Many people around me are complaining that "money is too hard to earn these days, and nothing can be done to make money." In fact, there are indeed many industries and occupations facing ups and downs.
However, no matter how the economic environment changes, one industry keeps growing day by day. That is-education.
Over the past few years, various training institutions have emerged in an endless stream, including remedial classes, art special classes and sentiment training classes. Each institution is very popular and there is never a shortage of students to sign up.
But recently, the word "elite education" seems to have spread all over the country. It can be said that "North and South parents are United" is to train children into elites!
Yes, with the progress of the times and the development of society, the public's evaluation of talents has also changed. The former elite refers to those learning-oriented talents whose academic performance is far ahead, but now the elite needs not only an excellent performance, but also good comprehensive quality, such as interpersonal skills, adaptability and language expression ability. In other words, today's elite is the perfect combination of humanistic spirit, social responsibility, scientific quality and personality temperament.
In the eyes of parents, as long as children are trained in this way, they will have the opportunity to squeeze into the upper class and live a rich life in the future ... But elites do represent that group of outstanding people, who have better man-machine circles and more opportunities, but elites do not represent material wealth, and elite education does not represent material pursuit, let alone privilege pursuit. In my opinion, it should be children's own pursuit of life value, not parents' blind pursuit.
So now we often say, don't let "elite education" destroy the next generation, and don't let "elite education" destroy itself. Many parents mistakenly think that the so-called "elite education" is to let their children learn things that successful people on TV do, such as yoga, skiing and golf, but in fact it is just the opposite. What is presented to us on TV is only the fun and hobbies of the upper elite, and most of their living and working conditions have not yet been presented. Letting children learn blindly will not only cost a lot of money, but also make them develop an arrogant habit.
True "elite education", such as IB/AP education in Canada, eight famous universities in Australia and Japanese universities, all adopt the concept of "elite education", aiming at cultivating children into comprehensive talents with high ability and high accomplishment. In this educational model, children grow up through hands-on, practice and practice again and again. In addition to maintaining good grades in school, we have to sign up for new things and take various certificates ... In addition, many students take part-time jobs in winter and summer vacations to improve their practical ability while making money.
The real elite comes from the grassroots and can never leave the grassroots. Comparing the "elite education" modes in Australia, Canada and Japan, does our parents' blind "elite doll training plan" seem to put the cart before the horse? Doing the right things at the right age, cultivating elite dolls is to cultivate the elite's ability to do things, not the way of life, so that a child's own ability is not enough to support his or her living habits, which is how cruel it is for him or her.
For a family, "elite education" for children is not an easy task. Parents need to spend more time and energy to make a so-called business plan for their children and find better educational resources. The most realistic thing is, is your family's financial resources enough to support "elite education"? Better resources will inevitably mean spending more money, which will add a lot of burden to many families. Some people want their children to become "elites" even if they lose everything. I don't know what the result is, but this practice is really not worth promoting.
Furthermore, nowadays, it is often said in society that "don't be a gentleman's belly with the heart of a villain", that is, don't criticize a child because of his small shortcomings. It seems that the education model we are facing now is to cultivate all-rounders. For a student, only by keeping excellent grades in all subjects can he stand out and be recognized by others. And even if some children have a particularly outstanding skill, they can be said to be geniuses in that field. But if his grades are not good, there will still be no better development space, no more development opportunities or even no development opportunities, thinking that he will be eliminated if he can't develop in an all-round way, and those who are eliminated will have no chance to show themselves. That's how many professionals have been lost in the whole society. That is, people have been blindly pursuing and cultivating elites.
We might as well pay more attention to the next generation and find their unique bright spots instead of wasting time and energy to cultivate "elites". Elite is valuable and the price is higher. Tap children's real advantages and don't let elite education destroy our next generation.