We met with problems in the debate. We believe that the education of clean government, school education is more important than social education. How can we argue more forcefully and ask questions to e

We met with problems in the debate. We believe that the education of clean government, school education is more important than social education. How can we argue more forcefully and ask questions to each other? When I brought my nine-year-old son to the United States and sent him to that American elementary school not far from my apartment, it was like giving my favorite thing to someone I didn't trust to keep, and I was on tenterhooks all day. What school is this? Students can laugh loudly in class, let them play for at least two hours every day, and go home from school before 3 pm. What opened my eyes most was that there were no textbooks.

The blonde American female teacher saw the textbook for the fourth grade of China primary school brought by my son and said softly, "I can tell you that he doesn't need to learn math before the sixth grade!" " "In the face of her smiling face full of goodwill, I feel like I was hit by a sap. For a time, I really doubted whether bringing my son to America was the stupidest thing I had ever done in my life.

Day after day, watching my son go to school happily with an empty schoolbag on his back every day makes me feel sad. In China, his schoolbag has been full and heavy since the first grade of primary school. From grade one to grade four, he changed three schoolbags, one bigger than the other, which made people feel that the weight of "knowledge" was getting heavier and heavier. In America, he has no burden. Can this be called school? A semester passed, and I called my son to the front and asked him what impressed him most about American schools. He smiled and gave me an American English sentence: "Freedom!" "These two words hit me on the forehead like a brick.

At this time, I really miss the education in China. It seems that I have a deeper understanding of why children in China can always win gold medals in international Olympic Mathematics learning competitions. However, what happened? I can only resign myself to fate.

Unconsciously, a year passed and my son's English improved a lot. Instead of going home directly after school, he often goes to the library and carries a big bag of books from time to time. Asked why he borrowed so many books at once, he looked at the borrowed books, hit the computer and said "homework" without looking up.

Is this called homework? When I saw the headlines that the children typed on the computer screen, I was really in distress situation ―― yesterday and today in China. Does a doctor dare to do such a big problem?

So I asked sternly whose idea it was, and my son told me frankly: The teacher said that the United States is an immigrant country and asked each student to write an article introducing the country where his ancestors lived. It is required to summarize the history, geography and culture of this country, analyze its differences with the United States, and expound its own views. After listening to this, I have no strength to sigh. I really don't know what will happen if a ten-year-old child is asked to do such a project that adults may not be able to do. I only think that if a ten-year-old child is educated, he may not even be able to eat in the future.

A few days later, my son finished the homework. Unexpectedly, what was printed out was a booklet with more than twenty pages. From the Yellow River to hieroglyphics, from the Silk Road to the five-star red flag ... full of excitement. I didn't approve or criticize, because I was a little confused. First, I saw my son divide the article into chapters. Secondly, I listed the bibliography at the end of the article. I think this is the way I used to write after graduate school. At that time, I was thirty.

Soon, another composition of my son came out again. This is how I look at human culture. If the last assignment had a scope to follow, this assignment really doesn't matter. My son sincerely asked me, "Is jiaozi a culture?" In order not to delay future generations, I had to consult authoritative reference books with my son. With a lot of effort, we completed the repeated tossing from abstract to concrete and from concrete to abstract. My son sat in front of the computer for several nights and wrote articles seriously. Looking at his concentration, I can't help smiling bitterly. How does a primary school student understand the concept of "culture" with infinite connotation and uncertain extension? I hope my son who is interested in "eating" won't make a fuss about jiaozi and steamed stuffed bun. My son has become free in American education. There is no doubt that he wrote this article. This time, he printed out ten pages and his cover, and listed the reference books at the back of the article. He proudly said to me, "What do you mean by culture? In fact, it is super simple-it is everything people create to enjoy. " That confident look seems to have found the truth that others have not found. Later, the children took back the homework that the teacher had seen, with the teacher's comments on it: "The original intention of arranging this homework is to let the children broaden their horizons and active their thinking, and the result of watching the homework is often that I have entered the realm that I hope the children will enter." Ask your son what this comment on writing means.

My son said that the teacher was not proud of us, but was shocked by us. "Really?" My son asked me.

I am speechless. I wonder how the child understands so many things at once. On second thought, it is no wonder that children who dare to do cultural problems still dare not assert anything.

At the end of my son's sixth grade, the teacher left them a series of questions about World War II. "Who do you think is responsible for this war?" "What do you think is the reason why Nazi Germany failed?" "If you were a senior adviser to President Truman, what would your attitude be towards the United States dropping an atomic bomb?" "Do you think that only dropping atomic bombs can end the war?" "What do you think is the best way to avoid war today?" When I saw this kind of problem two years ago, I would definitely complain: this is not homework, but obviously pre-training for running for the Senate! At this point, I have been able to follow the truth calmly.

It is in this kind of questioning that schools and teachers convey a kind of humanitarian values to children, guide them to pay attention to the fate of mankind, and let them learn how to think about major issues. There is no standard answer to these questions in the classroom, and some of its answers may take children a lifetime to find. Watching 12-year-old son eagerly read books and look for information to finish these homework, I can't help but think of the way I studied the history of World War II in those years, memorizing the conclusions in the book as a Bible, knowing that it was pedantic. Otherwise, how can I pass the exam and have a bright future? At this time, I was thinking that in the process of pursuing knowledge, we often repeat the conclusions of our predecessors much more than our own thinking. Without your own thinking, it is difficult to have new creations.

When my son graduated from primary school, he was able to skillfully use the computer and microfilm system in the library to find all kinds of words and images he needed. One day, we argued about the foraging habits of lions and leopards. The next day, he borrowed a video of this animal from the library, which was taken by the National Geographic Society of the United States, and took me to see and discuss it. Children face things they don't understand and already know where to find the answer.

The change of my son prompted me to go back and see the primary education in America. I found that although American elementary schools didn't instill a lot of knowledge into their children in the classroom, they tried their best to attract their attention to the boundless ocean of knowledge outside the school. They want their children to know that all the time and space in life are classrooms for them to study. Instead of asking children to memorize a lot of formulas and theorems, they take pains to tell them how to think and teach them how to find answers in unfamiliar fields. They never use exams to divide students into three or six grades, but do their best to affirm all the efforts of children, praise all the conclusions of their own thinking, and protect and stimulate all the creative desires and attempts of children.

Once, I asked my son's teacher, "Why don't you let your child carry something important?" The teacher smiled and said, "For a person's creativity, two things are more important than rote memorization: first, he needs to know where to find much more knowledge than he can remember;" The other is his ability to comprehensively apply this knowledge to make new creations. Rote memorization will not make a person rich in knowledge, nor will it make a person smart. This is my opinion. "

I can't help thinking of a conversation between me and a good friend of mine. He studies astronomy. From the first day he entered the graduate school of an American university to the whole five years when he got his doctorate, he has been enjoying the generous scholarship offered by the department with excellent results. He once said to me, "I think it is very strange that if Americans get scholarships based on their academic performance in class, they are often no match for China people, but in practical fields and when they are engaged in research projects, China students are often not as smart and creative as American students." I think his feelings may be the difference between people caused by two different basic education systems. China people are so used to traveling within a certain framework. Once they lose the conventional reference, many people in China may often feel panic and loss instead of freedom.

I often think of China's primary education, where children sit straight behind their hands in class, heavy courses, countless homework and strict exams ... It makes people feel sacred and dignified, but it also makes people feel greatly depressed and bound, but many generations have obeyed its will and regarded it as a way to change their destiny. This is the continuation of culture, which may have its own glory, but in the face of the information society that needs everyone's creativity and the world of tomorrow, how should we examine this civilization that has given birth to ourselves?