The reason why we ordinary people are interested in celebrities is to learn a little experience from their growth process and borrow his mountain stone to attack our own "stubborn jade".
A person's growth from an ordinary child to an admirable hero is closely related to the education of his or her parents; but sometimes we often ignore the contribution of family education to a person's development and attribute all this to his talent.
Although talent is an important prerequisite for the success of a talent, how many gifted children around us have ended up being ordinary because of improper education!
The famous cross-talk artist Guo Degang has a famous saying: The earth does not grow useless grass, and the sky does not give birth to useless people. Everyone is born like a piece of jade, some are shaped into heroes who mend the heavens, and some are reduced to mud and dust.
Mathematician Yang Wuzhi's education of Yang Zhenning when he was young may give parents a lot of inspiration.
Yang Wuzhi is a famous mathematician and mathematics educator in China. He has long served as the head or acting director of the Department of Mathematics at Tsinghua University and Southwest Union University.
In the spring of 1923, Yang Wuzhi successfully passed the publicly-funded study abroad examination in Anhui Province. He immediately left his wife and son Yang Zhenning, who was not yet one year old, and went to the United States to study alone.
He first went to Stanford University in the western United States for three semesters of college courses, that is, to obtain a bachelor's degree. He then transferred to the University of Chicago in the fall of 1924 to continue his studies, where he received a doctorate in mathematics; he was also the first doctor of mathematics in our country.
Mr. Yang Wuzhi has made many contributions to mathematics, among which the discovery and inspiration of the mathematician Hua Luogeng should also be counted as a contribution.
After Hua Luogeng came to Tsinghua University, he chose number theory as the research direction, and Hua Luogeng wrote a letter to Hong Kong's "Wide Angle Mirror" weekly in 1980, saying: "It was Professor Yang Wuzhi who led me to the road of number theory. ”
Yang Wuzhi and his wife and son Yang Zhenning took a group photo
Yang Wuzhi, who has studied both Chinese and Western, can also be regarded as painstakingly educating his naturally gifted baby son Yang Zhenning.
Yang Zhenning was born smart, when he was 4 years old, his mother Luo Menghua taught him to read more than 3,000 Chinese characters, and when he entered the private school at the age of 5, he memorized the private school enlightenment books "Long wen Whip Shadow", "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names" and "Thousand Family Poems" in half a semester.
In 1933, Yang Zhenning was admitted to Chongde Middle School. Chongde Middle School is a church middle school with a high reputation for teaching quality in the city, from the first year of junior high school to the third year of high school, there are six classes, each class only recruits 50 students, and there are more than 300 people in the school.
In Chongde Middle School, Yang Zhenning received a good secondary education, and he not only had excellent grades in natural subjects such as mathematics, science and chemistry, but also excellent in English and Chinese.
Yang Wuzhi is a professor of mathematics with quite humanistic feelings, and he has a lot of experience in Yang Zhenning's education, and Yang Zhenning said with deep feelings about this:
"I was nine or ten years old, and my father already knew that I was very capable of mathematics. By the time I was 11 years old and in junior high school, my mathematical abilities were more fully demonstrated. In retrospect, if he had personally taught me analytical geometry and calculus, I would have learned it faster. But he didn't. ”
Mr. Yang Wuzhi knows that his son Yang Zhenning is talented in mathematics, and he is a mathematics professor, which can be said to have unique conditions, but Yang Wuzhi did not teach Yang Zhenning mathematics, but locked up mathematical books.
Yang Wuzhi's approach is very intriguing, which may be the so-called curiosity in psychology!
Albert Einstein once had a vivid interpretation of "curiosity": curiosity is the source of endless perseverance and patience for scientists.
Curiosity is the first virtue of scholars, "curiosity" is a magical key to open children to the world of science, smart parents will find ways to stimulate children's curiosity.
And one thing that many parents often do is to constantly destroy the child's curiosity, how many excellent children are so "out of sight"!