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Text |Zhan Runyan (WeChat*** Lao Zhan Rambling) The word "chicken baby" seems to have been popular in the mouths of parents for many years, but I don't know why, I always feel that something is wrong here.
When I first came across the term, I thought it was strange, why is it called "chicken baby"?So, I went online and got the answer:
"Chicken baby" is a popular word on the Internet, which refers to the behavior of parents who give their children "chicken blood", and constantly arrange school Xi and activities for their children in order for their children to read good books and get good grades in exams, and constantly let their children work hard.
And it is also one of the top ten popular words in 2021 released by the editorial department of "Bite the Text and Chew the Words".
What is outrageous is that some people actually classify "chicken babies" and divide them into two types: "meat chicken" and "vegetarian chicken".
The so-called "meat chicken" is to improve academic performance as the training direction, of course, including foreign languages, Olympiad mathematics or programming.
The so-called "vegetarian chicken" is a competition in talents and talents that are not the main academic quality education of the school, such as dance, painting, piano, tennis, fencing, violin, etc.
Of course, the vast majority of parents will give preference to "meat chicken", that is, Yushuying as the object of the chicken baby.
When the child is "chicken" better, the more outstanding child will be called "bullfrog" by parents, which means homophonic "cow baby", which means very powerful.
There is also an interesting way to say that children who are good at English are called "British cows", children who are good at math Olympiads are called "Australian cows", and those who are good at English and mathematics are called "British-Australian mixed breed cows".
Someone once asked, is it only in China that has the phenomenon of "chicken baby"?In fact, this is not the case, but one of the more accepted sayings is that Asians are more "chicken babies", and Chinese "chicken babies" are more common in Asian circles.
Someone once made a simple statistic that Asian American students now account for more than half of the science and engineering students in the top universities in the United States, but for 20 years, will these Asian American students be able to support half of the American science and technology?There are quite a few people who are skeptical.
Because, "chicken babies" may be able to help children enter world-famous universities, but will they definitely create greater social value in the future?Hardly. At least so far, most of the so-called top students have not made very amazing achievements in their current jobs.
To a certain extent, it can indeed significantly improve children's academic performance and allow children to be admitted to better schools, but at the same time, it is also easy to overdraft children's future creativity and eliminate their innovation.
Behind the "chicken baby" is not that children take the initiative to learn, but more parents want their children to learn. As a result, curiosity, the source of creativity and innovation, and the ability to ask high-quality questions are easily impaired, preventing children from gaining the ability to truly grow themselves.
You can imagine that if we have a flock of real chickens in our backyard, divide them into two parts, one part is kept in a cage, let them sleep under strong light every day, give them plenty of feed and water, and then they keep eating.
The other part of the chickens keep them free-range in the yard, and they are not very satisfied with what they are fed, and they need to learn to find bugs to eat in the yard by themselves to be full. They get up and run at sunrise and fall asleep at sunset.
How do you think these two parts of the chickens will change?If you put them together and don't give them anything to eat, will the chickens react differently between the two parts?As you can imagine, there is no need to explain it here.
And "education involution" is also another topic that many parents, teachers, and students are more worried about, and it is related to and different from "chicken baby".
We know that everyone expects their children to be admitted to their ideal middle school through their own efforts, and then to be admitted to famous universities in China and even the world. Therefore, let the children keep brushing up on the questions to prepare for the exam.
In fact, according to the country's current "Compulsory Education Curriculum Plan and Curriculum Standards (2022 Edition)", the amount of curriculum and academic volume is not very large, but in order to improve the children's admission rate, parents and schools invest more time and resources in order to let children master more knowledge, and often let children do some unnecessary repetition.
Sometimes, we, as parents or teachers, look back at the path we have taken. We admit that everyone has potential, but each person's cognitive development at different stages, that is, a person's feelings, perceptions, memories, imagination, thinking, etc. are the carriers and tools of cognition that are gradually developed and matured, rather than being "boosted" at will.
This child brushed 3 sets of questions today, and that child was not convinced and brushed 5 sets of questions. This child learns to Xi until 11 o'clock and does not go to bed, and that child does not accept and learns to Xi until 1 o'clock to sleep. Such "involution" can easily form a vicious circle of low efficiency.
Moreover, it is difficult for a person to grow to a certain stage, to achieve a certain level of academic Xi performance, and then invest time in training, and to improve again.
Judging from the admission score line of Tsinghua University, Peking University, Fudan University and other famous universities, from 2011 to 2021, the admission score line in the past 10 years has not changed significantly.
Although, in 2007, 2009, 2019 and 2022, the number of people taking the college entrance examination exceeded 10 million;In the nine years between 2010 and 2018, the number of people taking the college entrance examination every year was about 9 million, that is, 10% less than the peak.
Is it possible that the number of students enrolled and the number of target groups of these elite schools in China also fluctuate?No, but it remains in a relatively stable state.
"In a sense, the involution of education ultimately causes a waste of some educational resources for the country, and there is not much benefit for parents and children as individuals."
As a parent, I will find a way to earn money for my child to attend tutoring classes, let my child brush up on questions over and over again, and even accompany him full-time, sacrificing the best period of career development in his life.
As a child, I constantly occupy the time for physical rest and repair when I sleep, and also occupy the time for socialization and cooperation activities with my peers, and accidentally lose my happy childhood, and my physical development and development have also been affected, and even breed some psychological problems.
Chicken Baby: "No?".Educational involution "No?".
Mainly still in parents and schools.
Professor Yang Dongping, a member of the National Education Advisory Committee, can ponder the views:
Educational involution has degraded our entire education system and Xi system.
The last thing I want to add is that I'm talking about it hereSome of the drawbacks brought about by "chicken baby" and "education involution" are not to let everyone "lie flat", but to pay attention to grasp the "degree", not at the expense of children's healthy growth and sustainable development.
Lifelong grower Zhan Run.
December 12, 2023.