Some of my thoughts on education

I have always believed that the job of education is to promote the all-round development of people, not for the so-called examinations. Passing the so-called exam doesn't really mean anything.

When I was a child, I grew up in a poor family. Every day I was taught by adults that you have only one way to learn, and there is no other way to change your destiny. So I can only succumb to the baton of "achievements". I feel pain. At that time, I read Hesse's "Under the Wheel", and I was particularly impressed: it turns out that not only China, but even Germany, which is far away in Europe, has similar educational problems. (In fact, modern education all originated in Germany. It is understandable that Germany has similar problems.)

I haven't read a lot of education books, and I just gained a little bit of superficial insight based on what I thought and thought when I grew up.

The process of learning should be joyful, not painful. When I was in the first year of junior high school, I took the history test for the first time, and the test was very poor. It looks like it's only sixty or seventy. I'm going crazy: In the past, there has never been any exam that would have made me lower than 90 in math, and lower than 80 in Chinese, and when I came up with history, it gave me a slap in the face. then what should we do? Then read the book. When I was preparing for the exam, I read as a novel. (At that time, I really hated this kind of subject in exams, and I didn’t care about mathematics, physics, chemistry, and English at all.) Because the learning process is happy: you can learn a lot more things you don’t know, and you should be happy. The results can also be improved at the same time. So I think "the one who knows is not as good as the one who is good, and the one who is good is not as good as the one who is happy." It really makes sense. Learning itself must bring you happiness. Never let learning become a burden. If learning is a burden, it is better not to learn.

So I do the same with my kids. I do everything possible to find points in their entertainment where they can learn and develop their abilities. For example, doesn't he like to play jigsaw puzzles? I said, after you finish the puzzle, can you count the puzzle pieces piece by piece? I hope to use this to develop his counting ability. In the process of taking them to read, I will teach them the names of the directions: for example, the 12 o'clock position, such as the 6 o'clock position, what to look for. (This positioning method seems to be handed down in the game of Age of Empires) When I go out, I also try my best to let them learn the words they see. I will try my best to give them the best encouragement. For example, if something is successfully accomplished, I will give them a big hug. I would hold him for a long, long time, because I enjoyed the hug myself.

I really hate yelling at kids. Since I know I must have hated this behavior when I was a kid, I sure don't want me to do something I hate to my own kids. (I don't know if any of you parents have done some of the behaviors that adults hated when they were young). I have been working hard to fulfill my expectations for educators when I was a child: what kind of education I hope I received when I was a child, then what kind of education method I use to treat my children now.

I don't know what kind of progress and changes my educational ideas, concepts and methods can bring to children. I just hope that in the process of exploring this world, they can feel more happiness and understand more principles and methods to explore this world. Their academic performance itself should be a result of this goal. Maybe the result can be presented or not, it doesn't matter. At least I don't think it matters. It is my wish that children can grow up healthily and happily and have a deeper understanding of the world.