Cui Yongyuan: Don’t let your children go in smart and come out dumbfounded.

Others are cultivating abilities, but we are instilling knowledge. This is a part worth pondering! My nephew was in his second year of high school and took a historical question: In what year AD did Genghis Khan\’s successor Ogedei die? Where is the furthest hit? Unable to answer, I helped him search for information, so I still remember that it was near present-day Hungary? By chance, I discovered that the American World History question was not tested this way. Its title is this: If Ogedei, the successor of Genghis Khan, had not died, what changes would have happened in Europe? Try to analyze it from three aspects: economic, political and social? One student answered this way: If the Mongolian leader had not died, the terrible Black Death (plague) would not have been brought to Europe. Without the Black Death, priests and nuns would not have died. If priests and nuns did not die, they would not doubt the existence of God. Without doubting the existence of God, there would be no Renaissance in Florence, Italy? Without the Renaissance, Spain and Southern Europe would not be strong, and the establishment of the Spanish Armada would not be possible. If Spain and Italy were not strong enough, the Anglo-Saxons would become strong 200 years earlier, the Germans would control Central Europe, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire would not be possible? The teacher said, \”Great, good analysis.\” But they didn\’t get grades, only grades A. In fact, the teacher has no standard answer to this kind of question, but everyone has to think about it. Not long ago, I went to Japan. Japan always has disputes with us on historical issues, so I paid great attention to the textbooks for high school students in Japan. Their teacher assigned high school students this question: Japan and China will go to war once every 100 years. The Sino-Japanese War (i.e., the Sino-Japanese War) was fought in the 19th century, and the Sino-Japanese War (i.e., the Anti-Japanese War) was fought in the 20th century. If Japan opens fire with China in the 21st century, when do you think it will happen? Where are the possible remote and proximate causes? If Japan wins, where will it win? If you lose, what conditions do you lose on? One of the high school students analyzed it this way: We and China are likely to have a fierce battle after Taiwan returns to China. If Taiwan returns to China, China will blockade Keelung and Kaohsiung. The Taiwan Strait will become China\’s inland sea, and all our oil tankers will go to the right, including Keelung and Kaohsiung. This will increase Japan\’s oil transportation costs. Our oil comes out of the Persian Gulf across the Indian Ocean and through the Straits of Malacca. Going up to the South China Sea, across the Taiwan Strait and into the East China Sea to the Sea of ​​Japan, this is the lifeline of oil. If the Chinese government blocks the Taiwan Strait, our cargo ships must pass there. Our battleships and destroyers will be dispatched. As soon as the Chinese navy sees Japan sending troops, it will immediately come on board and start fighting! According to judgment, this war may break out between 2015 and 2020 AD. Therefore, we must prepare for the war against China now. According to other students\’ judgments, the friction between China and Japan will begin in the East China Sea and the Taiwan Strait. The time judgment is between 2015 and 2020. Both the question and the answer are terrible. Putting aside the political factors and looking at this question, our history education is very problematic. open ourThe title of the textbook is as follows: In which year did the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894 break out? What is the treaty signed? How much land will be ceded? How much silver is the compensation? ? Every student works hard on their answers. As a result, we spent all day studying when to cede the Liaodong Peninsula, when to lose Taiwan and Penghu, compensate for 20,000 silver taels, the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1894, and the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895… We memorized everything by heart, and it was all a lot of boring stuff. number. So what, it’s all lost anyway! I gave you all the money! The main thing is what may happen in the future! Others are cultivating abilities, but we are instilling knowledge. This is a part worth pondering! Look at the education outside and then look at our education! My mother went to my nephew’s parent-teacher meeting and brought back two sets of his nephew’s exam papers. I was very curious. After taking it over and reading the test papers for current primary school students, I was shocked! What kind of bullshit education is this? Is there any hope for such an education? ? Let me tell you in detail what I saw? My nephew is studying in a famous primary school in this city and has these questions. One spring night, a man who had been away from his hometown for a long time looked at the bright moonlight and couldn\’t help but miss his hometown. So he recited a poem: ( ), ( )? I saw my nephew’s answer was: Look up at the bright moon and lower your head to miss your hometown. But behind it is a big X. I\’m surprised, these are the two sentences that came to my mind. Curiously, I asked my nephew, if this is wrong, what is the answer? My nephew said that the standard answer is: The spring breeze is green again on the south bank of the river. When will the bright moon shine on me again? Hey, this is strange, because it is a spring night, so is this sentence \”spring breeze\”? If this person who misses his hometown is not from Jiangnan, it is impossible to say the spring breeze and the green bank of the south bank of the river! ! ! It would be more accurate to look up at the bright moon and lower your head to think about your hometown. Going a step further, thinking about my hometown, a thousand people can recite a thousand different poems. Is there a standard answer to this? The next step is to write silently. The title is: We have studied the article \”Guilin Landscape\”. Please write down the following sentences silently. Then the entire paragraph needs to be written silently. What’s the use of that? What\’s the use of memorizing other people\’s words? There is another title: The text \”Hurry\” was written by Mr. Zhu Ziqing, a famous modern writer. The students all like this essay. Can you write down your favorite and most impressive sentence? What my nephew wrote is: My days are dripping in the flow of time, without sound or shadow. There is a big X at the back. The standard answer turned out to be: But, smart one, tell me, why are our days gone forever? This is even stranger. In an article, you can like this sentence, and I can like that sentence, but does my favorite sentence have to be the same? Why can’t I like the sentence “My days are dripping in the flow of time, without sound or shadow.”? Gotta love the line \”But tell me, wise man, why are our days gone forever?\” ? ? I think the topic should be \”Can you write down the teacher\’s favorite and most impressive sentence?\” That\’s right! ? Looking at other test papers, it’s even more puzzling. For example, please tell me the origin of Arabic numerals. Which country created them? My nephew doesn’t know, so ask me,I don\’t know either. I had to search and found out that it was invented by ancient Indians. Does it mean that when I eat a piece of pork, I have to know which pig farm it was raised on? Finally, there was a question that completely crushed me: Please explain the meaning of π in one sentence. The nephew replied that π means pi. It\’s strange that he typed X. It happened that my wife was studying science in college, so I immediately asked her what π meant. She said pi. The two sweated like crazy and asked their nephew for a long time. The standard answer is probably: π is a mathematical constant commonly used in the fields of mathematics and physics… If you also feel that this kind of education is helpless, please pass it on. Let more people participate in calling for change, for the sake of children and the future of the country… Don\’t let the children go in smart and come out dumbfounded!