On December 12, the "2023 Sohu Education Annual Ceremony" was successfully held in Beijing.
At the meeting, Li Zhiwei, principal of Beijing Guangqumen Middle School Education Group, said that "everyone can innovate", the key is that our education should build different platforms for different types of children, so that children can discover themselves and let them see the bigger world.
For President Li's point of view, Pinghu Yizhu deeply agreed.
What is education?In Latin, the word for education is "educate". Its original meaning is "to elicit" or "to derive", which means to trigger something that is originally latent in the child's body and mind through certain means.
Etymologically, the Western word for "education" emphasizes "internality", which is a natural activity that aims to elicit the inherent or latent qualities of a natural person from the inside out in order to become a realistic state of development.
That is to sayEducation is first and foremost an activity that conforms to the child's nature
This kind of thinking is more than 2,000 years ago, the ancient educator Confucius put forward and advocated "teaching students according to their aptitude" - according to different students' cognitive level, learning ability and their own quality, teachers should choose different teaching methods and methods, promote their strengths, avoid their shortcomings, stimulate their interests, and establish their beliefs, so that students can grow up healthily and succeed in becoming talents.
There are no two leaves of the same shape, and no two children are the same, not even twin siblings. Uniqueness is the essential characteristic of each person, the premise of children's development, and the starting point of education.
Mr. Cai Yuanpei, an educator, once said: "Education is to help the educated person to develop his own abilities." ”
In other words, education should focus on the individual development of students, understand each child to the greatest extent, gain insight into their strengths and weaknesses, build on their strengths and avoid weaknesses, and teach them according to their aptitude.
However, over the years, many of us have shouted the slogan of "teaching children according to their aptitude", but in action they have done the opposite, ignoring the differences in children's personalities, letting all children learn the same curriculum, using the same score standard to evaluate children, and turning education into a factory, no matter what the shape of the raw materials, they are processed into one shape.
After such an education, from primary school to middle school to university, each school, each class, even if there are only two people, can and must be divided into ...... of good students and poor students
Remembering a story I read many years ago:
In order to be as intelligent as humans, the animals of the forest also set up schools. Chicks, ducklings, eaglets, rabbits, goats, squirrels, ......They all became students of the Forest School, and they were thrilled about it.
In order to train students to become all-rounders, the school offers courses such as singing, dancing, running, climbing, swimming, and flying.
However, the good times did not last long, and after a month, the duckling asked to withdraw from school because he failed all classes except swimming.
Then the rabbit is about to drop out of school, saying that the swimming lesson almost killed him.
Kitty didn't want to go any further, saying that no matter how hard it tried, running was always the last ......
Eventually, all the students dropped out.
After reading this story, everyone will say that it is a foolish thing to let rabbits learn to swim. But looking at the present, how many of our schools, teachers, and parents are not doing such stupid things?
The saddest result of this kind of "stupid education" is not that more than half of the children fail the exam, become poor students, and fail to enter the university, but that a considerable number of children are short-sighted, have a fragile physique, and are psychologically depressed, and many children are overwhelmed by the pressure and ......commit suicide
Niu Peixing, the current chairman of Shanxi Peixing Hi-Tech Electric Appliances, is a doctor of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the winner of the 10th "China Youth Entrepreneurship Award", and has more than 30 invention patents.
However, when he was a child, Niu Peixing was an out-and-out scumbag in the eyes of adults: he didn't listen to classes seriously, he couldn't complete his homework, and his academic performance was at the bottom of the hundreds of students in the school. Because of poor learning, I changed schools three times in elementary school.
However, Niu Peixing has a hobby, which is obsessed with doing handicrafts. He likes to pick up some scrap parts on the road or in a bicycle repair shop, and after some "blind thinking", make some small toys, and "repeatedly teach them", becoming a pile of "mud" ...... in the eyes of adults
Niu's father no longer urged Niu Peixing to study, and according to his wishes, he was sent to the small production class of the Children's Palace to play ......
What is surprising is that Niu Peixing not only played a lot of inventions and creations, but also unexpectedly improved a lot in the study of cultural science, sang all the way, finished his master's and doctor's degrees, opened a company, and became the chairman of the board of ......directors
This really responds to President Li Zhiwei's words, "everyone can innovate" and "mud can also become a wall", but in order to let their innovation and creativity come into play, they should be like Niu Peixing's father, conform to the wishes of their children, and give them a platform to play.
Therefore, in the new year of 2024, the implementation of "double reduction" and effectively reduce the academic burden of children is not simply to do subtraction, but also to do addition, according to the children's natural potential, interests and hobbies, "subtract" the knowledge and skills they are not suitable for, do not like, and are not good at, and "add" their interest and love to do things, in order to stimulate the natural potential of each child, let their wisdom and talent be revealed, so that their "natural beauty" can be completely and freely developed.
I think this should be the proper meaning of "double reduction", the original intention of education, and the original meaning of moral education, core literacy, and quality education.
Author: Li Yuzhu, this article is the original work of Pinghu Yizhu, welcome to guide, ** or quote, please indicate the author and source, offenders must be investigated. ）