The "starting line" is not as important as you think

I often hear parents of students say: you can't let your child lose on the starting line, is the "starting line" really that important?

As the saying goes, "Cut wood without sharpening the knife by mistake": Simply put, before cutting wood, you must sharpen the knife first, and then cut wood, so that when you cut wood, it will be easy and efficient. At the same time, it also refers to the principle of "ten minutes on stage, ten years off stage", rather than whoever goes on stage first performs well. Where sufficient preparations must be made in advance, and then then implemented, the success rate is high.

In the neighborhood where we used to live, there was a pair of twin sons, and the two children played table tennis from a young age, went to practice as soon as school was out, and played very well, one used to use the right hand and the other used to the left hand (left-handed). Everyone is very optimistic about them, and everyone sees everyone praising. His parents felt proud, in order not to affect academic performance, but also signed up for the twins to catch up, saying: "Children are raised early and cannot lose at the starting line." I don't know what the reason is, in the year of the college entrance examination, neither of them was admitted to college (the score of the test was too low), and the table tennis did not achieve anything, and it did not go away. The two children are in their thirties and still work everywhere until now. There are many relevant examples around, and I will not list them all!

Some parents not only enroll their children in various special class interest classes, but also want their children's academic performance not to lag behind, turning their children's childhood into learning machines. I believe that although it is important for children to have good academic performance, it is more important to master the methods of learning and life skills, and to get along harmoniously with classmates, methods can improve learning efficiency, skills can improve minds, and harmonious handling is a good moral character. If your child has a good character and curiosity to learn, it must be more valuable than the test score, there will be a big pattern, it will become a great instrument in the future, and it will make a certain contribution to the country and society. And there is no need for you to worry about "don't lose at the starting line", spending money and energy to report cram school.

The winner of the race in life is often not the person who starts to run fast, but the person who can persevere to the end!

Friends, what do you think?