Harvard, 4: 30 a.m.

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At 4 o'clock in the morning, the library of Harvard University was brightly lit and packed. ...

This photo circulating on the Internet is shocking.

Harvard has 33 Nobel Prize winners, and seven American presidents are elected by Harvard. What kind of potential does a person have? Why can people's dreams come true at Harvard?

Xie Juan, the producer of CCTV's World Famous University, once took the film crew to Harvard University for an interview.

She recalled: "When we arrived at Harvard University, it was already 2 o'clock in the middle of the night, but to our surprise, the whole campus was brightly lit. This is a city that never sleeps. There are many students reading in restaurants, libraries and classrooms. The strong learning atmosphere infected us at once. At Harvard, students study day and night. "

A girl from Peking University who is studying at Harvard said that her reading in one week is the reading in Peking University in one year, and Harvard has a large amount of homework. "We spend a lot of time reading books and previewing cases after class. Every class needs to do a lot of preparation in advance, and the preparation before class is sufficient to communicate with people in the classroom. Otherwise, it will not be able to integrate into classroom teaching. "

The study pressure of Harvard students also comes from the elimination mechanism of the school. On average, about 20% of Harvard students drop out of school every year because they fail exams or are dissatisfied with their credits. Moreover, the evaluation of the eliminated 20% students is not completed at the end of the semester, and the speech scores should be recorded in each class, accounting for 50% of the total scores on average, which requires students to exert themselves evenly and not relax.

At Harvard, not only students but also teachers are under pressure. In Harvard class, everything the teacher is asked to say is new. Harvard believes that a professor should be a scholar first, who can enjoy challenges and innovations and communicate convincingly with others.

Professor Qiu Chengtong, a tenured professor at Harvard University, said: In contrast, the university life of college students in China is too easy. We always talk about how much children in China have suffered for the college entrance examination. In fact, in the United States, college is the hardest time, while children in China suddenly relax when they go to college. Their relaxed four years happened to be the most diligent four years for American college students, and also the golden four years for saving life energy. Therefore, the United States has always been the country with the most high-tech talents in the world.

Teacher Lu, a teacher studying in the United States, said that China students were far behind American students in universities. Its root lies in our basic education.

American elementary schools are misers of knowledge. They strictly limit the amount of knowledge that children can acquire, and only allow children to acquire one knowledge a month. In this process, hands-on, thinking and feeling are more important than knowledge itself. Children are always curious about knowledge.

China's primary education is a greedy ghost, who regards knowledge as free gold jewelry. Educators in China don't know the relationship between knowledge and wisdom, and always let children get more and more knowledge directly. The cleverness of American education lies in: let children feel and think first, and then acquire knowledge, and then knowledge becomes wisdom; Because at the beginning, knowledge is particularly simple, it is easier to gain insight, and knowledge is easy to become wisdom. Wisdom is actually what we often say about creativity.

In high school, American schools cultivate the habit of autonomous learning. High schools in China are crammed by teachers, which makes students accustomed to dependence. The gap between ability and habit makes China students and American students choose different lifestyles and attitudes in college. Harvard students say that studying in Harvard is intense and they have little sleep. It is a great challenge to their will to feel in purgatory. But if you get through it, no matter how big the difficulties in the future, you can overcome them. And college students in China, thinking that they have finally got rid of the shackles, can do whatever they want. So, I spent a lot of time on things other than studying. We stopped working when it was time to study. It is doomed that our college students will be left further and further.

(koni is taken from Yangcheng Evening News/Crane)