First, the exam composition, what did you teach me?
I learned to fill in "writing" in my own specialty column since I was a child. This is because I have been writing "invincible" compositions in the examination room since I was a child. Elementary school read a lot of "excellent compositions" from junior high school, and junior high school read a lot of "excellent compositions" from senior high school. I know the solution to the problem, and I also know the writing mode. In a lot of extracurricular reading, I also learned to make the language beautiful. Therefore, my Chinese performance has always been very beautiful. I skillfully sorted out paragraph after paragraph of materials, even when I was in the senior high school entrance examination, I got the highest score in Chinese in the city by virtue of my strong composition mode. I was too proud to think about what I could learn from these compositions.
During the long period of middle school, I spent six years studying writing in the examination room. I am familiar with the model of "famous words+materials+arguments". The score depends on whose story is more "philosophical" and whose writing is more beautiful. The ability to choose words and make sentences can always be understood by reading more books. Materials rich in "philosophy" can always be found in some quick reading outlines of philosophy and metaphysics. All we have to do is be a porter, or at most a sewing worker, tinkering and writing an article. We misunderstood philosophy and "Ruan Yan Xuan Yuan, accumulated wisdom in Jun Qing". After finishing high school, many people completely lost confidence in the so-called "literature". We haven't had time to get started with real literature, and we have lost the minimum awe; Without awe, not to mention interest. Looking back at the composition in the examination room, it actually only taught me three things: first, to avoid "the sword is biased" and "unconventional". Second, "shorthand materials" and "not seeking answers" are appropriate. Third, take "ci" as the body and "thinking" as the use.
Enter the word "Exam Composition Example" on Baidu, and 103000 results will be displayed immediately. The so-called example is to let people take this as an example and refer to the meaning of writing. I often hear this conversation on the bus. Student A: "The teacher assigned another composition today." Student B: "Search online, we have everything. Anyway, we are definitely not as good as them. " I'm always surprised. When did our language come to such a state! I have never thought about it before, where can I describe it with articles? Copying thinking is a terrible thing. But nowadays, students often don't even copy their ideas when writing compositions, but directly use other people's articles. Stealing literature is elegant stealing, but unfortunately, students may not steal anything through patterned language. Even if you practice a good composition in the examination room, so what?
When we walked out of the ivory tower, we suddenly realized that we had never really learned anything from writing in this examination room. With the popularity of e-mail, many students can't even write letters, let alone IOUs, contracts, notices, posters, invitations and resumes. Chinese in middle school has left us too many shortcomings. I still remember when I was talking about practical writing, the teacher naturally skipped it. The reason is simple: no college entrance examination? What should we talk about? We have never done anything outside the outline before, but the outline can only lead us to the university at most, and can't promise to train us into a useful person, or even shape us into a person with basic practical writing ability. Chinese made us lose our way.
Another major drawback of patterned composition is that students write "harmony of all things". The mode of college entrance examination composition has somewhat imprisoned us, making "form is greater than content" a common problem. Students who have experienced that "black June" may take six years or even longer to get rid of the writing mode of college entrance examination composition; More likely, they don't want to mention pens anymore. It seems that the era of "poetry is based on emotion" has passed. First, the current teachers do not encourage students to write poems in the examination room; Second, even if written, this poem should serve the college entrance examination.
What the composition in the examination room taught me may be too profound for me to understand now. ...
Second, Chinese books, we have no choice.
When I was in high school, I always felt something in front of Chinese textbooks every night. At that time, many students said, why do you have to learn these texts? This problem has been bothering me for a long time. Our Chinese learning sometimes meets the "Gao Daquan" standard. Many foreigners admit that high school students in China are excellent. What is "awesome"? It is the so-called "literary common sense" that knows everything. The Russians are here. We can talk to them about Tolstoy and Chekhov. When I come, you can talk to them about Yasunari Kawabata and Natsume. When the British come, you can talk more about Shakespeare; It's a pity that we ancients can't come, otherwise we can start with the Book of Songs. But it seems that everything is a cursory tour, and it all comes and goes. Wait until the third year of high school to review before the wheel war and read the scriptures again and again.
In fact, I have been thinking, why can't I choose my favorite literary genre for selective reading teaching? I once read a cartoon in Xinmin Evening News. When many children walk into school together, their heads are represented by various abstract figures, including circles, squares, diamonds and triangles. But when they walked out of the school gate, all the children's heads became round. The painter's idea is simple. He wants to satirize the high recognition of school education now. We have used the same textbook since childhood. Even in the most diverse languages, the reading items are stipulated, and even the answers in the exam have clear deduction standards. At that time, many people asked: When snow melts in China, why can it only be water? Instead of turning into spring? We in China couldn't answer, so we had to laugh it off. Every student has his own appreciation standard for literary works, and cramming teaching is not good for students. Students make the same answer by being instilled with the same literary common sense, and finally judge their future position through the same paper. In this process, how many people have cultivated their love for literature? How many people began to hate literature? The answer is self-evident.
It is said that there is an elective course teaching mode in Zhejiang high schools, which is a great blessing for Chinese teaching. Students have the right to choose the Chinese knowledge module they are interested in for in-depth research study. Only in the eyes of many students, the weight of elective courses is still insignificant. Because in a busy high school, elective courses can be compressed at will. Students all know that the college entrance examination still dominates them. Life is easily changed because of the difference in college entrance examination scores. However, the influence of elective courses on them is hidden, and they have no way to detect it for a long time. The change of ideas may take a long time, but if our education can really give students some space to explore their interests; Let elective courses no longer be a form, but an entity that can really cultivate students' interest and improve their literary literacy. Therefore, in the long run, elective courses will make students more creative and make them go further.
Third, the conclusion
We think that college entrance examination has imprisoned us, topic composition has imprisoned us, Chinese textbooks have imprisoned us, and cramming teaching has imprisoned us. But I can't think of a better teaching model that can "lift the ban" on us. Perhaps "lifting the ban" is such a long way; Maybe all I can do is shout twice, hoping to attract the attention of "healing". I grew up following the inherent laws of the ivory tower, and I still follow these laws. I can't change anything, but I still want to say that my place is a birdcage painted with red paint. Want to come in outside, want to go out inside.