"Chinese-style education", in recent years, has inexplicably become a "hot search physique".
The new words of the web are one after another.
"Xueba", "cramming education", "chicken baby".
Even in the field of film, there are films with in-depth vertical depictions such as "Learning Dad".
Parents are tired, students are suffering, and Chinese-style education seems to be the culprit of all problems.
Some people even said: "Chinese-style education is a kind of brainless education, which can only teach children who can take exams." ”
The implication is that Chinese-style education has long been unsuitable for modern society, and Western-style education that focuses on happiness and freedom is the best choice for children's healthy growth.
Has Chinese-style education really been obsolete by the times, or has it been stigmatized and demonized?
In 2015, the University of London and the BBC conducted such an experiment:
They invited five top secondary school teachers from China to come to Bohang School in the UK.
In the next month, 5 teachers will use Chinese education methods to have a PK competition with local teachers.
They want to see which of the students taught under the Chinese and Western education has the better grades?
The experiment was produced by the BBC into a three-part documentary, "Are Children Strong Enough, Chinese Education", which caused heated discussions on the Internet abroad when it was broadcast.
Not only that, but the final result of this competition has even affected the entire education landscape in the UK.
Although 8 years have passed since the broadcast of this film, Brother Pi is still shocked after watching it.
British students are no longer the British model we imagined, but change into uniform school uniforms, raise the national flag with Chinese teachers, do radio gymnastics, and do eye exercises.
But the experiment was not all smooth sailing, and every step was fraught with uncontrollability;
The drama of Chinese teachers vs. British students is staged almost every day.
See at the end you will find.
The so-called inhumanity of Chinese-style education and the freedom and happiness of Western-style education are not the whole truth.
At least what this documentary gives is not the standard answer we are familiar with.
01、
Her name is Yang Jun and she is one of the five Chinese teachers.
Although he has also taught in the UK, Yang Jun prefers the Chinese education system.
In China, when it is time for class, the classroom will naturally maintain a quiet and serious atmosphere;
As a teacher, students will follow the teacher's uniform arrangement and will be generally respected by the students.
But when he came to England, the authority of the teacher was ignored by the students, and the practice of respecting the teacher no longer applied.
She has to deal with a loose, free, and unfettered British student.
After coming to Bohangte Middle School, Yang Jun saw a lot of strange things that made her speechless.
For example, some students cry so much that they can't help themselves because their favorite band is disbanded before the exam.
The worst thing is that in class, students are noisy, laughing, chewing gum at will, and the teacher doesn't seem to exist;
There are even students who bring teapots and teacups to drink tea in class, posing for leisure and health.
In China, as long as students do these bad things, they will inevitably be punished and called their parents;
But in British schools, this is not a big deal, and you will not be reprimanded by teachers.
It can be seen how difficult it is to get such a group of loose and accustomed students to change their attitude towards learning Xi and integrate into the regulations of Chinese education.
As the saying goes, there are no rules, and at the beginning of the Chinese course, Yang Jun set rules for this group of British students.
For example, during class, students should all stand up and say "hello teacher";
During the lecture, she would also constantly emphasize classroom discipline, admonishing them to sit in a correct posture and not allow them to talk to each other.
Students who do not follow the discipline and do not listen to the teacher's stop will be punished outside the classroom.
However, these rules were not implemented smoothly, and most students went their own way.
Even the killer feature of "calling parents" has lost its power, because in the eyes of British parents, this kind of discipline problem is not their responsibility, but the school should be responsible.
What frustrated Yang Jun the most was the resistance from his academic Xi.
Every time she goes to class, she writes down the content on the blackboard and asks the students to take notes.
This way of Xi in China has been collectively opposed by British students.
In their opinion, such copy-and-paste learning Xi do not need to think on their own initiative at all, and it is extremely boring.
Yang Jun also admits that this one-size-fits-all teaching method stifles students' imagination and creativity to a certain extent.
But in such a competitive environment, this method is the best choice for good results.
But a week has passed, and the students will not be able to.
This made Yang Jun feel quite frustrated, and she asked herself if it was because she didn't prepare for class?
After teaching for more than ten years, she felt confused for the first time.
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The chubby boy's name was Joe, and he was the brightest of the students.
But in the face of China's physical test, Joe's self-confidence collapsed in an instant.
In the 1000-meter run, when the other boys completed the test one by one, only Joe was still running with a snort, already approaching the limit of his physical fitness.
Although he finished the whole race, Joe sat on the ground with his face covered and cried quietly, his face flushed.
Joe couldn't accept that he was being watched by everyone, and although everyone was cheering him on, it made him feel like a piece of waste even more.
It's not just Joe who is breaking down.
Philippa, the top student in the class, is a typical perfectionist.
She has to do her best in her studies and Xi, and she is willing to accept the strict control of Chinese education.
But like Joe, sports testing is Philippa's Achilles' heel.
The shot put failed again and again, the running performance was average, and the sit-ups had not yet passed.
The blows of the physical test made Filipa can't help but go crazy, crying that he couldn't do it at all.
In the face of the suppression of personal enthusiasm by Chinese-style education, some students began to launch a counterattack.
For example, Josh, his Xi grades in the past were not bad, and his Xi was considered hard.
But he couldn't accept the attitude of Chinese education towards students, and in his opinion, he could only be at the mercy of teachers and did not allow students to express their own opinions, which was no different from dictatorship.
So he brought the electric kettle to school, took out bread to nibble on during class, ignored the teacher's warnings, and protested with these rebellious acts.
And Luca, a boy who looks very well-behaved.
Seeing that the students in other classes had already finished school and had to go to Xi after dinner, Luca missed his old school days even more.
Finally, on the evening of that day, Luca escaped the make-up lessons that Mr. Zou gave him and several other classmates to watch the eighth grade ball game.
In the heat of the game, Luca finally felt the same feeling as he used to feel at Bohang High School.
Sophie, who is recognized as a "problem student" by all teachers, is also a tricky thorn.
Hearing the teacher say that they were learning slower and less than the Chinese students, Sophie was unconvinced and angrily said that she was going to boycott the class.
When Teacher Yang asked Sophie to go outside the door to reflect, she couldn't hide a smile on her face.
She didn't take it as a punishment, and she found it funny because she didn't feel like she had done anything wrong.
Sophie is also very uncomfortable with the high-intensity Xi of Chinese-style education.
In her opinion, she came to school to socialize and make friends, not to be forced to study Xi here.
At the end of the two weeks, the British students were still not used to Chinese education.
Students' resistance to Chinese-style education seems to have announced the failure of Chinese-style education early.
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He is Zou Hailian, the only male teacher among Chinese teachers.
As a mathematics teacher, Zou Hailian can be regarded as one of the top "head figures" in China.
The students in the class are able to keep up with the teaching progress, and the math scores have always been at the top, which makes Mr. Zou always proud.
But after coming to Bohangte Middle School, Mr. Zou realized that he was "underestimating" the students here.
He didn't expect this group of British students to be so undisciplined, and they often couldn't catch the students' attention during class.
Not only that, but the students were often confused about what he was saying.
Because they can't understand and can't keep up with the teacher's rhythm, they lose interest in continuing to learn.
Some students even questioned what is the use of learning mathematics and can they still use it after graduation?
This made Zou Hailian feel very helpless: he didn't expect the students to be at such a level, and they didn't pay attention to mathematics at all.
After a short period of trouble, Mr. Zou decided to take the initiative to change.
He first started with Chinese culture and "co-opted" the students.
In the following time, he and several other Chinese teachers took the students to fan dance, make dumplings and make paper-cutting.
Ms. Zou understands that the most important thing is to restore students' confidence in learning Xi and understand the thinking patterns of Chinese students.
So he ordered a batch of "Nine Links" from China, which is very Chinese characteristics of educational toys.
He told the students not to be in a hurry and slowly explore ways to unravel the Nine Rings.
Sure enough, the enthusiasm of the students was immediately raised, especially Joe, who was the first to unravel the Nine Rings.
This small achievement puts Joe in the center of the class, and everyone is asking him for help and talking to him.
The confidence that was taken away by the physical test began to return to Joe little by little.
For Luca, who skipped class, Mr. Zou also adopted an "encouragement-oriented" countermeasure.
He knew that Luca's foundation was not bad, but he chose to escape because he couldn't keep up with the progress of his school Xi.
So he told Luca that you're smart and you have the potential to do better.
The encouragement and trust from the teacher gave Luca the idea that he wanted to perform well.
With the soft and hard work of Chinese teachers, the scattered Chinese-style education classes seem to have begun to take a turn.
04、
The man who always stood behind the classroom and watched secretly was Neil, the principal of Bohang Middle School.
From the very beginning, Neil took the results of this experiment very seriously.
In his opinion, this is not only a simple experiment, but also a battle of honor about British education.
Neil doesn't quite understand some of the forms of Chinese-style education.
For example, he didn't quite understand why there were so many students in a class in Chinese-style education.
Because secondary schools in the UK have small class sizes, teachers can teach students according to their aptitude and divide the teaching according to the level of the students.
He also doesn't like the classroom model where the teacher just stands on the stage and speaks, and the students just take notes below.
They are like robots, they can only passively accept rather than actively learn Xi.
Neil joked that it would be a heavy blow to him if this method of learning Xi would win in the end.
Despite his doubts about Chinese teaching, Neil admires Chinese students' radio gymnastics and even wants to promote it to the whole school.
To a certain extent, broadcast gymnastics is actually a kind of collective spiritual cultivation.
It is in this way that Chinese teachers transform their students in a way that is characteristic of Chinese culture.
For example, the fan dance and dumpling making mentioned above, and even the eye exercises done between classes, are all subtle ways to let students integrate into Chinese education as soon as possible.
Even the "Speech under the National Flag" ceremony was moved by Chinese teachers.
As we enter the last week, the Chinese education spots are becoming more and more like a collective.
Everyone did exercises together, practiced dance together, stayed up late and worked overtime to Xi together.
Many students have also discovered the benefits of Chinese-style education during the Xi process:
Before the exam, they only need to look through the notes they made in class to master these knowledge points that they have long forgotten.
Although they don't talk about it, the British students are working hard, and almost all of them have Xi late into the night.
A few days later, the results were revealed.
From math to Mandarin to science, every grade in Chinese education is comprehensively crushed.
Neil, who has always been skeptical of Chinese education, was also convinced at this time and kept congratulating several Chinese teachers.
05、
Judging from the results, Chinese education has won a big way.
But some people also questioned whether the Bohang High School selected for this experiment could represent the high level of the United Kingdom.
Pi Ge specially checked, in the whole of the UK, Bohang High School is the best public school, and its results rank in the top ten in the country all year round.
What is even more surprising is that most of the good grades of British students actually come from private schools.
According to statistics, 90% of the top 100 schools in the UK are private schools.
As for why this situation occurs, it is mainly because public school students are exempt from tuition fees, and their basic survival after graduation will be guaranteed.
This means that even if students do not work after graduation, they can live on government benefits.
With the government to give back, who is willing to struggle?
Unlike private schools, not only are tuition fees high, but also Xi is particularly competitive.
Take Eton College, the most well-known school in the UK, for example, the tuition fee for a semester is about 240,000 yuan, which is enough to turn away students from families who are not wealthy.
There will be a test at the end of each semester, and the grades will be divided according to the grades, and if you don't do well, you may repeat the grade.
It can be said that private schools like Eton College are specially opened for elites, and the purpose is also to cultivate high-end elites.
You can choose not to roll in, like a public school student, but this is equivalent to not being with the "elite".
So to a certain extent, the so-called happy education in the West is, to put it bluntly, a "fairy tale scam".
British students want to enter the top of society, but also to roll up crazy in their academic Xi and speak with their grades.
After this experiment, British officials also showed their recognition of Chinese education.
The British government's investment of more than 40 million pounds in the following four years for universal Chinese-style education is the best proof of this.
It is undeniable that there are problems in Chinese-style education.
For example, the various notification documents issued by the superiors reflect some.
Students do not go to class sick, homework is not mandatory when students are sick, and normal activities between classes are ensured.
These things that should be normal need to be implemented one by one.
This kind of rigidity of "let you do what you do and then do it" is the most criticized part of Chinese education.
But the fact is that most of the high-profile characters in society are cultivated under the high pressure of Chinese-style education.
In a society where competition is so fierce, perhaps Chinese education is still the most suitable choice for us at the moment.
But that doesn't mean that Chinese education can be done once and for all, and that no changes need to be made.
Just like the introduction of the Chinese education model by British education, in fact, we can also learn some things from British education.
For example, teaching students according to their aptitude, such as caring for each student, these are all lacking in Chinese education.
At the end of the documentary, Mr. Yang Jun said this sentence may be the most important question for Chinese education.
We teach you knowledge, and you learn, but what about students who are not used to this way of learning Xi Xi?
Allowing different students to find their own Xi learning methods is the ultimate meaning of this documentary to the audience.
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: Ah Zhi
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