#春日生活打卡季#
Indeed, Chinese students are too miserable! The experts are very sympathetic to them and constantly want to help them lighten their burdens, hoping to let them spend a happy childhood and adolescence, and by the way, let them be full of innovative ideas and master the ability to innovate. All kinds of burden-reducing efforts have been exhausted, as have all kinds of joyful teachings, but they seem to have little effect, or even counterproductive.
Why is that?
Because of the involution of the life of the lower classes.
The involution of education is actually the involution of parents, which is a reflection of the social life at the bottom.
However, the experts are divorced from the masses, from China's national conditions, and from China's reality. They are constantly tossing and turning, tossing education to death, teachers to death, students and parents to death.
Take, for example, reducing the amount of time elementary school students spend in school. This is indeed to ease the burden on the children. However, they don't take into account how tired parents in China are! Children are leaving school early, but parents don't have time to pick up their children early and spend time with them. Children have to stay in school or tutoring classes, which increases the burden on parents because they need to pay an additional late service fee or tutoring fee. This is a classic example of how unrealistic reforms are often counterproductive.
Chinese children are tired, parents are also heartbroken, they also want their children to sleep until they wake up naturally, but also want to take time out to accompany more, but also want to take them around to travel, taste food, enjoy the beautiful scenery, but how many people can achieve it?
Everybody's tired.
Education experts don't see that the parents of students work 10-12 hours in class, have to farm in their spare time, have to do other side jobs to increase their income, prepare for students' tuition, prepare to buy a house, and prepare to get married after graduation.
If China's welfare reaches the level of Switzerland, Sweden, Norway and other countries, everyone has no worries, no need to worry about housing, no need to worry about tuition, no need to worry about bride price, no need to worry about illness, no need to worry about pension, the pace of life of Chinese parents will naturally slow down, and Chinese children will not have to work so hard in their studies, and they will not need to be so hard.
I don't think this is actually an involution, this is the inevitable path that China will take from a weak to a strong one, and workers, peasants, industrialists and businessmen, and other broad masses of the people are all competing fiercely, striving for the upper reaches, and are full of vitality. Their descendants are also working hard, which embodies the excellent tradition and quality of the Chinese nation of diligence and tenacity. What is wrong with everyone working hard to make progress, striving for a better life, striving to live a more decent life, and through legitimate means? The workers work hard to work well, the peasants work hard to cultivate the land, and the businessmen work hard to run the business...... Their children study hard, and everyone does their part.
Of course, the other side is the cruelty of life - failure in competition means failure in life, without good material living conditions, even a daughter-in-law cannot be married, and marrying a daughter-in-law cannot provide a better education for future generations...... It's always such a vicious circle, so it is understandable that they strive to break this spell and enter the upper echelons of society, forming a virtuous circle.
But the experts and scholars did not see all this, and they wondered, why are you so introverted? Why don't you sleep until you wake up naturally? Why don't you treat learning as a pleasure? Why don't you take work as fun? Why don't you take your children out on a trip? Why don't you do what you like......
During the reign of Emperor Hui of the Jin Dynasty, there was a great disaster one year, and the people had no food to eat, so they had to eat bark and grass roots, and many people starved to death. When the minister reported to him the terrible situation caused by the disaster, the emperor asked in astonishment, "Why don't the people eat minced meat without corn to satisfy their hunger?"
The only way for the grassroots masses to rise is education, and they do not have good families such as Zhou Gongzi. The elders of the Zhou sons have arranged for them the most leisurely and lucrative jobs, and even if they don't have such jobs, sufficient wealth can allow them to live a very decent life. The children of ordinary people can only study hard, use other people's sleep time and play time to study, and strive to get into a good high school, then a good university, a doctorate, and then a tobacco assembly line or urban management.
Putting that aside.
Is learning joyful?
Objectively speaking, it is not, it is a kind of drudgery for the vast majority of people, like labor.
Of course, whether it is studying or working, there will be people who get a sense of accomplishment and happiness from it, but this is a very small number of people. Even if it is a Confucian saint, he learns happily and forgets his worries, not because he thinks it is very natural, but because he thinks it is something worth showing off. When a certain big man asks his students about his current situation, he tells them that he is learning to forget about sleep and food, and to forget his worries.
Therefore, for the vast majority of students, learning is not happy, learning needs will, motivation and motivation, interest stimulation, desire stimulation, and supervision from parents and teachers.
You have to turn bitter and sour things into sweet and fragrant things, and this is nondescript. Education is not cooking.
Now experts are not only engaged in happy learning, but also take the visualization and situational learning to the extreme, ignoring the abstraction and generalization of education. The Tao Te Ching's description of the Tao is actually abstract, and its figurative descriptions lead people astray. Figurative thinking is useful in art, and abstract thinking is useful in philosophy and natural science. I hope that experts understand this, and that in addition to children with artistic talents, others will develop their abstract thinking skills. It's okay to turn the class into a sitcom, do it occasionally, increase your interest, and liven up the atmosphere, but it can't be the same.
Now I have a happy exam. They are always worried about the destruction of children's young hearts, always protect them like a protective glass, and always protect them like flowers. While Japanese children are developing an adventurous and resilient spirit, our children are instead being put in a greenhouse.
I just read a clarion call praising my quality education in Shandong, saying that ranking second and engaging in competition is cruel to students, and how warm it is to say that I don't take exams...... Some friends replied, what should we do if we don't take the exam in the first and second grades, but what should we do if we take the exam in the third grade? Let's extend it further, don't take the high school entrance examination? Don't take the college entrance examination? Step into the society, don't take part in the competition for appointments? Don't participate in any competition? This is obviously out of touch with society! This is clearly cultivating a glass heart! The warmth of the school and the cruelty and ruthlessness of the society form a huge contrast, and when they are at a loss in the face of this contrast, isn't this cruel to them?
At the beginning of quality education, parents who were dissatisfied with Chinese school education took their children out of school to educate themselves, or participated in some kind of private school-style education, why are they silent now? Why is it difficult for them to adapt to life in China when they send their children to study abroad? Because their education abroad is only suitable for the national conditions of a foreign country.
School is a small society, and we don't want children to be baptized and tribulated by society from an early age, and eventually they will not be able to integrate into society. We see that the American-educated son who "makes a small goal first" seems to do nothing but lead a group of women around to have fun.
Therefore, our educational reform can only be fine-tuned, and as society progresses, it is enough to keep up with the progress of society. Our educational reform can only be carried out within the framework of China's national conditions and China's actual conditions.
Don't think that the involution at the bottom of us is too serious, it is our involution that makes China quickly strong, less than 50 years of reform and opening up, China is so strong that the United States is nervous, and it is the hard work of the people at the bottom who have created huge wealth day and night.
If you really want to lighten the burden a little, you should be strict with the schedule of high school students and their holiday arrangements. I went to high school, in fact, that kind of work and rest time does not improve academic performance, on the contrary, I can't sleep every day, my study efficiency is very low, and I am prone to neurasthenia, and even serious mental problems. As long as the holiday arrangements are strictly regulated, the weekend rest is strictly regulated, and the daily wake-up and bedtime is strictly regulated, it is not so stressful and students can wake up, which is good for students' academic performance and physical and mental health. Some people who are particularly fond of studying, if they are willing to work harder, let them work hard, so that most ordinary students have enough time to exercise, relax, and sleep, this is the real reform.
Nine years of compulsory education, maybe the big cities are more involuted than below. I don't know the specific situation in the big cities, so I don't dare to make arbitrary comments. With my 32 years of experience teaching in rural schools, experts are worried about children's tiredness, while my colleagues and I are worried about children's lack of learning. Experts think that the children work hard and work like little adults, but in reality, there are not many of them in the class who really study hard. Their myopia is mostly tired from playing mobile games and watching videos, rather than from doing homework. And the experts think they know more about education than I do.
Learning, like any activity, requires talent. Some people have hearts, some people have clever hands, and we must admit that people have personality differences. Don't the experts shout every day to liberate their individuality? So why do they have to demand the same thing? What is the difference between everyone taking the exam and everyone not taking the exam?
As long as there is a college entrance examination, all reforms should not conflict with it, otherwise it will be counterproductive and will further increase the burden on students and parents. As long as educational reform is carried out in China, it must be suited to China's national conditions and actual conditions.
When will the experts' ideals be achieved?
When you reach a communist society, you can.
Some people think that communism is impossible to achieve, but it is too pessimistic, like some small countries in Europe, communism was basically realized in the capitalist countries first. The living is particularly secure, the working hours are particularly short, and the dirty work, tiring and dangerous work is solved by foreign laborers, who are only responsible for enjoying life. It is said that Singapore will also introduce a four-day work week. Such a life is really not tiring and does not roll, but only if the country is particularly rich. However, if national life is less involuted and their competition is weaker, will high welfare be able to be maintained for a long time?
I believe that moderate involution is a necessary condition for keeping a country and a nation vibrant.
Some experts, especially officials and experts, or when officials do not change jobs to become professors, scholars, and experts, do not be self-righteous and really think that their own set can save China and save China's education. When I was a student, so many people who went abroad to study and so many who returned to China brought so-called advanced experience that did not conform to China's national conditions, and it was a basic fact that there were many peasants and few workers in China, but they still had to win the victory of the Chinese revolution through the workers' revolution, and as a result, they caused great losses to the Chinese revolution. He was only a teacher, he had never gone abroad, he had not learned foreign experience, he only proceeded from reality and sought truth from facts, and as a result, he led the Chinese to victory in the revolution.
There are also some experts, whose reform and innovation is innovation for the sake of innovation, and engaging in showmanship.
In short, regardless of the starting point and motivation of these two types of experts, their concepts and ideas do not conform to China's national conditions. The former is pedantic and self-righteous, and the latter is deceitful and only for fame and fortune.
If China's children are not involved, parents need to continue to work hard, and experts need not to make trouble. When the common people have no corn to satisfy their hunger, of course, there is no minced meat. If you don't let them roll in, you are depriving them of their survival and their right to live better. You don't lack anything, you roll into the meat, the rich look for the rich, the common people don't want to be poor, they also want to be rich and noble. So, you tell them that hard work can make them rich, and they understand whether they can get rich or not. You advise them not to roll in, especially if the children don't have to be so tired, they know what to do.
What China lacks is truly pragmatic experts, but pragmatic experts are often unsatisfactory and have no right to speak.