There is a popular slogan in China: Don't let your children lose at the starting line. This "starting line" refers to the education received by children, and people think that children have received a good education in order to have a strong competitiveness and gain a head start in the fierce social competition.
In other words, Chinese believe that education can determine the fate of man.
Although India is a country that is very different from Chinese culture, it also has such views. The movie "Starting Line" tells the story of a middle-class Indian couple, Raj and Mitu, who went to great lengths to get their daughter Pia into a prestigious school in order to get her daughter A good education. Although the film is a work with a strong comedic color, it is quite serious and reflective in its core appeal.
Today's borderless parenting wars have evolved into a pervasive social problem in Asia, where population bases are large and quality educational resources are scarce. In the movie, you can deeply appreciate how parents are exhausted, endure humiliation, and even unscrupulous means in order to make their children achieve a class transition in the future or at least maintain their current class status.
Today's increasingly young age in educational competition is, to some extent, people's instinctive reaction to the awareness of the crisis of development of future generations. After the fermentation of this fear of falling behind, this mentality of being afraid of falling behind has formed a strange circle of so-called "one step backward, one step behind" - children cannot go to a good primary school, they cannot go to a good middle school; if they cannot go to a good middle school, they cannot go to a good university; if they cannot go to a good university, they cannot find a good job...
All parents who are obsessed with providing the best education for their children tend to overlook what is best for their children. But the irreversibility of growth makes "the most suitable" a paradox that cannot be tested. For the vast majority of parents, they simply and rudely believe that the best is the best for their children.
In fact, children should be most respected for individuality in education, cultivated in a more scientific way, communicated with different currents of thought, and learn skills and methods that are in line with the world.
Such educational topics, which are widely concerned by society, are also the focus of attention of the deputies and members of the national two sessions.
"Students without scores can't pass today's college entrance examination, but children only have scores, and I'm afraid they can't win future exams." Education only focuses on the rate of further education, and the country may not have core competitiveness; scores are not the whole content of education, let alone the fundamental goal of education. At the two sessions of the National People's Congress this year, Tang Jiangpeng, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and principal of Xishan Senior High School in Jiangsu Province, recently aroused heated discussion at the second "member channel" of the fourth session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
It is true that today's children are developing well and growing well, but the physical fitness of children needs to be improved urgently. He believes that a good education should cultivate lifelong athletes, responsible people, problem solvers and elegant people, and give children a sound and excellent personality.
The overall quality of today's children is the overall strength of our country's future, that is, the happiness of our society, and education should be "bacon, casting the soul, enlightening the intellect, and moisturizing the heart."
President Tang Jiangpeng's words have aroused wide resonance, "We can not only be excellent students, but also be excellent people" "Teaching and educating people, not only to cultivate achievements but also to shape personality"; some people say, "Education should start from cultivating children's independence and hands-on ability" "Interest is the best teacher is also a lifelong teacher, cultivating children's interest and stimulating their independent learning ability and exploration spirit is the most important." ”
Education has never been more than just educating oneself. The level of education in a country depends not only on the level of the education system itself, but also on the level of education of the whole society on which the country's education system exists.
In our tradition, "the teacher preaches, teaches, solves problems," and a true teacher can lead students to open the door to a new world. The soul of education should be leadership, a kind of spiritual guidance. This kind of leadership means that one tree shakes another tree, one cloud pushes another cloud, one soul awakens another soul, and education with a soul pursues an infinite and vast spiritual life and pursues the ultimate value of mankind.
As the great plan of the country and the great plan of the party, education always stimulates heated discussion in society, because it not only affects countless families, but also is an important cornerstone for promoting national rejuvenation and social progress. Everyone is full of expectations for how to run the people's satisfactory education in the "14th Five-Year Plan" period and achieve higher quality development of education. Tang Jiangpeng said that when deliberating on the draft outline of the "14th Five-Year Plan" development plan, the committee members noticed that education has been proposed as a special chapter, and "its title should become the consensus of all sectors of our society, that is, 'improving the quality of the people and promoting the all-round development of the people'." ”
"What is the meaning of education, education is not only for children, but also for parents." The impassioned speech of Indian Father Raj in "The Starting Line" not only has laughter and touching, but more importantly, triggers our reflection on education, allowing people to substitute the thinking in the movie into reality and echo with the present.