A month after the Tianjin tragedy, colleagues at home in Tianjin were suddenly notified by teachers to hold a parent-teacher meeting. At the parent-teacher meeting, my colleague cried into tears, and I sorted out and shared the content of the parent-teacher meeting with everyone after interviewing her, and the details poked "One month after the Tianjin tragedy seven jumps, I cried into tears at the parent-teacher conference", and this article reached 100,000+ readings 2 hours after the day it was posted, which shows that parents pay attention to this topic and resonate.
In the suicide note that made countless parents cry, there is this sentence:
"It's not me you love, it's me who rushes into the top 10 of the class, it's me who ranks in the top 20 in the age, it's me who gets a perfect score."
Only pursuing grades, and finally forced this sensible and intelligent girl to death.
And the comments in the comment area also have many sad and gratifying messages:
It is sad that many people say that their childhood experiences are similar to those of girls, as long as they fail the test, they may be abused or beaten by their families, and the situation is so serious that it is really beyond Chang's father's imagination.
Fortunately, after becoming parents, they all decided to cut off the harm of their original families and strive to give their children a more inclusive, relaxed and colorful growth environment.
In the past, many parents hung up a sentence on their lips: "If you don't study well, you can't enter a good elementary school, if you can't enter a good primary school, you can't enter a good middle school, if you can't enter a good university, you can't get into a good university, you can't get into a good job, you can't live a good life without a good job..."
The seemingly logical reasoning actually hides all kinds of bugs. For example, what is a good university, a good job, a good life? Who defines this "good" and how?
Looking back on those unforgettable happy times in life, how many of them are directly related to grades? Grades, this once regarded by parents as a big thing, once overwhelmed many children, but often become worthless when children become adults, what an ironic and powerless reality.
Recently, Chang Dad watched a documentary called "I am XX Student", which tells the life status and learning content of students of different majors in different universities. These college students with very different majors have one thing in common, they choose majors that are their own interests, and their eyes are lit when they talk about professional content.
Only with love can there be expectations, and only when there is light to chase can we strive forward.
This documentary consists of eight episodes, each about 3-4 majors, and the duration is about half an hour. It is recommended that parents can take the baby to watch it together, those majors that we have never heard of will open our eyes, and from a practical point of view, it can also be used as backup materials for the baby's future major.
Love to eat and eat, these are the professions on the tip of the tongue
The last category as popular as Zibo barbecue is probably crayfish! I still remember that before the epidemic, it was common to want to eat crayfish for an hour.
But I never imagined that "making crayfish" could also become a profession.
Yu Dashuang, a student of the "Culinary Technology and Nutrition" of the Lobster School, will learn more than 130 lobster dishes in three years, in addition to lobster farming, nutrition and management marketing.
As the first batch of "academic roasted shrimp masters", the first difficulty encountered by Yu Dashuang was to deal with crayfish, and if he was not careful, he might be caught in the shrimp tongs and bleed. The teacher set a qualified line for him to make a thousand pounds of crayfish, and it was only when he was two hundred pounds that he learned how to handle lobsters correctly.
When dealing with lobster, he couldn't bear it at first, apologizing to the lobster while dealing with it, "Brother, don't blame me", and later when he dealt with the lobster, his heart became numb.
When he was about to graduate, Yu Dashuang had mastered the essentials of making lobster dishes, and from time to time he would innovate his own dishes. His plan is to work in a restaurant for a few years after graduation to gain experience, and then open his own store.
While Yu Dashuang was tumbling a wok in the classroom, Dong Yanru, a tea major at Zhejiang University, was testing the quality of tea in the laboratory. She has loved tea very much since she was a child, and she cherishes tea very much. The tea science major of Zhejiang University has its own experimental field, which requires students to be able to go to the field, be able to roast tea, be able to do scientific research, and play tea art.
But in the lab, drinking tea can become a chore. In order to review the quality of tea, she needs to strictly follow experimental procedures, and may drink dozens or hundreds of cups of tea at a time. She also needs to be keenly aware of the problems of tea and make a comprehensive judgment on the characteristics of tea.
If the tea is not ideal, they also have to go to the tea factory to trace the cause of the problem, monitor the indicators of each processing link and make adjustments, and find the most suitable processing plan, which may be repeated dozens of times.
Compared with the first two, the research content of Lu Hongyun, a doctoral student majoring in food science and engineering at Zhejiang University, is much more abstract. She can't cook and is allergic to alcohol, but it doesn't prevent her from being a complete foodie.
Her major is not only to study how to eat, but also to study the packaging, processing and transportation of food. Most of the time, they wore white coats and conducted chemical and biological experiments in their experiments.
Lu Hongyun's topic is to study edible fungus yogurt, and she needs to do a lot of experiments to develop healthy and delicious yogurt.
So we see that the problem of "eating" alone is too broad-based. Moreover, it can be carefully pondered from the tip of the tongue or studied in depth academically.
There are heroic dreams, these specialties meet you
When asked as a child what you want to do when you grow up, "police" is one of the most common answers. Many children have heroic dreams, so how can this dream be realized? After graduating from high school with the ideal of serving the country, Mai Zheng became a student of police command and tactics (special police orientation) at Nanjing Forest Police College.
Here he studied martial arts, firearms, rappelling, explosion prevention, and the SWAT cadet is one of the strongest combat majors in the police academy, rich in warriors.
They will conduct real combat exercises, and they will need to organize their own teams and look for a solution to rescue the hostages.
Despite the drill, everyone was on the look, because any mistake by a SWAT officer in a real case could result in the hostage's life.
The drill looks enjoyable, a bit like a live-action chicken game.
While Mai Zheng was concentrating on playing gangsters, Zhang Jiaying, a criminal science and technology major, was participating in practical training to solve a case of poaching wild animals.
She has not yet graduated, and she is already numb to the photos of the scene such as the fall case, the corpse separation, and the rape case, because she has seen too much. In addition, she has the most contact with various animal and plant specimens, because this specialty is the only criminal science and technology major in the country that takes forest public security as the starting point.
At the training site, Zhang Jiaying had to learn how to protect the scene, how to extract evidence, and how to infer the characteristics of criminal suspects.
The troubleshooting process is very tedious, but every time she solves a puzzle, Zhang Jiaying is very happy. Also happy to solve the case is Li Ruizhe, a network security and law enforcement major, who chose to be a cyber police officer because of his heroic dream.
In their freshman year, they are exposed to the online world, data, and code, and are always ready to deal with hackers. As a game lover, Li Ruizhe feels that this is a real version of the reconnaissance game.
He received a collaborative mission to solve the "pig killing plate" scam. Li Ruizhe first went to the crime scene to collect evidence, then disassembled the electronic equipment, restored the damaged hardware, extracted the data and analyzed the data.
Finally, they have to sort out the trajectory of the suspect and confirm the facts of the crime.
In the era of network information, in order to protect people's property and life safety, the combat effectiveness and combat methods of network police need to be constantly updated and upgraded, and network police officers like Li Ruizhe have become veritable "network door gods".
If you love small animals, you may wish to come here to learn from them
Some time ago, I was talking to my colleagues about children having pets, and I thought that children also like kittens and dogs. It turned out that I thought too simply, and I was shocked by hamsters, lizards, chameleons, turtles, fish, and babies who love snakes.
I like animals, in addition to raising them as pets, I can actually do a good job.
In the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, two girls are doing serious research here, wearing camouflage clothes and riding electric vehicles to observe and record during the day, and at night they look for various small animals with flashlights.
Because he has been interested in birds since he was a child, Hong Yixuan was admitted to the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences as a graduate student in ecology and has been doing bird observation research. Every breeding season, she follows bird experts to the rainforest to find nests.
Another girl, named Liu Chenyang, is a doctor of ecology and an avian observer at the ashes level.
During the experiment, she carefully takes the chicks out of the nest to measure and gently puts them back.
Both girls' scientific research is in the study of bird breeding ecology, they need to find out when the bird lays eggs, what is the weight of the eggs, what is the order of the eggs, what is the surrounding environment of the nest, how high the nest is, where the nest is located, etc. I leave at 6 o'clock every morning, and when you are busy, you may not be able to come back until eleven or twelve o'clock at night, whether it is rain or hot sun.
But in boring field activities, there are sometimes accidents. They found two abandoned nest chicks alive and immediately decided to bring them back to raise themselves.
The two chicks also grew up and left smoothly, and at the same time, the two girls were more happy.
Unlike Hong Yixuan and Liu Chenyang, who only observe animals, Chen Siyu, a graduate student in clinical veterinary medicine, is tasked with treating animals as much as possible. She is now a preparatory animal physician at the College of Veterinary Medicine of China Agricultural University.
In her heart, in addition to her parents, her family has a dog, a cat, and a turtle. Growing up with animals, she chose this major when she wanted to take better care of animals.
The major of animal medicine belongs to the category of agronomy, and the training direction is close to medicine. In addition to theoretical studies, she also needs clinical practice. Chen Siyu needs to rotate departments before deciding on her own research direction.
In the imaging department, she needs to be familiar with various instruments such as ultrasound.
The animal in the inpatient unit was more seriously ill, and she had to stay up late and be able to cope with emergencies.
When assisting in the work of the operating room, Chen Siyu was careful and concentrated at every moment. She was amazed by the anesthesia and the subtlety of the procedure.
After completing the rotation of departments, Chen Siyu decided to continue her studies in the direction of surgery.
The documentary also introduces the student life of many majors -
For example, Xu Weizheng, a graduate student majoring in navigation, guidance and control at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, how to make artificial satellites and how to attract investment.
There is also how Yu Mingrui, a major in cultural relics conservation and restoration at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, learned to restore cultural relics with his master without teaching materials.
and how Guo Qingrui, a special education major at Nanjing Special Education Normal College, learned to communicate with autistic children.
After watching this documentary, Chang Dad sincerely sighed that there are too many kinds of majors, which is really eye-opening! Opera, ceramics, painting, cars, robotics, physics, astronomy... If everyone is clear, a tweet is far from enough, so here Chang Dad will not repeat it, if you are interested, you can take time to watch this documentary with your children.
I especially like a sentence in this film: every major is a window into the world. To adapt, every child has their own way of understanding the world and integrating into it, and exams are just one of them.
Being born as a human being, going smoothly or bumpy, is actually to explore the question of "why do people live". Living is for those who love, for lofty ideals, for a little warmth to experience, but it can never be for an exam.
In the book "My Two Students", there is this paragraph:
In the specific classroom, I fully felt that education is like a chronic inflammation, and the strong drugs, antibiotics, and hormones taken in primary and secondary school will eventually bear the evil consequences of indifference, indifference, no thinking, and no initiative in college. ...... In a crazy chase, no one can tolerate a child's failure. Children's personality, nature and vitality have been worn out without a trace, and their faces are becoming more and more similar, and have long become standardized components of factories.
A child who becomes a standardized component is difficult to gain an advantage in a world where ChatGPT is born and AI will become popular. To control the future, active thinking, imagination, creativity, and humanity are probably the more important elements. This is not only a requirement of educational reform, but also a requirement for children in the future society. How to make children better adapt to society is worth thinking about by every parent.