As a writer in the education industry, I once felt that I was in an "information cocoon". I often see the stories of students from all kinds of prestigious schools, and the mainstream narrative of education is always composed of the stories and lives of those who are easily admitted to good universities and live a templated middle-class education.
However, judging from the data, under the endless involution of education, those children who cannot successfully go to school for the time being are the majority. There are a large number of children who are mired in school boredom, hollow heart disease and depression.
There is good news for the prevalence of depression risk among adolescents in 2020 and 2022, which has decreased compared to 2020 (from 19.0%), but another survey showed that among those children without depression, school boredom became a significant problem, with 46% of students showing a lack of interest in learning and 33% feeling a marked aversion to academic performance.
Do these forgotten and neglected "ugly ducklings" still have a chance to find an environment and become "white swans"?
Xu Kaiwen, a professor at Peking University, once appealed: "It's not that the child is sick, it's that the whole society has a hollow heart disease." Principal Zhan Danian, an educator with legendary experience, has been committed to solving the most realistic educational problems in 2011 from rural to urban and from public to private, from rural to urban and from public to private.
In this issue, we will go deep into Ugly Duckling Middle School and unexpectedly find that this school with a "problem awareness" is more "normal" than many famous schools.
Not going to school becomes a confrontation. Most of the children who come all the way to the ugly ducklings from first- and second-tier cities are "children who can't go to school normally". Unlike children from other schools, most of the children who come to the ugly duckling are "tricked" or even "kidnapped".
They are often labelled as "abnormal children" or "problem children". Some children keep their hair long without cutting it, some children can go without bathing or washing their hair for a month, some children refuse to communicate with their parents at all and respond to their parents' helplessness with silence, and some children are so irritable that they make their parents feel "unsafe".
Many of the children were sent to militarized special training schools, but the problem was not resolved under the management of fear, but worsened. As a result, Principal Zhan Danian likens the Ugly Duckling Middle School to an emergency room, ready to receive students who have been exiled or self-exiled from the standard education system.
But the fundamental reason why problem students are a problem is that our educational design gives too little space to children. In the standardized teaching and evaluation system, many children are afraid of school, feel fearful, and the school does not give them a sense of security, or they feel uncomfortable being evaluated, discriminated against, misunderstood, and misinterpreted at school.
In the modern education system, children have become the product of standardized education, reflecting the almost extinction of the yearning and pursuit of individuality, freedom, and happiness. Principal Zhan believes that the power of "teaching" in education itself is relatively weak, while the power of "education" is strong. The ideal education should emphasize the power of a child's learning. However, the modern education system was established after the Industrial Revolution, with unified teaching materials and teaching progress, and a standardized educational evaluation system, although the teaching efficiency was improved, but it also led to the gradual weakening of human nature and the hidden nature.
With the continuous advancement of modern technology, the disadvantages of traditional education have become increasingly obvious. President Zhan believes that the advent of the era of artificial intelligence shows that the era of fighting for memory and knowledge reserve is gone, and it is the trend of future education to become a real person, obtain personalized development, obtain sufficient self-development, and obtain a sense of happiness.
Of course, the innovation of traditional education concepts requires not only the change of the education industry, but also the change of parents' concepts. In the current education system, parents naturally want their children to be excellent, which is the first requirement and goal, rather than teaching their children how to be happy. It is the duty of parents to protect their children from growing up safely, not to require them to be successful.
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