Since 2008, I have walked into more than 3,000 schools in 11 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country to teach new era essays.
Many children tell the truth: "I didn't dream! ”
A director of the school's moral education department said frankly: "We teachers don't have dreams, where do students get their dreams?" ”
The reasons are:1Children have no time and space to dream, and their minds are occupied by all kinds of interest classes and extracurricular classes that are only interested in making money;
2.Children don't have time to be in a daze, they don't have time to imagine the future;
3.The child is oblivious to everything around him. Unbelief? Ask your child: What do you see on the way to and from school?
4.Children are not interested in strange things, big things, small things, and new things. Unbelief? Ask the child, when did you know the call? That day the osmanthus was fragrant? That day, the birds in the trees stopped chirping, they were gone?
5.Children lack participation and experience in daily life;
6.Children are indifferent to the sun every day, they don't have time to watch the rising red sun and the afterglow of the sunset, they don't have time to play freely like our generation when they were young, and they don't have time to be obsessed with burning clouds in the evening like Xiao Hong, a great female writer in modern China, when she was a child; I don't have time to lie on the window and watch ......the starry sky like Copernicus did when he was a child
7.Parents only look at their children's points and force their children to score, and they don't care that their children love learning, knowledge, and science! Unbelief? You provide a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for children to invite Newton and Einstein-like scientists to meet with children face-to-face and talk about the world, how many parents do you think will sign up?
8.Many parents are stupid, some training institutions claim that they can open their children's eyes, no need to study, no need to make up classes, the day before the college entrance examination, the child's eye can see the exam papers, to ensure that the subjects that will be examined tomorrow have high scores, many parents sign up.
How to solve it? On the afternoon of February 2, 2024, I walked into the Songya Forum of Changsha County Library to hold the "Reading and Writing World, New Era Composition Class", where I let the children play independently, use their own language and their inner voice to say, write, and read dreams.
Su wrote: "My dream is to be a good policeman, to stand on the front line of the most dangerous and fight against criminals!" Although the risk is extremely high and my life will be in danger at all times, I am willing to take risks for the country and the people, for the sake of fairness and justice, even if I sacrifice my most precious life! When the child read this essay, he cried with excitement!
Such an essay, such a heartfelt statement, children dare not read aloud or write in school, classmates will laugh at it, and the teacher requires that the child's composition must be on par with the exam model essay.
In this "Reading and Writing the World" New Era Composition Class, I have gained 80 essays and 80 dreams!
Although these essays are written very simply, with more than 150 words and less than one sentence, they all come from the heart of the child, there are no lies, they are all the inner words of the child.
What happens when children have the opportunity and occasion to speak their minds?
It will heal children's test anxiety, build children's self-confidence, let children burst out of enthusiasm for learning, and let children give birth to great dreams!