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At present, most families in China face the same kind of life: the bottomless pit of education investment under the dual-track system of education. Professor Qu Jingdong of Peking University once made a sharp point at the Education Roundtable:
"The current social reality in China is that, first, China's education system has become difficult to bear the functions and obligations of today's society, and secondly, under the condition of allowing the huge capital market to intervene in the educational environment, all families have invested most of their family assets in the education of their children, which has forced many middle- and low-class families to fall into a bottomless pit of educational resource investment."
Qu Jingdong pointed out: "This is the dual-track system of education presented in the current society of our country, and with the development of this system, the children of our country are forced to enter the cruel social competition at a very young age. Children understand from an early age that their achievements are exchanged for the hard work of their parents and the resources of the whole family. ”
Undoubtedly, those chicken parents who are deeply involved in the bottomless pit of resources are difficult to retreat, and the biggest beneficiary of resource investment is not the child and himself.
Intellectuals are responsible for monitoring, reflecting, warning about all kinds of undesirable phenomena in society, and giving the clearest and correctest hints to those who are busy with work every day and do not have time to think.
Such acts of kindness are not because those intellectuals have nothing to do, but because as intellectuals, they have sufficient knowledge reserves and the conscience and responsibility of the insight of the times.
On the issue of the social responsibility of public intellectuals, the famous German philosopher Habermas once said: "If there is one thing that society does not allow intellectuals to do, it is to become cynical." ”
Throughout his life, Habermas had a strong thirst for knowledge, in his own words: "He was born to pursue knowledge and truth." ”
And Habermas's life does provide us with the most resolute spirit of exploration in Western philosophical thought since ancient Greece.
Habermas pointed out that cynicism is no longer simply out of touch with society or anti-social traditions, like dogs, living a simple and simple life, but has a new meaning.
Intellectuals no longer obey and trust, and intellectuals show indifference to suffering with others and society.
From this perspective, Professor Qu Jingdong of Peking University made a speech on the current situation of education in China, exposing the truth of the current situation of education in China.
What is obvious is that to speak bluntly about the current educational situation of the dual-track system is Professor Qu Jingdong's conscience and courage, and it is also his responsibility and vision as a public intellectual.
However, the unscrupulous media have cut off Professor Qu Jingdong's speech, distorted the true meaning of Professor Qu Jingdong's speech, exaggerated the content that "family education has fallen into a bottomless pit of investment", weakened other contents, and plunged the Chinese people into an inexplicable panic of education investment.
If you listen carefully to Professor Qu Jingdong's speech, then you will soon find that what Professor Qu Jingdong wants to emphasize and transmit is not panic and anxiety, but wants to call on people in the whole society to put the focus and focus of education back on education itself.
In this regard, Professor Qu Jingdong put forward the following views:
1. The purpose of education is to allow children to achieve physical and mental health.
2. Education should return to a state of simplicity and simplicity.
3, the purpose of education should be to make children curious about knowledge.
4. At present, China's education has completely fallen into "competition".
So, in the face of this modern educational environment in our country, what should each family do? On this question, Professor Qu Jingdong also gave the answer: "Same as the country, the focus and attention of education are returned to education itself." ”
No matter how the national system and social environment change, the essence of education should not change, and every family always determines the direction of children's education.
With family education as the mainstay and school education as the supplement, the whole society should return education to its essence. When it comes to the essence of education, it should not be based on test-oriented education, but should be heuristic education based on enlightening nature.
As the first guardian of the child, the parent is also the first teacher, he must establish a correct learning attitude for the child, so that the child understands that learning is a lifelong thing.
Learning is not to get high scores, but to broaden your horizons, improve your abilities, and make yourself a visionary, creative, judgmental, and gainful person.
The above about the essence of education is what Professor Qu Jingdong wants to tell you most.
When every family begins to face up to education and return the focus of education to education itself, the educational environment of our society will be improved, and only when the social education environment is improved can we meet the needs of modern society for talents and our country can develop.
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Author | Tommy
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参考资料：Bruk, A., Scholl, S. G., & Bless, H. (2018). Beautiful mess effect: Self–other differences in evaluation of showing vulnerability. Journal of personality and social psychology, 115(2), 192-205