"After the 20th century, the most basic goal of western education reform is to change further education and subject-centered education into life-oriented education, which is the education advocated by Mr. Tao Xingzhi to prepare for life. This means cultivating citizens in the future society, cultivating citizens' ability and morality, and cultivating their ability as social professionals-all these are important goals of school education. At present, school education in China lacks many things. Under the framework of exam-oriented education, things like life education, life education and ecological education can't get in. If key schools are abolished in compulsory education, children can have a lot of time to deal with themselves: rest time, imagination time, game time and extracurricular reading time, and their space can be completely opened. "Failure 1: Children have no time to play and rest, and are forced to go through nightmare extracurricular study to get more certificates. Now, children are learning Olympiad, computer and English ... They are doing math problems that college math professors can't do, and they are taking the national adult English exam ... Children have no time to play and rest, and are forced to go through nightmare extracurricular study and get more certificates. In order to show that they are better than other children, they have strengthened their chips and given themselves the opportunity to be selected by key middle schools and become key top students all the way. [Interpretation] China has been implementing the elite education model, establishing a key primary and secondary school system, selecting a few outstanding students from the losers who have eliminated the most, and transporting outstanding talents for colleges and universities. At that time, the function of basic education was defined like this. Initially, the education of teenagers included three aspects-exercising healthy body, cultivating sound personality and learning professional skills or vocational skills. Now, under the guidance of school choice education mode, everyone thinks that scores and enrollment rate are the most important, so we think that the best student is the champion of the college entrance examination. Recently, a survey published on the Internet shows that the performance of the top candidates in the college entrance examination is not satisfactory. Far below the expectations of society. Have you ever thought that getting into college by college entrance examination is not the focus of your life? It doesn't matter whether a person gets a doctorate at the age of 25 or becomes a professor at an American university at the age of 27. What matters is whether you have achieved anything at 40. Life is not a sprint, but a marathon. Failure 2: China's children have the longest learning time and the deepest learning level. Why can't the best talents be produced under this educational model? In fact, premature orientation education and excessive early education have overdrawn teenagers' health, curiosity and imagination. If you want to train a marathon runner, you must be in good health first, then you must have willpower and endurance, and you must also have the ability to plan the overall situation and have strategies and tactics to arrange your physical strength. Therefore, running fast is nothing to an excellent marathon runner, who needs higher comprehensive quality. In this race of life, academic performance is nothing, but attitude, emotion, will and personality are more important, which are difficult to cultivate in a gifted children's institution or key school. Failure 3: Now preschool education and early education are full of tricks. They are all under the banner of cultivating prodigies and developing intelligence, claiming that they can't let their children lose at the starting line. Will children lose at the starting line? This is the biggest trick. The parents who were fooled were nervous and asked their children to recite Tang poetry at the age of two and learn English at the age of three. If you want to understand that life is a long marathon, the starting line is a race against time, and it doesn't make sense for anyone who is anxious or slow in the first two laps. The first runner in a marathon is often not the ultimate winner. In addition, I hope parents can understand that it is not important for primary schools to choose schools. For primary school students, the most important thing is family education. To be clear abroad, parents are the most important teachers for children. American schools stipulate that primary schools finish school at 2: 30 and parents must pick up their children. This leaves time for family education. Schools can only provide all children with the same education, and each child is different. Only parents can provide personalized and differentiated education, which puts parents' educational choice in the first place. In foreign countries, parent-child reading is highly valued, and various parent-child reading books are specially prepared for parents and children to read together. On the one hand, reading can enhance parent-child affection; on the other hand, parents can cultivate children's values, emotional attitudes and conduct through their words and deeds. However, in China, parents do not hesitate to spend money and manpower to get their children into good schools. At the same time, they also think that sending their children to school has completed the task, and they can play mahjong and watch TV dramas, giving up their parents' educational responsibilities. Failure 4: Today's children often become plastic children, who like to live in the virtual world and enjoy summing up and computer games. In modern society, it is very important for children to relax themselves in the natural environment. Nowadays, children often become plastic children and like to live in a virtual world. In contrast, they need to experience the happiness gained in natural life, observe animals, insects and plants in the wild and understand life. In addition, from the perspective of learning, we must first cultivate children's interest in reading and reading. If children love reading, they will establish a learning orientation and be more reassuring. Secondly, it is necessary to measure whether children have the ability of self-development, that is, whether they have formed their own unique interests. Why do you say that it is not appropriate to give children directions too early is to prevent parents' educational choices from obscuring their own interest choices, but to create various conditions for children to spontaneously see what they are interested in at the age of one to two grades, such as liking history, and they will take the initiative to look for history books. Failure 5: Many people graduate from graduate school and still don't know what they like. what do you want to do? I don't know what my real interests and abilities are. Explaining and analyzing the process of education is a process of self-discovery for everyone. Education enables everyone to find themselves and be the best of themselves. The purpose of education is not to cultivate the same kind of people. It doesn't matter if I evaluate a middle school student who doesn't look at his grades at all and can't get into Tsinghua Peking University. The key is whether you have a real dream or something you really want to do. You are willing to spend all your time and energy pursuing this kind of thing. For example, the daughter of an old classmate of mine went to an idle junior college; She studies economic management, while she likes playing basketball in her spare time. My classmate is very depressed and thinks that a girl's obsession with basketball is meaningless and a complete waste of time. And this girl' because she likes basketball, she made a basketball website, which is very popular. After graduation, she was hired by sports media and got a good salary return. Can such a story make us realize that people only need to do what they like and discover their abilities and potentials? You can be a valuable person. The purpose of education is to make people know themselves better. In 2030, the children's future war after the Millennium "I finally can't hold on!" "A friend once vowed that he would never let all kinds of cram schools and intensive classes deprive his son of the fun of his childhood, but he finally surrendered. The growth process of a new generation of China people is very similar to the games they are playing. They can't easily pass the entrance examinations of famous schools, super-long classes, olympiad, piano, painting and college entrance examination. They are the luckiest and most unfortunate generation in the history of China. Parents are worried that what they teach at school will not be enough in the future, so they want to add more crazily. In the face of future wars after the Millennium, it seems that there are not enough weapons in reserve. In 2030, China will become the largest economy in the world. At least that's what mainstream economists predict. Let us realize this beautiful vision. It's just that for some people in China, it's not the scenery that comes with it, but anxiety. By then, China's demographic dividend will be exhausted, China's unique inverted pyramid population structure will make every parent worry, and the recovery of their children's investment will be in the foreseeable future. The anxiety of parents at present. This is a preview of future competitive pressure. At present, the double dilemma of high education cost and low employment situation undoubtedly aggravates this anxiety and leads to a vicious circle. What kind of Latino is the most populous in the United States in 2030? It is likely that the Latino president will be in power. In other words, when dealing with the United States, we should not only speak fluent English, but also consider Spanish. The Japanese population is no longer a pure Yamato nation, just as Germany today is no longer a pure Germanic nation, and the German president in 2030 is not without Turkish descent. India's population will reach 65.438+0.4 billion, with a young and creative population structure. The "Indian Century" will rise with the rising of the sun. The world population will approach 8 billion, showing the phenomenon of "silver hair", the population structure is aging, the social "support" cost is rising, and the population productivity is declining. Countries that live longer than 100 years will appear. Biomedical science and technology will launch "smart drugs" to truly prescribe the right medicine and prevent problems before they happen. Cars, microwave ovens and even shoes can all be Internet receiving terminals, which can receive information anytime and anywhere. Global temperature rise causes sea level to rise by 6 to 1 1 cm. Humans will suffer more storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, and frequent severe droughts and floods. What's the good forecast for China in 2030? China will become the world's largest economy, and China's total economic output will surpass that of the second-ranked United States by 50% and be twice that of the third-ranked Indian. The bad prediction is that the sex ratio of China population is unbalanced, and 40 million bachelors will not find wives. Mail-order transnational brides to North Korea or Vietnam is a new fashion. In 2030, the demographic dividend will soon be exhausted, and the number of elderly people over 60 in China is expected to increase to about 400 million, equivalent to the total population of EU 15 countries. At present, 15 laborers support 1 elderly, and 3.3 laborers support 1 elderly. A son cannot be "filial" and a father cannot be "kind". Nursing homes will become the largest service industry in China. The family structure of "842 1" (eight old people, four parents, two young people plus 1 child) has overwhelmed millennials. There is a strong smell of old people in society, and any social change will be stubbornly resisted. At the same time, the anger of "preferring the old not to be a thief" spread among the younger generation. There will be more than ten mega-cities such as China, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. On the one hand, people in big cities are busy crossing the ocean, on the other hand, they refuse to do bottom jobs. No one applied for some jobs, and young people changed from not being able to find jobs to not wanting to work, so the phenomenon of "farmers going to cities" appeared. It can be seen that migrant workers were, are and will be the engines to promote China's economic and social development. Buying a house is no longer difficult, but selling a house and renting a house has become a problem. The house will fight a price war like an electrical appliance. Buy one and get one free, buy big and get small, because every new generation has more than three houses (grandfather's 1 set, parents' 1 set or childless aunt's 1 set, and own 1 set). The post-80s generation will face a future of providing for the elderly and will grow old forever after the Millennium. The world they face is hotter, flatter and more crowded, and it is very valuable to be able to deal with their own problems. The troubles of children who grew up after thousands of years are right. They are the people born in the first decade of the new century who believe that "happiness means that cats eat fish, dogs eat meat, and Altman beats monsters". Those who grew up watching Japanese cartoons, those who love to assemble cars since childhood, those who regard KFC and McDonald's as delicious seafood and delicacies, and those who recite Disciples, San Zi Jing and New Oriental English. Now all parents' efforts may go to the opposite side. It's like learning the piano too much, but playing the erhu has become a scarce program. The homogenization of various personal skills still exists today. What's more, it only pays attention to the cultivation of individual skills and ignores teamwork, and unifying opinions has become the primary problem for children after the Millennium. As a group, they may not achieve anything great. After the Millennium, we are completely on the same competitive platform with our foreign counterparts. Americans have been trained since childhood to look up information, write papers with independent opinions, and deal with life problems independently in camping; China people learn standard answers from childhood, and they need adults to accompany them in exams, camping and job hunting. They feel inferior. They hate their parents and teachers for educating them like this. Nowadays, education has become a profit machine, which has eliminated many Bill Gates and destroyed many seeds of entrepreneurship. From primary school to university, the extreme of indoctrination education is that students only face a "standard answer"-this is the laziest teaching method of teachers. Not only in the system, but also in private schools. The unified educational control with the college entrance examination makes China people lack independent thinking and imagination, and it is an inevitable result that there is no Nobel Prize winner. What should education bring to students in the 2 1 century? Take Harvard as an example, I hope students can: first, explore the world by themselves; Second, establish curiosity about knowledge; Third, have the ability to query and solve problems; Fourth, be able to communicate the found solutions with others; Fifth, cultivate creativity and look at problems in new ways. None of these five items seems to be in the current education system in China. For a long time, there have been two sets of talent evaluation systems in China: one is current educational institutions+institutions within the system, and the other is western-style education+multinational companies; The evaluation index of private enterprises is only "practical". It is said that children of cadres or professors at or above the division level in Peking University and Tsinghua are mostly sent abroad. The highest institutions of higher learning in China are still so, not to mention the failed education system in China, which is still cultivating a batch of college students with high scores and low abilities who finally can't find jobs. Primary and secondary schools still collect money in various names. Schools are busy charging for various excuses, so how to educate students well. Critics of the current education system believe that what should be taught most is moral education and aesthetic education, not skills. We are cultivating a group of educated and uneducated offspring. Being admitted to a university may not necessarily lead to a good job. The college entrance examination is not as good as direct employment If you can, you can choose to study abroad directly. This year, China people voted with their feet, indicating that they are losing confidence in the current education. But more people are helpless. Boycott is better than obeying the college entrance examination, which is a meat grinder and an Olympic Games. Just like that "finally unbearable" friend, surrender to the powerful reality. China also has the common sense that "it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish" since ancient times. A responsible teacher knows how to teach is more important than what to teach. You know, by 2030, imagination is more important than knowledge. When knowledge lets computers do it for you, what society lacks is imagination to get out of trouble. Methods are more important than knowledge, which is inexhaustible, but there are only a few methods. Many years later, the students forgot what the teacher said, but they couldn't forget his teaching methods. Mentality is more important than ability. If you don't know how to cooperate, no matter how many intensive courses you take, you can't compete with the teams of Americans, Indians and even Vietnamese. At present, economists call for innovative economic growth model, otherwise it will be difficult for China to extricate itself from this crisis. Considering the international and domestic competition that children will face in 2030 after the Millennium, it is inevitable to change the current education model. " If your law has reduced you to this point, will it still work? "This sentence comes from the American film No Country for Old Men, which is also applicable to the fathers of China today. Tang Zhigang reads China's Fairy Tales. When I was a child, I lived in a military kindergarten, and later I lived in the army. I remember when I was 3 to 5 years old, I was completely dominated by the collective consciousness. I went to the toilet, went to the infirmary to see a doctor, blew the light, and fell asleep. I have to put on all my clothes and take off all my clothes. The army is a place to eliminate individuality and establish groups, and I have always lived in such a standardized atmosphere. Just like today's children, they grew up in a unified mode of education. Teachers, parents, media ... are instilling in children the same values as crossing a single-plank bridge. This kind of power is so great that children are squeezed into one kind of people. In the animal world, every monkey group has a different tribe, but we humans basically have no tribe now, and every child is the same. There are no rural children and no military children. The children in this street are different from those in that street. These children who have received the same education should have a conscious time in junior high school and senior high school when they grow up. When they find that they can't adapt to the social world of teenagers, they will reflect the feelings of escape, rebellion and confrontation. These have a great influence on his growth. I have been teaching children to draw for 8 years, and always treat children aged 5 to 10 as peers. I believe they understand everything in the adult world. I also believe that a child is a rotten potato, which can germinate wherever it is thrown and should grow in different environments. It is impossible for adults to sow dragon seeds and harvest fleas. The growth chain of China people is from birth to study, from further education to graduation, from starting a family to starting a business. Reading is getting earlier and earlier, getting married is getting later and later, it is getting harder and harder to find a job after graduation, and the anxiety of starting a business hangs over everyone. China people pay more attention to children and education than ever before. 54.7% parents require their children to get a doctorate, and 83.6% parents require their children to have 15 students before the exam. Parents are rushing around in the quagmire of choosing schools, accompanying students and paying fees. Under the pressure of taking the exam, becoming a talent and choosing a job, preschool education is hot and employment is cold. At the beginning of education, regardless of the sky-high price, I was afraid of falling behind and hoped my son would become Jackie Chan. At the end of education, fierce competition makes learning difficult, and few people care-China's social and economic operation is seriously out of touch with education. The current education model is bent on making children "talents", regardless of whether children become "people". China's parents are both masterminds and accomplices, designers and submitters of educational models, buyers and complainants of educational industries and businesses, vested interests and victims, tyrants and slaves in front of children who cannot be adults. In the name of "for children", parents are miserable. Children can't become adults-this is not love, but the black humor of the whole society.