Generally speaking, there are three main ways to educate a person's knowledge and ability, one is practical education, the other is example education, and the third is language education. These three means of education have their own irreplaceable functions in the whole education system, and correspondingly, no matter which means of education, they also have their own insurmountable limitations, which need to be compensated by the other two kinds of education. Therefore, when the whole education system can realize the mutual connection and complementarity of these three kinds of education, it will also realize what we often call quality education!
And what about our exam-oriented education now? In fact, it is an education system based on character education, that is, it is not contradictory to quality education. On the contrary, it is a part of quality education, and the reason why our education still stays in exam-oriented education lies in the insufficient division of labor between practical education and example education.
Why is this? Take school education as an example. Generally speaking, schools are relatively closed units. Without social support, it is impossible to provide comprehensive and systematic practical education. In addition, in the aspect of role model education, school teachers can only do some public role models, but lack energy for personal role model education. Therefore, school education is originally a unit based on text education. As for practice and example, she can only provide part of it, so it is unfair and unfair to put all the problems of exam-oriented education on schools and education departments.
So who should bear the main responsibility of practice and example education? The answers are social education and family education. Quality education is not a school matter, but the result of the joint action of society, family and school. But unfortunately, the resources, technology and means we currently have can only meet the operation of school education. As for social education and family education, it is beyond our power. Take family education as an example. We can't guarantee that all parents can set a good example for their children, or even that parents without families have enough energy and time to accompany their children, just like parents in rural areas. Therefore, education reform also needs the development of our social productive forces to a certain extent as a prerequisite. Therefore, education in China is not unwilling to reform, but unconditionally reformed.
There are still many people in China who have a wrong understanding of education. They always think that education in developed countries is quality education, while education in China is backward. In fact, the real quality education is not only that we have not realized it, but also that in western developed countries. Compared with our education, the education in some developed countries can provide more practical education, but the corresponding basic education based on character education is worse than ours. Some relaxed education even proved to be a failure education, such as "liberal education" in Japan, whose "relaxed generation" has become a derogatory term in today's Japanese society.
In addition, in the past, compared with developed countries, our country was short of innovative enterprises, innovative products or innovative talents, so many of us naturally attributed the reason to exam-oriented education, which is actually a big misunderstanding. It is true that exam-oriented education is not suitable for cultivating innovative talents to a certain extent, but the problem is that Korean and Japanese families adjacent to us are also exam-oriented education (Japan later gave up exam-oriented education and engaged in loose education, which proved to be a failure), and they have become innovative powers, so you can still blame them. Obviously, there are other reasons why we have not become an innovation power. What is the reason? First of all, innovation doesn't mean that you can make a name for yourself with the spirit of innovation. It also needs sufficient capital and technology accumulation as the foundation. Without this foundation, you can play innovation! That would be tantamount to playing suicide. As we all know, before the reform and opening up, our country was blocked by the western economy and technology for decades, and the accumulation of capital and technology was certainly not as good as that of Japan and South Korea. If you want to catch up quickly, you can only play reverse engineering, so it is natural to be relatively backward in the 1980 s and 1990 s. However, since the reform and opening up 40 years ago, we have many innovative enterprises such as Xiaomi and Huawei, which have narrowed the gap with developed countries bit by bit, and exam-oriented education is not what it used to be.
Also, in terms of talents, it does not mean that our education cannot cultivate innovative talents. It's just that man struggles upwards and water flows downwards. In the 1980s and 1990s, due to the relatively backward economic environment and treatment, most of the outstanding talents trained by the country went abroad, which is why we saw the shortage of talents. For example, in Silicon Valley of the United States, engineers from China and India account for a large proportion! However, with the growth of national economy and treatment, high-quality talents have returned in recent years.
Most of all, I hope my answer can help the landlord.