This article is authorized from: Faraway Aoki (ID: YFqingmu)
Original Author: Faraway Aoki
In recent years, quality education has been very popular.
First of all, quality education is certainly very good, and there is certainly no problem in the general direction and big concept, but quality education has been sprayed very badly, and the ordinary people are extremely disgusted.
This is not to blame the ordinary people for not understanding quality education, but for China's current quality education that has deviated from its original intention.
It is okay to engage in quality education, but we cannot just recognize money.
What is the original intention of quality education?
Break the shackles of test-oriented education on students' creativity, so that they have wisdom, dare to innovate, and develop morally, intellectually and physically.
The original intention is that there is no problem at all, and there is no problem with every word.
However, when put into practice, what is quality education and how to achieve quality education is a big problem.
The quality education seen by the masses is completely prepared for the rich and has nothing to do with themselves, and is even specially designed to suppress themselves.
Why is equestrianism, piano, and surfing called quality education, while football, playing shuttlecocks, and playing billiards are not quality education?
Why is it that going to Africa to do charity and doing scientific research in Antarctica is quality education, but pinching mud on the ground and digging weeds on the side of the road is not quality education?
Why is it that "study touring" in Europe and the United States is quality education, but shopping in the local area is not quality education?
The school says that playing billiards is a plaything that will ruin a child's life, so can playing polo stimulate children's creativity and benefit children for life?
Of all the various ways of "quality education" that have been launched in various places and tried, I have summed up a law, that is, what rich people can afford to play is called quality education.
Everyone can play billiards, so playing billiards can never be quality education.
Few people can play polo, so polo can be quality education.
Polo balls are not expensive, but horses are expensive.
Suitable for children riding, in order to engage in quality education, short ponies trained in early childhood, more expensive.
Polo, equestrianism, and everything that is tied to horses are expensive, especially horses that can be used by children.
The following child who is engaged in quality education is really diligent, in order to choose a suitable horse to catch the plane, on the plane also have to race against the clock to make up for the homework.
It's strange why there is a sofa on the plane she is on, I have flown many times, I have never seen such a strange plane, is this the professional plane used for quality education?
Too few people ride horses, and even fewer children ride horses, so in the past, the participants in youth equestrian competitions were often only a few dozen, or even a dozen people.
In 2014, a Hangzhou junior high school boy was admitted to Canada's leading boys' school with only an equestrian medal, which felt he could come to the school to form a polo team.
Why is this boy surnamed Guo recognized as an excellent student if he rides a good horse, and why is it that a bunch of children on the Mongolian steppe who have been riding horses since childhood will not be recognized as excellent students?
Because riding horses on the Mongolian steppe and riding horses in Hangzhou are two "horse" things.
You can ride a horse, others dare not judge whether you are excellent, but you will ride a horse in Hangzhou, others can immediately conclude that your family is rich, very rich.
So you're excellent.
As a test field and base camp for quality education, how does Beijing engage in quality education?
According to netizens, the school in Xicheng District organizes children to go to Africa during the holidays to see the great migration of animals.
For children in Chaoyang District, the junior high school social practice class is to go to an African country to plant trees, and the sports practice is to go to a South American country to play football.
Playing football is not quality education, but playing football in South America is even quality education.
Because the average person can't afford to spend this money.
There are other types of quality education, such as the 2012 Beijing No. 5 Middle School organizing primary and secondary school students to go to Antarctica for 18 days.
In 2018, there were primary school students in Beijing who went to the Arctic for scientific research and isolated antifreeze microorganisms from Arctic seawater.
At a huge cost, sending professionals to escort and let children under the age of 10 go to the Antarctic and Arctic scientific expeditions that can only be visited by adventurers, is it a quality education? Is there a role in broadening children's horizons and enhancing children's interest in science?
Playing equestrianism is purely to show that you have money, and this scientific expedition to the North and South Poles can really enhance children's interest in science.
However, it can only be improved a little bit, and there is absolutely no qualitative improvement.
In order to enhance the child's interest in so little, spend so much money, can it be drawn?
Whether it can be drawn or not depends on how much money the parents of these children have.
Anything as long as there are fewer people playing, it is quality education, and once there are more people playing, it is immediately not quality education.
Therefore, in recent years, all the schools engaged in "quality education" have been constantly digging up their minds and competing for glory, and have turned quality education into a show of wealth conference.
In the past, skating was a quality education, and many middle-class children would immediately become equestrian after they were gone.
In the past, fencing was quality education, and many people immediately became kayaks after meeting.
Previously, internships in large companies were quality education, but after being learned by the middle class, they immediately became volunteers around the world.
Quality education is a game of peek-a-boo, and the core purpose is not actually education, but to screen out wealthy families.
The most typical evidence is the piano.
Playing the piano used to be a tall thing, and it was considered by many people to be a quality education, and countless parents sent their children to play the piano.
But since the popularity of cheap pianos and even electronic organs, the cost of learning piano has been greatly reduced, and any middle-class child can play the piano, this thing is immediately not quality education.
I haven't heard of the news of how the piano is played well, and I haven't heard of it for a long time.
In the chain of contempt for musical instruments, the piano has been at the bottom, the first one is called the pipe organ, and the organ can be played to be called quality education, and the people in the admissions office of famous schools will look at you more.
Why is the organ more educated than the piano?
The organ looks similar to the piano, that is, there are a few more buttons, which is much more difficult?
The organ is called the king of musical instruments, which is certainly not the same as the piano.
The reason you feel like the piano is because all you see is the console of the organ.
Organ body, please see the picture below.
Didn't find the organ?
Then I tell you, this whole wall, a wall more than ten meters high, all the places that glow with golden luster are the brass pipes of the organ, and these countless brass pipes add up to a pipe organ.
Because the area is too large, the organ has always been bound to the church, and the tone of the organ has its own holy light.
An organ is not too expensive, and all the brass pipes can be bought in the millions.
But if you have to find a place to play this organ in a big city, you have to have a villa, a single-family villa.
It's really hard to play the organ, because it's hard to even touch the organ. Only those who are "most qualified" can touch the organ.
In 2018, Huang Ruijie, a sophomore in Chengdu, was admitted to Harvard University in the class with a total score of 55 students, and also received a full scholarship, and also received admission letters from Stanford, Colombia and other famous universities.
For the reason why he was at the bottom of his grades, Huang Ruijie said that he did not put all his mind on learning, because he did a lot of things and was looking for meaning outside of learning.
For example, he has volunteered in refugee camps abroad, organized clubs to care for children, and has cycled 750 kilometers from Rome to Venice.
Because of these, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia and other famous universities are so unanimous that he is an "excellent talent", and even ignore the results?
The people in the admissions offices of these elite schools are not blind.
Whether it is high quality or not, whether it is social responsibility, this is not discussed first.
But as soon as I looked at this resume, I knew how rich this kid was, and I believed that the examiners at Harvard's admissions office could see that too.
China can engage in quality education, but it cannot follow the example of the United States and engage in elite education in the name of quality education.
Can ride a horse, can play the piano, can speak many foreign languages, this is quality education?
Isn't the essence of quality education to shape a person's world outlook, outlook on life, and values, and enhance a person's core cultivation?
Training a person to play the piano, ride a horse, play the piano, chess, calligraphy, and so on, this is not quality education, but skill education, which is not much better than exam-oriented education, and has no effect on enhancing China's national strength.
Will the quality of horseback riding in Hangzhou be high? Rural children still farm, will you?
Why is the skill of farming not considered quality education? Not spending enough money on this skill?
Rich people in big cities give their children 1,000 yuan an hour of "etiquette lessons", saying that this can improve the quality of people.
The eight-year-old left-behind children in Zhaotong, Yunnan, became "ice flower boys" in order to go to school, and they will never give up in the face of violent snow and wind.
On the strength of mental strength, on the tenacity of willpower, the personal quality of the ice flower boy is far better than that of the rich child who takes the etiquette class.
But no one thinks it has anything to do with personal qualities.
Civilian games such as kicking shuttlecocks, jumping leather bands, and playing billiards can never become the carriers of quality education, for only one reason, the poor can afford to play.
It is said that quality education is good, but what kind of quality education is, what kind of carrier to rely on for training and assessment, no one can give the answer.
All quality education has finally become a money-burning competition, and whoever has more money has more quality.
I have briefly summarized the various types of educational models in European and American society, and the law is:
Rich and talented, this is elite education.
Rich and talentless, this is quality education.
No money has talent, this is test-oriented education.
No money and no talent, this is vocational education.
Quality education is a tool of social stratification in Europe and the United States, and it is an artifact that hinders the promotion of people without money to the class.
But we are not Europe and the United States, we are China, we are a country built for the poor.
Can we not engage in this thing until we have found a way to carry out quality education for the poor?
Quality education that the poor cannot use, we do not need for the time being, and we will not need it in the future.