1June, 979, China sent a delegation to the United States to inspect primary education. After returning to China, the delegation wrote a 30,000-word report describing what the delegation saw and heard: "American students, regardless of their moral quality and ability, are cocky and full of ambition, meaning' I am extraordinary because of what I have done'. Students in the second grade of primary school are illiterate and can add and subtract. Stress, health and beauty, but light numbers, light reason and light culture. Whether in public or private schools, music, sports and beauty activities are in full swing, while mathematics, science and culture are ignored; The classroom is almost out of control. The students are winking, chatting or crossing their legs. What's more, like shopping, I am swaying in the classroom. " From this, the delegation reached the following conclusions-

"American primary education is a terminal disease. It is foreseeable that in another 20 years, China's science and technology and culture will inevitably catch up with and surpass this so-called superpower. "

Interestingly, in the same year, as an exchange visit, the United States also sent a delegation to China. After visiting several schools in Beijing, Shanghai and Xi 'an, they also wrote down their own experiences: "Primary school students in China like to put their hands on their chests in class, and they will not change easily unless the teacher answers the questions correctly; Kindergarten students like to put their hands behind their backs, except outdoor activities; Students in China like to get up early. Before seven o'clock, students are the most common people in the streets of China. They like to eat breakfast while walking. Students in China have an assignment called Homework. According to a teacher in China, it is a continuation of homework at home. China called the students with the highest test scores the best students. By the end of the semester, you will usually get a certificate, and others will be gone. " In conclusion, the American delegation wrote

"The students in China are the most diligent in the world. They get up the earliest and go to bed the latest; Their academic performance is the best compared with that of students of the same grade in any country in the world. It is foreseeable that in another 20 years, China will inevitably leave the United States far behind in science and technology culture. "

History played a joke on the Chinese and American delegations. Twenty-five years later, the terminally ill education system in the United States has trained 43 Nobel Prize winners and 197 knowledge-based billionaires, but there is no school in China that has trained such talents.

Every child has a unique talent. Our school only recognizes one kind, that is, the talent of writing the knowledge instilled in them in class on the test paper. American schools admit that children have their own talents and let them try their best to publicize their talents in education.

Why are the estimates of the two delegations completely consistent and completely wrong? What's the problem? No matter from the emotional or historical point of view, foreigners certainly can't understand the painstaking efforts of China's parents: How did generations of parents in China devote all their unfulfilled wishes to their children, and even devote their remaining goals to success? So, unconsciously, China's parents unconsciously became poets familiar to even primary school students.

Even today, foreign guests visiting China are often taken to kindergartens, primary schools and middle schools. To the surprise of foreigners, children in China are as organized and disciplined as soldiers. Children sit up straight, and teachers ask almost the same questions, which is the only standard answer. Naivety and naivety are hard to find. Today's foreigners have different views from the American delegation 27 years ago. They even accused Mr. China of being cruel and strangling children.

Who will educate China's education seems to be an urgent problem. Establishing a correct view of education and children's success is a responsibility that cannot be ignored for both the education department and parents. Perhaps what we urgently need to do now is not to help children improve their test scores, but how to make children grow up healthily, enjoy life and create life.

What's the difference between China and America? In my opinion, education in the United States is full of humanistic accomplishment, while education in China is actually just a simple training. There is a saying: The biggest difference between education and training is that education is not only imparting knowledge, but also gestating a steady stream of human resources. Training is just one of the most basic educational methods. In the military training in China, children only imitate the behavior of adults in the process of mastering knowledge, and they dare not and are not good at developing their own innovative thinking, because once they violate the routine, they are likely to be reprimanded and doubted for no reason. America is different. They dare to let students play freely, imagine freely and innovate freely. The most intuitive feeling is the "chaotic" classroom, in which they have trained many Nobel Prize winners.

If Bill Gates, the president of Microsoft, dropped out of high school and lived in China, there would be no "herding sheep" in American education. Only with China's "sticking to the rules", there would be no Microsoft Windows inspection operating system which is popular all over the world today, and there would be no well-known Microsoft Office software today. Therefore, the educational reform in China is an inevitable trend, but the traditional educational system has formed a deep-rooted concept, and the reform must be hard and hard. We should completely get rid of the disadvantages brought by traditional education from the deep level and the essence of education, otherwise it will not be a problem for us to lag behind developed countries for half a century.