However, "Don't lose at the starting line" has become a resounding slogan in the past 20 years, which has a great "market". The reason is worth pondering. This is because the basic education in China is "competitive education" as a whole. First, education in China plays a strong role in changing the "identity" and "fate" of the educated, which is a small channel for rural children and children from poor families to rise. If you run slowly in this kind of education, it is likely that it will be difficult to squeeze into the ranks that can change your destiny. Secondly, China's entrance examination system implements a single score evaluation. There is no doubt that if you study early, study deeply and learn a lot, you may gain a competitive advantage in the score test. In this evaluation system, in fact, there is no need for training institutions to concise the moving slogan of "don't lose at the starting line", even parents themselves will think so. All the other children have already attended the training class, but my child can't pass the exam.
The above two reasons are external to education and internal to education. In China, due to the household registration system and social welfare security system, every citizen's social welfare security is unequal, so is his social status. Education has become a tool to change citizens' household registration and obtain better welfare protection. There is a saying in China education that "knowledge changes fate". This is a huge difference between education in China and education in Europe and America. Their education does not have this important function of changing people's status and destiny, because there is no household registration problem, no difference in social welfare security, and even the difference in treatment between industries and posts is not very big. Therefore, education pays more attention to the development and perfection of individuals, rather than the life-and-death competition between individuals to seize the opportunity to change their destiny and gain a higher social status. Many effective education methods in Europe and America will be different in China, which is closely related to the external environment of education.
The score evaluation system in the entrance examination also corresponds to this external educational environment. From the public point of view, although this evaluation system has obvious disadvantages, it is a relatively fair "selection" means, just like a track and field competition. You can win or lose in minutes, and everyone has nothing to say. Once other evaluation factors are involved, it may lose fairness because of the entanglement of interests, blocking all the few channels through which rural children, children from poor families and children from ordinary families can change their destiny. However, in China's large and medium-sized schools, there is no hope for the public to evaluate students fairly, and there is no factor of power and interest. On the contrary, due to the serious administrative nature of running a school, the public is very uneasy about the school.
It can be said that if these two reasons persist, the pattern of "competitive education" in China will be difficult to change, and there will be a great market for "not losing at the starting line". To this end, we must further promote education reform. From the external environment of education, education reform is definitely not an internal education reform, but a national education reform. A series of unreasonable systems that affect citizens' rights, such as education development and personnel training, should be reformed, including household registration system and social household registration security system. If these systems are not adjusted, the instrumental color of education will be difficult to fade, so that education will no longer assume non-educational functions and it will be extremely difficult to return to the essence of education.
In the field of education, it is particularly important to clearly define the rights and responsibilities of educational organizers, managers, school-runners, educators, educatees and social education and training institutions. As the government department in charge of education, its basic duty is to ensure educational investment and supervise schools to run schools according to law, but obviously, our government has not fulfilled these two duties well, resulting in a serious imbalance in educational development and an endless stream of illegal schools. Fundamentally speaking, only when the schools in the compulsory education stage are roughly balanced, even if the external environment has not changed much, parents' ideas will change obviously, and there is no need to force their children to go to kindergarten, good primary school and good junior high school.
Is life a sprint? Is it a long-distance race? No, life is a marathon-no one has run a marathon, because they will never "lose at the starting line".
Every parent wants their children to grow up healthily and happily.
Before pregnancy, mothers always thought that it was best for my child to have big eyes and grow tall, but with the birth of the child. There is only one idea in our hearts, that is, the child is healthy and safe, and we will love her regardless of gender and big eyes. Children grow up slowly, and our utilitarianism and comparison are constantly expanding. Because you are not satisfied with your work, you must let your children surpass you in the future. When you see someone else's children admitted to a key high school, you are busy enrolling your children in an Olympic math class. Seeing that the child next door was admitted to Peking University, he was busy enrolling in various cram schools for his children.
My little nephew is 7 years old and in the first grade. He signed up for several courses, including Olympics, chess, English and piano. Make up lessons every day after school, and the schedule is full on Saturday and Sunday. That time, I accompanied him downstairs for a stroll, and heard him and his classmates say that I have time now and go to piano lessons in the afternoon. Sometimes young people are feeling, alas, this holiday is more tiring than going to school.
Many parents are also very helpless. There are 30 children in one class, and 25 are making up lessons. Children who don't make up lessons can't keep up, and they don't like learning. Therefore, everyone wants children to study ahead of time to avoid "losing at the starting line", but the academic burden is too heavy and the children's time is full, which brings not the problem of fast and slow competition, but the problem of going astray or running counter to the original road. The mission of the interest class is to send children to famous schools and be better than others. Yes, your children are versatile because they have taken many interest classes, but they don't like their hobbies.
Children's growth has its own rules.
3 years old is the period of children's intuitive thinking, and when they are 5 years old, they will have the ability to think in images. Children in kindergarten classes begin to germinate logical thinking, and 8- 12 years old is the best period of memory.
Experts in preschool education say that many children now start to learn roller skating at the age of three. In fact, the child's bones are not well developed. Not only will you not exercise your balance, but you will hurt your health. Learning to paint too early is also a natural strangulation of children. This is especially true when learning dance. It is a challenge for children to learn to dance when their periosteum is too small. Fang Xiaofeng, a professor at Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, said at an academic conference: "There are eight apples and several colors, the purpose is to take the exam." The direct consequence is that students have strong fund-raising ability and weak expression ability, and of course they can't become masters.
Children begin to observe and copy from the perspective of adults around the age of 8. Before that, children's painting was only the self-expression of intuitive thinking. Let children learn painting skills and tell them that the sun should be round and the clouds should be white, not to mention that this is a curb on imagination, at least it is a waste of time. "Let imaginative and creative children remember Chinese characters and recite the addition within 100. Children don't understand, but they can do it. What are the consequences? The imaginary space is full of solidified knowledge. "
Are children who study in advance really better than other children?
Not necessarily, for example, children who know more Chinese characters in kindergarten will be ahead of other children in the first grade, but in the second grade, their level will be the same as other children. "Many children practice to level 10, but swear never to touch the piano again. They don't think music is a lifelong companion, but a boring course that takes away their play time. " A teacher who specializes in teaching piano said helplessly. "Don't let children lose at the starting line" is a slogan invented by shrewd businessmen. And how many parents, because they have high hopes for their children, because they are expecting their children's success, most of their childhood memories are in various interest classes except classes.
No one has ever robbed a marathon.
Is life a sprint? Is it a long-distance race? No, life is a marathon-no one has run a marathon, because they will never "lose at the starting line". So children, so parents, please don't be impatient, please follow the law of children's growth and take your time. However, in the minds of many parents, letting their children grow up slowly is probably the most anxious thing at present. Spring will blossom, autumn will bear fruit, so is the law of nature, and so is the child. Their maturity takes time to hone. The life of those little prodigies is not always smooth sailing. An expert put it well: "If you start running fast from kindergarten, you need to run in kindergarten for three years, in primary school for six years, in middle school for three years, and then you will be exhausted when you get to college, and everyone wants to have a rest." So you see that China university students lack stamina, which is the reason. "Therefore, we should not keep urging our children, but give them some time appropriately. They also need to catch their breath and move on. .....