Once upon a time, Western education was a model for us to learn from, especially in the United States, which was the most sought after, and in the eyes of many people, American education was so powerful that we had to learn from it.
It is understandable to think so, because the United States has more than three hundred and seventy Nobel laureates, far more than other countries, quality education and happy education, the earliest originated in the United States, we mentioned today, let children learn happily, do not put too much pressure on children, but also the earliest from this.
What is Happiness Education?
The so-called happy education is to reduce the burden on children, reduce the pressure on children's learning, and advocate letting children find interest in learning, which is the opposite of dead reading, blindly squeezing children's learning time, wisdom extinguishing children's creativity and imagination, only happy education can cultivate excellent children.
Such a view seems to be very good, the United States has also been promoting happy education, so many years have passed, these educated children, what happened to it? The truth is far less beautiful than imagined.
To take a simple example, in 2018, an American website sampled more than 8,000 people to conduct a questionnaire survey, one of the questions is, do you think the earth is round or square, this question seems to be a kindergarten child can answer, but the results are surprising, a third of the 00s in the sample firmly believe that the earth is flat.
And such an "anti-intellectual" phenomenon abounds in the United States, such as for freedom, resolutely resist masks, etc., let us marvel, what kind of children have been educated in the United States?
Education in the United States has long since diverged
In fact, the united states to promote happy education is not false, but the real American education has long been divided, some of which have long been separated from the public, the implementation of "elite education."
American schools are divided into three categories, private schools, senior public schools and ordinary public schools, elite education children will become the upper class of society, and children under happy education will become the bottom of the United States.
In the United States, there is also a division of school districts, ordinary family children, can only go to ordinary public schools, such schools lack of resources, the pursuit of happy education, so the learning atmosphere is very weak, children arrive at school at eight o'clock in the morning, three o'clock in the afternoon can be released from school, their way of pastime, mostly play games.
Most of the children under the elite education have better families, the schools they attend are strict, the educational resources are the top match, of course, the tuition fees are not affordable for ordinary families. Parents have a lot of resources and financial support, children have to get up very early, there are heavy schoolwork after class, and they also have to participate in various cram classes and special classes on weekends, and it is not too much to describe it as "cold window hard reading".
Why is there a divergence in education?
You may be wondering, why can't education be unified? In fact, in the United States, the class has long been solidified, and the children under the elite education are destined to survive at the top of the pyramid when they grow up, and their professions will be lawyers, scientists, and corporate executives. The United States is a country with a developed manufacturing industry, which needs a large number of laborers, they do not need self-discipline, they do not need to understand the working principle of the machine, just follow the sop.
There is a saying in the United States that the children of the poor are not worthy of learning, they may be delivery workers, cooks, waiters, hairdressers, do not need to understand technology, and never have the opportunity to participate in the research and development and management of high-tech and cutting-edge industries, so happy education is born. From this point of view, the "human design" of happiness education has collapsed.
Therefore, no matter how excellent the educational resources in the United States are, they do not belong to the children of the poor, they have two choices, either to go to work in society after graduating from high school, or to study only in a community college.
Happy education is not good, and don't beat it to death with a stick
After a preliminary understanding of happiness education in the United States, we turned to the side, and a considerable number of parents are training their children in happiness education, what is their learning state? School homework is very small, extracurricular activities are very rich, all year round always holidays, after the Chinese festival and foreign festivals, children are very happy every day.
But if there is no primary school and college entrance examination, parents will definitely pursue happy education, but hard injuries have emerged, these children must also participate in the cruel competition of test-oriented education, so parents while promoting happy education, while anxious for their children's grades, children are not happy, parents also began to worry, and finally, those interest classes set for children were all replaced by cram classes.
Therefore, the most anxious place about happy education is that it is easy for children to escape learning and pressure, so that parents fall into the misunderstanding of "grades are not important", thinking that children will have an easy life as long as they are happy, but ignoring the environment, children show a different personality, and it is easy to become "alternative" in everyone's eyes.
Talking about education aside from the environment, just talking about paper, seeing the child as a sapling, but you can't ignore the whole forest behind him.
The process of education itself is full of pain, no one wants to memorize boring formulas, tedious English grammar and awkward poetry, they like to hide in the sofa watching TV, playing games, so education is based on happiness, but the education of people are happy, learning people are happy, but the result is not happy, education has no shortcuts, can only be bitter and happy.
But is happiness education really bad? Don't beat the stick to death, the essence of which is more worthy of our learning, such as happy learning, to give children full encouragement and trust, believe in the child's best, increase children's self-confidence in learning, rather than forcing children to learn under the stick.
Happy learning, parents should accompany their children to find the answer to the question, rather than picking up the mobile phone to search for the answer, companionship is always the longest confession of affection, parental companionship is a kind of self-discipline, he asks you to put down the mobile phone, let go of desire, and share happiness and suffering with the child.
Happy learning, but also a kind of parent-child persistence, can be an ancient poem to accompany the picture, can be a difficult to understand English to do scenario simulation, can be ugly for the child, let the child experience a sense of achievement and happiness in learning, I think this is the essence of happy learning, is companionship, persistence, warmth and encouragement.
Orange sheng Huainan is orange, born in Huaibei is orange, education is not a rigid set, nor does it not know how to be flexible, fortunately, we were born in China, our children have the right to receive equal education, the college entrance examination is the fairest, every pain that children eat can be tested from the grades, and it is also the capital of children across classes.
It is still the old saying, do not suffer in hardship, it is difficult to be a superior person. Happiness must also suffer, otherwise, when you grow up, some will suffer.