In today's educational environment, we as teachers seem to be facing unprecedented challenges. Why? Because the knowledge we have is no longer able to meet the needs of our students.
For example, many students now have access to knowledge faster with modern means, and it can even be said that many young people around us seem to know everything. In this regard, Bai Yansong, a commentator at the CCTV News Center, pointed out in a recent education forum: Young people nowadays do not lack knowledge, but they lack wisdom, lack of wisdom in life and wisdom of life.
He believes that modern teachers are transforming from transmitters of knowledge to transmitters of wisdom. How to transform "intelligence" into "wisdom" in future education has become a major issue of the times.
These views of Bai Yansong have a great enlightenment effect on our teachers. Let's ** together.
Feeling. It seems to me that every word has been transformed in the context of education in the new era.
How to cultivate "public morality" in the next generation? In the past, we put more emphasis on the morality or virtue of the individual, but nowadays, should we include the term "public morality" in education?
Chinese morality can be divided into two parts: the world of acquaintances and the world of strangers. Thanks to China's long-standing agrarian economy, we have the highest ethical standards in the world in front of our acquaintances.
However, once you enter the world of strangers, this constraint quickly disappears. On a plane, I once saw a man talking loudly in the cabin, and despite the dissuasion of his companions, he still said, "No one knows me here, it doesn't matter!" ”
This is what some people think in their hearts: as soon as you enter the world of strangers, moral restraint disappears. Therefore, when talking about the "moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor" aspects of education, we should first talk about how to cultivate the "public morality" of the next generation.
"A good life" emphasizes the promotion of all-round human development, and our education should also be in the direction of shaping a more comprehensive person, and the goal of education is to shape the future Chinese.
When you make it clear that the goal of education is to shape the future Chinese, you know that this must be a more well-rounded person. Shaping public morality is the primary task of "morality", and more importantly, it is more important to guide people to adhere to public order and have public morality.
One should be able to see things that are far away as things close to them and strangers as relatives. There should be such an idea in the mind that everything is focused on because it is all about me.
Education should change a lot on this basis.
How can "intelligence" be transformed into "intelligence" in the education of the future? It's a big challenge. We have seen that modern education is changing from a transmitter of knowledge to a transmitter of wisdom.
And I believe that the transmitter of wisdom should not only have a wide range of knowledge, but also be able to translate it into actions and ways of thinking. Especially in the current era of information and popularization of knowledge, students can quickly acquire knowledge through various means, and the real challenge is how to enable students to transform this knowledge into wisdom and apply it in life and work.
Therefore, how to cultivate students' wisdom in future education is a question that we need to think deeply about.
Sports are not just about exercising, but also about developing well-rounded people. President Cai Yuanpei of Peking University is one of the best presidents in our minds, he proposed the educational concept of "more well-rounded people", and in the process of cultivating more well-rounded people, he introduced sports.
We can see from history that sports have played an important role in St. John's University, the birthplace of modern sports and the Olympic Games in China. Why do older generations and educators we admire place sport in such a special place?
We should re-evaluate the word "body" of "morality, intelligence, physical fitness, beauty and labor", do we only regard "body" as the concept of health, but forget the word "education" in physical education?
As far as I know, today's children are actually inferior to our generation in many physical indicators, and there are even many children who are unable to make more than ten pull-ups in a standard way.
Sports can not only improve our physical fitness, but more importantly, develop our willpower and team spirit.
In 2012, I had the privilege of covering the London Olympics with the slogan "Inspiring a Generation". At that time, the reporter asked the people of the London Olympic Organizing Committee: How do you understand that sport can inspire a generation?
They replied that sports first teach children how to win within the constraints of the rules. Then they said the second sentence, which had a profound impact on me and was unforgettable.
They say that sports not only teach children how to win under the constraints of the rules, but also teach them how to face defeat with dignity and dignity. However, have we taught our children how to face failure with dignity and dignity?
If we fail to teach generations of Chinese how to face failure with dignity and dignity, and elevate this notion to the level of "second success," then fundamental change will be difficult to achieve.
I think that in China, innovation has to be proposed, but do we have an environment that tolerates mistakes? Do we have the notion that "failure is success"?
How can we innovate without the notion that "failure is success"? Innovation can't be achieved if everyone only wants to do predictable success, but is afraid to try the risks that may fail.
Only by allowing our children to learn to win and to face defeat with dignity and dignity can we slowly become an innovative nation.
As a result, the complexity and greatness of sport is beyond our imagination. It's not just about Chinese football, Chinese basketball, and it's not just about getting kids to exercise through running.
The goal of physical education is not "sports", but "education".
How to cultivate people with aesthetic sense? Next, let's talk about "beauty". Recently, I participated in a program in which I mentioned that many cities in China are starting to take on a new aesthetic.
I don't know if you have noticed that in the autumn of this year, Beijing, Chengdu, Wuhan, Shanghai and other places implemented the policy of "slowing down the sweeping of fallen leaves" - slowing down the sweeping of fallen leaves in parks and streets with high-quality trees, so that the beauty of fallen leaves and the beauty of autumn are presented in front of people's eyes.
This was unimaginable before, in the past, we pursued efficiency, and even hoped that "the leaves would not fall to the ground", and the cleaners needed to clean up quickly, but now, our aesthetics have finally recognized that we can appreciate the golden beauty of autumn.
It is true that in the future of China, aesthetics is a huge challenge. Because the reform is from life to a good life and then to a better life, the word "beauty" has been added, so how high are the requirements for aesthetics for all decision-makers in the future?
Are our requirements in line with the requirements of the times from the beginning, to cultivate people with aesthetics? I think that in the future development process, it is a particularly big challenge to educate generations of Chinese to have a true aesthetic that keeps pace with the times.
In the past, we emphasized manual labor, but now, with the development of science and technology, what we need is labor created by the intellect, which is also in modern society"Morality, intelligence, physical fitness, beauty, and labor"。
Our education should not only focus on the cultivation of IQ, but also on the cultivation of emotional intelligence, so that our children can handle interpersonal relationships well and control their emotions.
In this way, we can have generations of people with high emotional intelligence to promote China into a harmonious society.
Understanding: The original document is an excerpt from a speech on the theme of education and the holistic development of the person, and the new copy required to be generated needs to maintain this core idea. Generation: At the "GES2018 Future Education Conference", the famous host Bai Yansong delivered a speech "Education and a More Comprehensive People", emphasizing that education should be aimed at the all-round development of people, encouraging us to discover ourselves in learning, develop personality, realize self-worth, and guide us to become more comprehensive people.