In fact, what is the starting line of life? There is a starting line everywhere in a person's life. Students face a new starting line every day, and more and more adults begin to accept the concept of lifelong education.
One of the charms of education is that you chase after me, and no one can always be the first. It doesn't matter if you fall behind for a while, just try to catch up. You are behind in this respect, and you can catch up in that respect; Fall behind today and catch up tomorrow; If you fall behind in primary school, you can catch up in middle school. If you fall behind in school, you can catch up in society ... Today, standing at the starting line, you are behind; Standing at the starting line tomorrow, you may be the winner.
Einstein once lost at the starting line of primary schools, middle schools and universities. He is not outstanding in primary school, middle school and university. He is a minor student, which gives teachers a headache. He was even expelled from middle school and admitted to the university one year after he resumed his studies, but all these did not prevent him from becoming a Nobel Prize winner and the greatest scientist in the 20th century.
It can be seen that "don't lose at the starting line of life" misleads parents with a static way of thinking, rather than looking at their children's lives with a developmental perspective. These people often use China's old saying "Look at the old at the age of three" to prove their correctness. If so, what education is needed! Who is the "three-year-old"? The great thinker Confucius? Great writer Cao Xueqin? Revolutionary leader Mao Zedong? Look at their growth experience. Who doesn't rely on social practice and acquired efforts to get the motivation for growth?
Success through unremitting efforts and success through lifelong education do not need to "win at the starting line", which has been repeatedly proved by the growth of countless people.
Successful education should be the success of many people who enjoy education, not just a few. Unfortunately, today, our parents in China seldom realize their children's educational success. When your child is the first in the class, the teacher tells you that it is not the first in the whole grade; When your child is the first in the whole grade, the teacher tells you that it is not the first in the whole school; When your child is the first in the school, the teacher tells you that it is not the first in the city. Then there is the province first, the country first, the world first, and there is only one world first, which may not be a child of China. According to this logic, all children in China have failed in education. Obviously, this is a fallacy, but this fallacy has broken the hearts of countless parents today for their children's education. It's really hard for parents in China to taste the taste of successful education! It is difficult to go to the sky!
Why don't children in China enjoy praise when they are young? Can't you enjoy the success of education from an early age? Can't go to school happily since childhood?
Comenius, born in 1592, is the first great idealist of modern education in the world. He once described school education as "a terrible experience for boys and a strangulation of their IQ." He believes that no one's intelligence is too poor to improve, and education should be universal and suitable for all children in society. However, some of our schools are still conducting IQ tests in public, ranking their achievements and carrying out punishment education. Can today's IQ test represent the IQ of tomorrow's children? Isn't today's ranking a personal insult to those children who are temporarily behind? Today, when the whole society advocates harmony and people-oriented, some people hold high the stick of feudalism and brazenly preach that "filial sons are born under the stick" and "soldiers who defeat others without fighting". Seriously speaking, this is a retrogression of educational thought! To say the least, just because there have been filial sons under sticks in history, today's children should not be threatened by sticks all their lives.
As the saying goes, "it takes ten years to plant trees, but it takes a hundred years to cultivate people." Education is a slow job, and what is needed is the spring breeze to moisten things quietly. The results of education are often invisible when a person receives education, but only when he enters the society and makes great or small contributions. Generally speaking, a student's usual grades and college entrance examination results can't reflect the educational achievements in essence. The former is the teacher's evaluation of students' understanding of knowledge, aiming at improving teaching and promoting backwardness. The latter is to select students for colleges and universities, and its greatest significance is selection, not who is higher or lower. Losers are not necessarily low-level. Throughout the ages, many successful people have fallen into Sun Shan, such as crossing the river. How many people can be remembered in "to beno. 1" at that time?
What education needs is "the scenery should be long and the horizon should be open." In the "marathon" of education, the starting line is everywhere, and the winners will be those who persevere and learn for life.