The recent hit TV series "Little Shed", because it is too close to reality, reflects the problem of parents' anxiety about their children's education, and detonates the hot discussion on the Internet. The ancients once said, "The love of a parent's son will be far-reaching." "But is forcing children to focus on a piece of knowledge early on, emphasizing that children win at the starting line, the right way to do it?"
After reading the 2020 best-selling book "The Boundaries of Growth", I believe you will be suddenly enlightened. The author of this book proposes a very novel theory of education in the book: try to be a generalist, don't set limits on your own life.
The author of the book is David Epstein. He is an American investigative journalist, and after extensive research on leading figures in a variety of fields including sports, arts, science, business and so on, he found that in today's world, the late success of the big is the path that most successful people have followed.
01 There are very few talented people, and more people are suitable for allowing themselves to try more and then focus on one field
The author cites the case of golf world champion Tiger Woods. Wuz is a rare talented player who showed a love of golf at the age of 10 months. The father observed his son's unique talent and did a series of professional trainings that allowed Woods Jr. to win his first victory at the age of 2, playing 48 on 9 holes at the age of 3.
As his children got older, he pocketed various awards in the industry. Woods' success is aspirational, but hard to replicate.
Another example given by the author is roger Federer, a legendary tennis player in the world.
Roger's mother is a tennis coach, but she never deliberately pulled Roger into the circle of tennis, or even "pulled her son away" from tennis.
As a teenager, Roger loved to play soccer and tennis. His parents gave Roger the opportunity to choose freely, allowing him to try slowly, and at the age of 17 he began to play professional games, really find his favorite, and slowly became one of the four stars of world tennis.
Roger, now 36 years old, is still active in the tennis arena, playing against teenagers and teenagers.
02 "A late step of specialization is the key to success."
Roger's slow-heat growth model is more in line with most people.
Allowing children to dabble in a wide range of understandings while broadening their potential.
Everyone has their own unique growth zone code, and there is unbreakable creativity.
The author lists a group of world-famous musicians from the Venetian Republic in the 17th century. They were a group of women, and poor girls who were abandoned at the door of a church by mothers who were engaged in undignified occupations and raised by charities. In order to cultivate the children's ability to be independent, the church taught them a variety of musical instruments, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, they were allowed to learn for an hour and do housework on weekdays.
It is such a group of ordinary girls, some of whom are infected with syphilis from their mothers, and who are born mutilated, and some of whom dare not go to places with many people because of smallpox. But none of this prevented them from becoming very good musicians. At one time, because of the performance of these girls, the Pitaye Welfare Institute where they lived became the center of world attention and became a tourist attraction, just like today's Litang, because of Ding Zhen, it became a tourist attraction.
03 Be a deliberate beginner
The American Oliver Smith, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Biology and Medicine, said of the quality of scientists that having a "happy culture" is one of the secrets of scientists' success.
He has a "Saturday morning experiment" that he enjoys a lot, which can be done outside of the working day, and is not related to the research topic and is of interest to him.
Smith studied insulin molecule separation and was stuck at one point. Or he remembers that when he was 12 years old, he saw his mother using starch paste to shape his father's shirt, and was inspired to study "gel electrophoresis".
"Research on creative thinkers has found that the characteristics of enthusiasm, even childishness and playfulness, are repeated in them."
In the Ai era, more and more work, the human brain will lag far behind artificial intelligence.
However, artificial intelligence has a fatal weakness: it is too refined and specialized to think and operate across industries. People, on the other hand, can learn all kinds of knowledge without boundaries.
Parents want their children to want to stand firm in the high-speed development of ai era, in an invincible position, do not have to worry about chicken babies, may wish to let children learn from multiple angles, cross-industry, and be a generalist.