What's the use of letting children memorize so many ancient poems? It's 2024, and rote memorization is encouraged!

Our Chinese teaching has been reforming, and the biggest reform in recent years is that many ancient poems have been memorized in Chinese textbooks, which is about 20% more than before. A large number of ancient poems take up too much time for children, so some parents question: What is the use of letting children memorize so many ancient poems?

For many parents, there is not much benefit for students to memorize ancient poems in large quantities.

First: It's already 2024, and children are not encouraged to innovate in science and technology, only rote memorization, and the future will only be more backward.

In the eyes of many people, the role of ancient poetry and classical Chinese in modern society is almost minimal, and it is impossible to promote the progress of science and technology. In today's world, it must be the competition of science and technology, not ancient poetry.

Today's students have wasted too much time on ancient poems, and when they have so much time, it is better to let them learn science and technology or take some physical education classes to improve their physical fitness. In addition, with the development of science and technology, any ancient poems can be searched out at any time, why do we have to memorize them proficiently? This kind of rote memorization teaching method is very unscientific, but the current Chinese teaching is precisely being vigorously advocated.

Look at the children abroad, no one learns ancient poetry, but there are still many who have become talented when they grow up. And our children, from childhood to adulthood, have memorized so many ancient poems, but are there more successful than foreign countries?

Second: Ancient poetry should be like calligraphy, let those who are interested in it learn, let alone use it for exams.

Is it very good to be able to memorize a lot of ancient poems? This is the standard set by whom? The famous scholar Chen Danqing once said: "When someone says the last sentence of an ancient poem, you will soon know the next sentence." But what if you know, what if you don't know, I don't know almost all these things in your exams, and I don't want to know, don't feel as if you need to know everything, know what the next line of the poem is, you are like a character, this is a very bad value, I hate that our exam is here. ”

But our exam is to test who can memorize ancient poems the most, not only to memorize, but also to memorize, to know the poetry and the central idea. Many children really don't have much interest in these things, but because they have to take exams, they have to study, and it takes a lot of time to learn. If we really want to promote our traditional culture, in fact, we can learn it like calligraphy, rather than forcing children all over the country to learn it.

Of course, ancient poetry, as a traditional culture, is not meaningless.

First of all, it can enrich students' knowledge and enhance their personal temperament. As the saying goes, a person who is familiar with ancient poems will naturally improve his temperament, which still has an effect on the improvement of personal cultivation and quality.

Secondly, it can help us understand the previous culture. Our country has a splendid culture of 5,000 years, but most of it is recorded in the form of ancient poems, if our descendants do not learn ancient poems, it is equivalent to a complete farewell to the past, so if you want to understand the past, you must learn ancient poems.

Write at the end:

As a teacher, I have no objection to students learning ancient poems, but I am opposed to students spending a lot of time on ancient poems, and the current language reform has just increased a large number of ancient poems.

The whole world is rejoicing in the rapid development of AI technology, and we are still immersed in the climax of memorizing ancient poems, our children do not know what AI is, and even after graduating from primary school, they have not done a scientific experiment.

What do you think about this?