Talking about education: Exam system makes students lose their curiosity and curiosity

When we were children, we were curious about everything around us. Why is the sky blue? Why are leaves green? Why does dad work? Why do we go to school? Children who ask questions, crave answers, and even ask more questions based on the answers. This is curiosity.

However, I don't know when to start, the children are no longer curious about the things around them, just hope that they can complete their schoolwork, and then let it go. Just to finish the homework and pass the exam, the desire for knowledge also disappears. I once met a student and asked him some things that happened around him, "How are potato chips made?" "Why do you 'er' after drinking Coke?" "Why does the phone light up?" , just to see how he would react. An unforgettable response to this day is: "The school doesn't teach it." The first time I heard this answer, I couldn't understand it at all, and then I immediately asked: "Do you know how to use your mobile phone to surf the Internet?" He said, "Yes." I asked: " Did the school teach you?" He said, "No, I learned it myself." I asked again, "If you can learn to operate a mobile phone by yourself, you can also find the answer to your question yourself." He was dumbfounded at the moment. How to respond and keep playing with the phone. As I met more students, I found that there were not only one or two students who would answer "the school did not teach", but a dozen or so.

Is our education system stifling students' curiosity and curiosity? The examination system makes students feel that "you only need to study the scope of the examination, and you don't need to worry about the rest." Several friends who are teachers around you said that many students forgot all the things taught in the last semester next semester. Something to forget this year. When I was in school, I set the goal of "passing" and "graduating", and after reaching the goal, I threw away what I had learned. Not only myself, but also many of my friends. It can be said that the biggest problem in education today is to make students learn to take "exams" rather than "seek knowledge". Not only does it fail to stimulate students' desire for knowledge, but it stifles students' curiosity.

If we talk about reforming the education system, the subject is too big to achieve drastic and obvious changes in a short period of time. But start small. With the goal of stimulating students' curiosity, when students' curiosity and interest are stimulated, they will learn independently, and they will learn deeply! There is a friend whose son is a bus fan. He can tell the types of buses in different places and times, and he can also identify various types of buses on the road and their characteristics. This is the power of curiosity and interest. This bus fan can learn about buses thanks to his dad, who gave him room to explore and bought some bus-related books for him to read. How many parents in society are willing to let their children develop personal interests? Or are there more parents who require their children to meet schoolwork? It is very painful to learn things that you are not interested in. For people like me who don't even know what elements are, it is a kind of torture to memorize the periodic table of elements, and now I can do it well. Fortunately, I love history, and it gives me a lot of satisfaction to learn about the history of various places.

Unfortunately, today's "standardized" education has stifled the curiosity of many students. Learning things that you are not interested in is very painful, and not being able to learn things you like is another pain. When I was a tutor, the happiest thing was to meet those enlightened parents, who could let me start with the things that the students were interested in and teach them all kinds of knowledge. The most helpless thing was the kind of parents who only asked the students to catch up with the school progress, completely ignoring their children. interested parents.

If children had room to explore, perhaps they would be less resistant to learning.