After Ma Yun quit teaching, he claimed that "the tenth child is better". Why?

On September 10 Teacher's Day, Ma Yun stepped down as Chairman of Ali. After retirement, Ma Yun will return to his old job: a former teacher, who said he would spend more time on education.

Ma Yun has never given up his education. He once said that he was more worried about education than starting a business. He founded his own Yungu School and the Rural Teachers' Fund.

Ma Yun talked about education many times in his speech, and frequently broke out golden sentences, such as: "Children are more valuable than future houses"; "The primary task of marriage is to have children." ...

Ma Yun also said some amazing things about children's grades that many parents care about: Don't force children to take the third place before the exam, and children around 10 are the best.

When I was recruiting, I didn't like the top three in a class. The top three students are employed, and the probability of failure is too great. He thinks I'm the best, and I have to be the best when I come out. He collapsed after a little setback, and society didn't buy it. And what is often the best student? About ten years old, he doesn't study very hard, but he earns about ten years old. Spend time with others and learn more. "

Why not deliberately pursue the first?

It's not cost-effective to be the first in the exam. Successful consumption 10, 9 points.

Chen Shengshen, the only mathematician from China who won the highest prize in mathematics, wrote an inscription to the junior class of the Chinese University of Science and Technology: "Don't be the first in the exam".

Zhu Qingshi, an academician of China Academy of Sciences, elaborated on this sentence:

"Students in the original ecology can generally get a score of 70 or 80. If they want to get 65,438+000 points, they must work hard several times and train very skillfully without making mistakes. In order to get 100 points, we need to waste a lot of time and resources, which is equivalent to fertilizing the land 10 times. Finally, the creativity of students is obliterated. "

He compared learning to fertilization. Excessive fertilization can increase production in a short time, but it can't be sustained. In a few years, the yield will stagnate. In some places, because of the excessive use of chemical fertilizers, the soil has been destroyed and rice can no longer be planted.

The score of 90 in the first science exam shows that the most important content has been basically mastered, and it often takes a lot of effort to get 1 point and move forward. These efforts are basically memory ability and test-taking skills, and what learning really needs to cultivate is ability.

If the energy of chasing the first is used to develop other interests and abilities, the cost performance will be higher. Students have limited energy, so there is no need to squeeze into the top five or three, just keep a dozen.

Why is the 10 child most likely to become a talent?

Is there a rule among your classmates that many students who are more successful in their careers study in the same year, while most of the top students that teachers like have average careers? Why?

There is a phenomenon of "tenth place" in education, that is, after the top three, the students from the tenth to the twentieth place "unexpectedly perform well" in their future study and work and grow into "pillars" talents; On the contrary, those excellent students who were favored by teachers and achieved one of the best results in those years faded out of the excellent ranks when they grew up, and even suffered repeated setbacks in their subsequent studies and employment.

Number 10, the result is not too bad. Because he doesn't take grades and rankings as the only pursuit, dabbles in extracurricular books and hobbies, and has a good popularity in the class, the children in the upper and middle reaches have the strongest comprehensive ability.