A teacher with 30 years of teaching experience bluntly said: I would rather have a child with poor grades than send him to a cram school.

01 Every summer vacation, many parents send their children to various cram schools, hoping to improve their children\’s performance through tutoring. However, a senior teacher with 30 years of teaching experience bluntly said: I would rather have a child with poor grades than send him to a cram school. Why did this teacher say this? Parents may wish to find out. In this teacher\’s opinion, many cram schools adopt a \”cramming\” teaching method, which only allows children to mechanically apply formulas and learn in a rigid way. Although this method seems effective in the short term, it does not actually improve children\’s creative and thinking abilities, but may limit their potential. The teacher gave an example: She once had a student who was always among the best in the class. This student also summarized his own learning experience and said that the secret to his success was nothing more than the word \”hard work\”. However, when everyone had high hopes for her, she failed in the college entrance examination. Although she entered a key high school, the university she eventually entered did not meet her expectations. This makes people wonder: Why do students who work so hard not get the rewards they deserve? The teacher explained that learning is not just about studying and tutoring, especially tutoring, which can easily cause some problems. 02Why does the teacher say that learning is more than studying and tutoring? Reason 1: The core of learning is not the learning results. The teacher emphasized that the core of learning is not the learning results, but the thinking process. Compared with formulas and cramming, the key is for children to think and explore problems during the learning process. If children can immerse themselves in the process rather than just focusing on the results, then they will gain more and will not just stay at the stage of rote memorization. Reason 2: cram schools are too \”immediately beneficial\”. The educational methods of cram schools are often too short-sighted, focusing on immediate results rather than long-term ability improvement. Although cramming teaching methods can improve children\’s performance in the short term, it cannot really solve their learning problems. For example, although children know how to pass midterms and finals, this knowledge does not guarantee that they will do well on the next exam. 03 How should parents educate their children? Since tutoring and studying alone are useless, how should parents educate their children so that they can truly fall in love with learning and improve their abilities? The following suggestions are for parents’ reference. Cultivating children\’s thinking ability from an early age is a critical period for cultivating their interest in learning. At this stage, parents should not use coercion to force their children to learn, but should let their children learn to think by drawing inferences from one example. Parents can chat with their children, tell them some knowledge, and then encourage them to ask questions and think. Finally, parents can answer their doubts. In this way, children will gradually become more willing to think and fall in love with learning new knowledge. Bring your children to see the outside world. Children\’s expectations and curiosity about the world are cultivated by parents who gradually guide them. Parents can take their children outside more and let them realize that the world is much bigger than home. The child is seeing thisAfter learning about the richness and variety of the world, they will be passionate and curious about the world, and this curiosity can stimulate their motivation to learn. While grades and scores are important, teaching children how to think and learn is even more important. Only in this way can children maintain a willingness to learn after graduation instead of reacting negatively to learning. Parents can refer to the above points to understand why tutoring and studying alone are not necessarily effective, and then try to educate their children in a more scientific way so that they can truly fall in love with learning and improve their overall quality. In modern society, the goal of education should not just be test scores, but to cultivate children\’s comprehensive abilities and long-term development potential. I hope parents can pay attention to this and let their children learn in happiness, grow in thinking, and become an all-round development of outstanding talents.