Now many educational institutions are engaged in what "super memory" training, tuition fees are often tens of thousands, and tout this thing has a magical effect on children's performance improvement. So I'm going to reveal to you what "super memory" is and what exactly is in it.
(1) The principle of "super memory method" is revealed:
If I read you a string of letters now and let you memorize it from beginning to end, would you be able to do it?
homeworkisschoolworkthatteachersgivetopupilstodoathomeintheeveningorattheweekend
You may think that this is an impossible task, but in fact, this is an English sentence, removing all the spaces, the sentence is like this:
Homework is school work that teachers give to pupils to do at home in the evening or at the weekend. (Homework is a type of homework that school teachers assign to students to do at night or on weekends.)
A person who speaks English can memorize this string of letters from beginning to end in no time. But for an illiterate English speaker, this is called "super memory."
The same is true of digital memory, which sounds like a bunch of meaningless numbers in the average person, but there is actually a set of code behind it.
For example, 6939937510, the corresponding code is as follows:
69: Cooking wine
39: Three nine stomach Thai
93: Teacher
75: Blocks
10: Ghosts
Then the so-called memory master made up these words into a small story, such as "there are three or nine stomachs in the cooking wine, which is drunk by the teacher, the teacher plays with the blocks, and the ghosts float out of the building blocks" Remember this story, and these numbers are remembered.
A small note can write down the carving insect trick, are you sure you have to spend ten or twenty thousand to learn this?
(2) The scare effect of "super memory science"
The so-called super memory is just a gimmick of much greater ornamental value than actual value. This routine is like magic and the form of expression is really intimidating and amazing. But at the end of the day, he's just magic, not real magic. If you think this will improve academic performance, it only means that you have been brainwashed by these educational institutions.
Magic looks dazzling, but every detail is carefully designed, and any mistake in any link can not show the effect, such as the magic of cutting people in half, and it is limited to those performers on the stage, if replaced by any untrained audience under the stage, it will be dead.
By the same token, for digital transcription, the amazing memory displayed by the so-called memory masters is subject to strict conditions for realization. Although the numbers were collected randomly, they were not prepared and rehearsed in advance. However, the randomly collected number can only be two digits, 57 or 08, because only two digits match the code, and those memory masters will only have this. If you give these masters a bunch of three-digit numbers, such as 379, 208, 477, I bet they will immediately be beaten back to their original form, and their performance is even worse than that of the elderly, because the three-digit numbers have no corresponding code, and these memory masters can no longer make up stories.
You now understand that the memory level of these so-called memory masters is actually no different from that of ordinary people. The so-called "super memory" is nothing more than an encoding and decoding trick that can only be performed by specific content under certain conditions.
So most of the children pay high tuition fees to train in such institutions, and you will find that they can only remember what is taught in the institution, and nothing else. To put it bluntly, they only learn a magic trick with ornamental value, not magic with practical value. There is an essential difference between the two.
The knowledge in schools is ever-changing and complex, and it is a knowledge system that human beings have developed and accumulated over the past few decades and hundreds of years, and the only way to remember all these things is to practice repeatedly on the basis of understanding. If the so-called "super memory" method is adopted, everything is coded, and then the code is made up into a story, which increases the memory burden of the students. By the time you extract this knowledge from your brain, do you remember which of the thousands of little stories you have?
(3) Even if the memory is improved, it does not mean that the child's grades are good.
Grade improvement is the result of a child's "comprehensive intelligence + effort". Not to mention how much time your child is willing to spend on learning, just from the intellectual point of view, the internationally recognized intelligence is at least divided into five factors: 1, observation, 2, attention, 3, memory, 4, thinking, 5, imagination.
We all know the barrel theory, how much water a barrel can hold depends on the shortest board. If the other four aspects of the child are poor, it is useless to simply improve memory. Just like a computer, if the memory and CPU are old,you just add the hard disk to 100T, which is also a waste.
Now the focus of the state's examination on children has long been from the simple rote memorization of quality training, it can be said that thinking, observation and imagination are the key factors that determine the quality of children's performance, at least 80% of the weight.
(4) The intimidating aura of "super memory science"
The so-called "super memory science" is just a small memory skill, and some institutions are stunned to package it as a lofty science, the purpose of which is to accumulate wealth. There is at least a professional level eight certificate to teach English, and at least a level ten certificate in piano to teach piano. What is really talented and practical to learn is not something that can be achieved after ten years of hard reading. However, all institutions that teach memory science cannot come up with any qualification certificate recognized by the Chinese education department or government units.
Again, the carving insect technique that can be written on a small piece of paper is not a science at all. Nor does any university in China offer a so-called "memory studies" major. All the institutions that claim to have a memory major at XX University are lying!
So these institutions have to spend money to buy all kinds of fancy halos to whitewash themselves and fool parents and students. "World xx", "international xx", plus a few foreigner faces, ignorant Chinese have been completely conquered, and few people have investigated what threshold these halos are, what kind of efforts need to be made to get them, or whether they can be bought only by spending money. As far as I know, in addition to the "memory master" certificate that needs to be practiced and competed to get, the other "xx referees, xx mentors, xx lecturers" are basically just a piece of paper that can be bought with money.
Many institutions take the "World Brain Championship" to put gold on their faces, in fact, this so-called World Brain Championship includes the organizing committee behind it is a pure commercial organization, and the competition held every year is to use the above method to memorize some messy symbol information, including numbers and playing cards. The title "Brain Championship" itself has an element of false propaganda, and the human brain can only be used to memorize numbers and playing cards? The brain's computational power, comprehension, inference power, comprehension ability are not included, how can it be called "brain power championship"? According to this logic, as long as the items that can be used for competition, including playing games, eating chili peppers can be called "brain championships", because any human behavior is inseparable from the participation of the brain.
This tournament originated in the United Kingdom, but it was touted in China. Because the domestic educational institution deliberately tied this thing to "improving children's academic performance", with a series of "halos" issued by this institution to deceive students and parents and make high profits.
Those who don't believe it can search for themselves, whether it is the official website of the organizing committee of this event, or any promotional materials, there is no word that "can improve academic performance". Foreigners are not fools, if there is really a magical effect in this regard, will people not promote it? In the end, I am still afraid of taking legal risks. In contrast, these domestic agencies (all the club members of this institution are required to pay annual fees, and the identity is actually an agent), every day in various media, various "open classes" to promote this trick carving insect small skills can make children become school bullies. There are really camels who never brag.
(5) The marketing routine of "super memory science"
Have you ever wondered why these institutions run "open classes" all day long? The so-called open class is actually a marketing class, and the scene is only to trick students and parents into paying IQ tax. If this thing really has such a god, it can make the scum turn into a bully in seconds, passing ten, passing hundred, students introducing students, parents introducing parents, their institutions have long been full. There is no time, and there is no need to spend a lot of money renting a space in a five-star hotel to open a marketing class to enroll students.
The actual situation is that the vast majority of parents sign up and find that this thing is just a carving insect trick, and the effect is far less than the public class boasts, so people basically do not introduce their friends' children to learn. Therefore, these institutions can only hold so-called "open classes" every day, using information opaque to continue to fool strangers. Because they always do stranger marketing, they have to pay a lot of advertising fees and venue rent every time, so the cost of enrollment is very high, and they must raise the price of the course to cover these costs, so that students and parents can act as the wrongdoers. This kind of class is like you spending 18 thousand to buy a box of luxury mooncakes, in fact, the cost of mooncakes is only 2 yuan a piece, and the remaining more than 1,000 are packaged.
Have you ever seen an institution that teaches painting, piano, English, and calligraphy every day to open classes in five-star hotels to enroll students? In the final analysis, it is a carving insect trick that can be written down by a small piece of paper, and it cannot withstand scrutiny at all.
Finally, if you are interested in this thing, you must sign up, you must pay attention to three points.
First of all, many video sites (Tencent Classroom, Baidu Chuanxue, NetEase Cloud Classroom) have similar "super memory" courses, most of which are free and only a few tens of dollars. Before spending tens of thousands of dollars, you may wish to spend dozens of dollars to see what you can learn.
Secondly, ask whether the institution has a license to run a school, without which it is a black institution and does not have the qualifications to run a school. In addition, the teachers in the class have no teacher qualification certificate, at least these teachers must also have a bachelor's degree from a well-known university. Otherwise, a scum who doesn't know which three-taught, nine-way halfway out of the house teaches your child "super memory" and says that it can improve your child's academic performance, don't you think they are insulting the IQ of your family?
Finally, now the state requires all off-campus educational institutions not to charge tuition fees for more than three months at a time, because many educational institutions use enrollment to accumulate wealth and then run away, and there are many institutions that falsely publicize when enrolling students, and students find that it is not worth the money at all after classes, so the state has made this provision. If you have already paid the money, you can also get the money back according to this provision, if the other party does not give it, you can directly call the Education Bureau to complain, or find the media exposure. Many of these institutions are black households that do not have the qualifications to run schools.