From the uncontrollable laughter of a girl after completing her homework late at night to the study pressure of a senior in high school, it directly leads to gray hair. This is a true portrayal of the current state of education.
The lights in the house are still bright in the middle of the night. A junior high school girl finally finishes a thick stack of homework, the result of her struggle from waking up at half past six in the morning until late into the night.
She burst out laughing, as if she could release all the stress and exhaustion through laughter. The laughter soon turned into a cry, and tears welled up in my eyes before I knew it. This drastic shift in mood is more of a frustration with the lost childhood and free time.
The other scene is on the street, a child with a heavy school bag struggling to move forward. His bag was stuffed with workbooks and problem books, so thick that it almost bent his little shoulders. Such a weight is not only physical, but also psychological, and every step is unusually heavy.
The third scene takes place in a family. A girl complained to her father that she didn't even have time to play after a long hours of homework. My father's answer was about his future career and expectations, which he himself had not fulfilled. The girl's tears and helplessness were a direct response to this heavy expectation.
On the other side of the school side, children's grades are always the focus of parents' attention. A first-grader burst into tears because he scored only 99 points on an exam, because a perfect 100 is the only criterion for acceptance in his parents' world. This kind of education makes children gradually lose the joy of learning in the process of pursuing perfection.
The daily routine of senior high school students is to get up at half past six in the morning and stay in the study hall on campus at ten o'clock in the evening. The tired faces stand out between the books and notes.
One night, the teacher photographed the hair of several students, and many of them had early hair due to stress. The photo later caused an uproar on the Internet. Whether such an education system is cultivating or destroying hope for the future?
After reading these children's stories, it is really heart-wrenching. Immersed in hard reading from morning to night, carrying a schoolbag heavier than himself, and even crying and laughing, such days are too heavy to be honest.
Education is a process of enlightening the mind and broadening horizons, but now it seems more like a war without gunpowder, and every child has to carry heavy equipment and move forward with difficulty.
Is this score-only, results-based education model training future creators or a test-taking machine? Is it really what we want when children's smiles become so rare that even the most basic childhood joys are ruthlessly deprived?
Education should not only be about the competition of scores, but also about the mental health and all-round development of children. What we need is to nurture children to become thoughtful, creative, and freely expressive people, not a childhood where they lose their color under endless pressure.