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The Essence and Future Development of Education
Childhood growth and family life

Unless we have to, our families rarely let our children leave their parents at a very young age and live a boarding life at school. But in Britain, it is a kind of culture and tradition to let children enter boarding schools and live a student group life different from their families. However, behind the obvious differences in educational methods, there is the same educational belief: the growth experience of childhood is closely related to the happiness of an individual's life.

There is a saying: "Look at the old at the age of three, and look at the old at the age of seven." To some extent, this shows that the education of children and childhood is of great significance to the development of children's life. And the education in this growth stage is mainly family education. A person's present appearance is basically presented at the age of eight, and his personality, interests and intelligence are basically formed at the age of twelve.

British scientists began a large-scale family parenting research project in 1946 after the end of World War II. This research spans five generations, involving more than 70,000 families, collecting massive data and producing more than 6,000 academic papers and a large number of books. Family education also has many conclusions.

For example, the family environment has a great influence on children's growth. Children raised by poor parents, at the age of 3, are one year behind the children of rich families in educational tests. For example, having responsible and caring parents from an early age will broaden children's growth path. The growth of children does not depend entirely on their parents' educational level, but mainly on their love, care and support for their children. For example, develop the habit of listening to children and truly responding to them; Guide children to work and rest on time and develop good living habits; Instruct children to read for happiness; Teach children how to take care of themselves, how to get along with others and how to keep their body and mind happy. What parents do for their children is directly related to their future development.

The family and the school originally had a division of labor, and each assumed different educational responsibilities. Family is more about cultivating children's character, morality and habits, while school is mainly about imparting knowledge. However, as many parents let their children "study at home" and obtain various learning resources more conveniently, the division of labor between family and school will gradually fade and the functions will be integrated. Parents will be more involved in the school's curriculum construction and education, and schools will also play a greater guiding role in the field of family education.

The future education will present a new pattern. Family, society and school are closely linked through children's cooperation and co-education, which is an inevitable choice for education and social development in today's information age.

Simultaneous development of five educations and curriculum construction

No matter which country's education, its educational goal is the same. For individuals, it is to let themselves learn to survive in order to survive successfully in this ever-changing social environment. For society, it is to cultivate students into useful people, develop morally, intellectually, physically and artistically in an all-round way, and be able to shoulder the heavy responsibility of promoting social development.

Therefore, school education and teachers' work is not only to spread knowledge, but also to teach students to use learning tools and learn how to think. After entering the society, students will engage in different types of jobs. They need to learn not only general skills, but also various social skills, such as how to cooperate with others, how to have self-confidence, how to exert creativity, how to lead and be led.

The school curriculum needs to be rearranged. At present, the proportion of knowledge transfer courses is too large, and the "life" skills courses and practices related to students' going to society are too poor.

For example, global awareness, teamwork, the ability to experience different lives, creativity and investigation ability all need to be paid attention to in school curriculum construction. Schools should make full use of their autonomy in running schools and have new understanding and new thinking in curriculum construction.

For example, sports can not only strengthen the body, but also cooperate with others in sports, so that students can learn how to communicate with others and improve their emotional intelligence. This is very similar to ideological education. For example, dancing is an important means to practice balance and manners besides cycling, swimming and running. For boys, this kind of etiquette education is equivalent to girls taking ballet classes. Ballroom dancing can help students understand the role differences between men and women in interaction. When dancing, one side is dominant, the other side is dominated, and the active and passive roles are interpreted between push and pull.

For example, art courses are not limited to art and music, and art education should be combined with more modern forms of communication. Great changes have taken place in the world, and 3/4 of all the information we get comes from visual media, such as TV, Internet and movies. The innovation of art curriculum itself is very important. Schools should offer courses related to the interpretation of visual images and teach the methods of making movies. They should not only teach children how to edit and shoot movies and put them on the Internet, but also instruct students how to share them through the Internet. Let all parties realize that art is not only an ancient form of communication, but also crucial to our growing visual civilization.

Scientific and Technological Innovation and the Future of Education

With the rapid development of information technology and artificial intelligence, some unimaginable educational scenes have entered schools and classrooms, such as adaptive learning platforms, intelligent assistants and augmented reality technology ... They are quietly changing the structure of schools and the ecology of education while improving the efficiency of education and teaching. From the perspective of cultural communication, human beings have entered the fifth data age from spoken language, writing, printing and film.

We should pay attention to the influence of information and technology on education. First of all, the influence of technology on education depends on the way technology is used. It does not replace or destroy the existing system, but adds new dimensions and depth. Just like our understanding of students' learning, it used to be mainly a paper test. Now, because of technology, a lot of process information and empirical data have been added, the dimension has been greatly expanded, and data mining is profound enough. Secondly, how technology is applied to education and how to get along with technology in life is a problem that needs attention today. We should let technology promote the change of educational methods and promote the change of teaching and learning, but at the same time, we should prevent it from becoming a slave of technology.

Third, the traditional top-down teaching model is being replaced by the bottom-up learning model. Most people can get the knowledge they need through the Internet. Therefore, teachers' teaching methods must be changed to be student-centered or student-oriented. Teachers will become promoters, instructors and mentors, not knowledge bases.

Lifelong learning will become everyone's learning belief, and persistent self-education learning mode will become the norm.

Schools will be everywhere, and their forms and functions will undergo great changes. It will become a hub with multiple functions, not an exclusive center. On the basis of inheriting the advantages of the current paper-and-pencil examination, the future education evaluation will also test the abilities of art, craft, games, music, computer and network literacy, social skills and so on.