The allusion to the growth of the seedlings is from mencius gongsun ugly. Legend has it that there was a man in the Song Kingdom who worried all day that his seedlings would not grow fast and not grow tall. One day, he came home very tired, but his face was full of pride. The family was puzzled and asked him what had happened. The man said happily, "I'm tired today because I've helped our family's seedlings grow taller." His son was very confused, so he went to the field to investigate the situation, only to find that all his seedlings had withered.
The story of the seedlings tells us that we must follow objective laws, step by step, and cannot force quick results. Linking the story of seedling growth to education in China is not a recent thing, and there have been calls for not giving children too much pressure and not interfering too much in their growth.
Indeed, in life, many parents will let their children sign up for various training courses, or let their children learn some foreign languages and other knowledge, and school teachers will sometimes talk about some super-outline content. Some children who have not yet entered school will also recite some ancient poems at the request of their parents, and kindergarten children will learn the knowledge of primary school with the help of parents and teachers. This kind of advanced education is very common in China, and naturally caused some controversy.
People who oppose this kind of advanced education believe that in the important stage of children's growth, the most important thing is to release the child's nature and let the child have a happy childhood, rather than just remembering the books that cannot be turned over and memorized. Secondly, the growth of children has its own laws, and children's education should also follow such laws. Advanced education exposes a child to too much knowledge prematurely, which undoubtedly violates these laws. Helping children grow in ways that violate the laws of nature is like picking seedlings to help them grow, and eventually they will naturally fail.
It is naturally good to release the child's nature and avoid too much interference in the child's growth. Putting too much pressure on the child regardless of the child's actual situation is definitely not conducive to the child's growth. But everything can not be one-size-fits-all, and for those children who like to learn and like to delve into it, it is natural to be exposed to knowledge beyond their age prematurely.
If you have the heart to look through the biographies of those celebrities, you will find that many of them have shown unusual learning ability at a very young age, and many of them have completed university courses even in their teens. In the case of masters in the humanities, many of them have mastered multiple languages at the age of one or two, which is obviously not something that can be cultivated by the kind of sheep-herding education. In fact, many celebrities receive a much better education than their peers.
Education in all countries is divided into stages according to age, and each stage has its own learning tasks. Educational institutions start from fairness, and there is nothing wrong with eliminating advanced education, but they also need to take into account the actual needs of children. Releasing the child's nature to respect the child's choice also means not to block the child's enterprising path. What children need to learn, what they should not learn, should be mastered by the children themselves, not by parents, by society to interfere too much, I think this is the premise of reflecting on advanced education.
Educational planning for children should start from the specific situation of the child, blindly let the child follow the trend, and let the child receive advanced education. But we can't ignore the needs of children and limit their learning ability.
In addition, the reflection on advanced education should also be based on the current reality. You know, parents let their children receive advanced education, the essence is to cope with the current reality. The reality of meritocracy remains unchanged, the huge competitive pressure remains unchanged, the basis of these realities does not change, these practical needs do not disappear, and advanced education will persist through various means. When the child's learning and competitive environment improve, there will naturally be no market for advanced education.