The \”prodigy\” who can read 2,000 words for a 2-year-old child is going viral! How to teach science?

Recently, a \”prodigy\” became popular on the Internet! The little protagonist is named He Meiqi. She is literate in 2,000 words, is familiar with the Three Character Classic, can count in English, and knows the capitals of various countries. The most convincing thing is that she is only 2 years old. In the video, large and small Chinese characters are plastered all over the wall. Whatever her father asks her, the little one can answer it accurately. During the interview, his father said that little Meiqi has shown great interest in Chinese characters since he was 8 months old, and Meiqi has a particularly good memory. He often teaches some things and can learn them quickly. Now every time she writes 30 to 40 Chinese characters, she will be taught to read them two or three times on the first day. On the second day, she will read them randomly. By the third day, she will know all these characters. And I don’t usually teach them deliberately. I just treat literacy as a toy and learn for about ten minutes every day. Many netizens compared Little Meiqi with their own babies, and expressed that she was another child from another family: Heihei, stupid and lazy girl: My family is two months and two years apart, and I always brag everywhere that I can recite five or six ancient poems. A short piece of the Three-Character Sutra, I know about 200 characters. Now it seems that I still have to keep a low profile. I wish all the babies can grow up freely and happily. Fortune teller Nancy: Other people\’s babies have never let me down. Nanyu old friend: I picked up my slippers and walked like my brother who was watching 91.com. Fang Xiaodai: I silently glanced at my daughter who was looking at Peppa Pig. From Cao Chong and Sima Guang in ancient times to the genius boys in the recent \”The Strongest Brain\”, prodigies emerge in endlessly, but our definition of prodigies seems to only stop at the mastery of knowledge. However, if you possess knowledge in advance, can you be one step ahead and seize the key to success? Many netizens also raised relevant questions about this: Ding is such a Ding: train him well and never become the second Fang Zhongyong. Su Yanxi: Are such children really happy? It\’s just something that parents use to show off. Guo Wang Yanyan: This is a typical advanced education. Before you go to school, you have to do school work. What are you going to school for? Village entrance station: It doesn’t make much sense. The child is too young and will probably forget all memories of the present when he grows up. Let nature take its course, the little child is so bookish, how scary! Netizens\’ doubts are not unreasonable, but Little Meiqi\’s father said: \”At first, I discovered it accidentally, and then I guided her intentionally, but now I just let it take its own course.\” This kind of ability to discover the child\’s interests should only limit her treatment. There is nothing excessive about guiding education. What is excessive is that everyone overly pursues prodigies, ignores the advantages of their own children, and imitates others, and also wants to cultivate \”prodigies\”. This reminds me of another prodigy Wei Yongkang who was once reported by the media. He is very similar to the baby prodigy in the video: under the \”wall\” education of his mother Zeng Xuemei, he has mastered more than 1,000 Chinese characters at the age of two, and has become a local prodigy since he was a child. What is even more outstanding is that Wei Yongkang completed junior high school courses at the age of 4, entered a county key middle school at the age of 8, was admitted to the Department of Physics of Xiangtan University with high scores at the age of 13, and was admitted to the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the age of 17, studying for a master\’s degree and a Ph.D. . However, in 2003, a piece of news about him broke out: He was persuaded to quit by the Chinese Academy of Sciences because he was completely unable to arrange his study and life.Later, Wei Yongkang\’s relationship with his mother broke out and he ran away from home. Later, he experienced several failures in school, and finally became a \”mortal\”, got married and had children. Only his mother reflected and regretted in her twilight years, which was riddled with all kinds of diseases. We cannot conclude that there is any necessary connection between the Wei Yongkang incident and the future of this two-year-old child prodigy. However, there are too many cases of geniuses who grew up to be \”mediocre\” when they were young. This can at least illustrate that knowledge alone cannot give children a bright future. s future! Nowadays, a common phenomenon rooted in current family education is that possessing knowledge is the most urgent pursuit; knowledge itself has become capital for comparison and showing off. Advanced education is not worth the gain! Some parents are eager to teach their children to read, memorize Tang poems, and do addition and subtraction, thinking that early learning will provide a high starting point for their children so that they can always take a step forward in their future lives. In fact, this is a result of anxiety and blindness. Destroy the seedlings and encourage them to grow. Nowadays, primary school education advocates unified zero-based enrollment. In addition to other factors, one of the most important reasons is that children who have studied before find that they know what the teacher tells them. It is easy for them to become complacent and even refuse to listen in class. It is not until they are in second grade that they suddenly discover He didn\’t know much of what the teacher said, and he got bored easily. Therefore, many children who are educated in advance appear to be smarter and one step ahead of their peers, but in fact this is only temporary. On the contrary, parents try their best to let their children win at the starting line, but they are more likely to lose more than they gain in terms of good habits, self-esteem, good character, etc. So in the current exam-oriented education environment, should we do nothing and let the children play happily? No, I do not deny the role of the environment and the value of education, nor do I advocate letting children do whatever they want. Real education is to awaken children according to their physical and mental development rules, rather than forcefully instilling them. There is a treasure in every child\’s heart, which contains wisdom, spirituality, truth, goodness and beauty. How to discover and open it requires us to master several principles, methods and precautions: 1. Please respect the growth patterns of children. American psychologist Gesell once conducted a famous stair-climbing experiment with twins: In 1929, Gesell I conducted an experimental study on a pair of twins (named T and C). In the 48th week after the birth of the twins, T was given training on climbing stairs, building blocks, using vocabulary and muscle coordination, while C was not given corresponding training. The training lasted 6 weeks, during which time T showed certain skills earlier than C. In the 53rd week, when C reached the maturity level of being able to learn to climb stairs, he started intensive training. It was found that with only a small amount of training, C reached T\’s proficiency level. Further observations revealed that at 55 weeks, there was no difference in the abilities of T and C. Gesell\’s research tells us that children\’s learning depends on physiological maturity. Early training before the child is physically mature has no significant effect on the final outcome. We have all heard such common sayings: turning over and over, sitting around, rolling around, and various psychological orders, cognitive critical periods, etc. This shows that human growth at each stage is regular, but at the same time Some children can’t crawl and just walk away; some children like to read books when they are only two years old; some children no matter whatNone of the guides have any interest in literacy. Every child has his or her own development pattern. They do not grow up by a clock on the wall, but by an internally fluctuating biological clock. If parents force children to do things that violate the rules, it will only be counterproductive. Rousseau, the eighteenth-century French educator, once said: \”Nature wants children to be like children before they become adults. If we disrupt this order, it will result in some premature fruits that are neither plump nor mature. Sweet, and will soon go rancid.\” Therefore, before children mature, what adults have to do is to wait for children to have the level and conditions to learn. 2. Protecting children’s curiosity is the key. I have seen many children who love to ask why, but rarely meet parents who correctly lead them to find answers. When we always answer: I don’t know! I\’m busy now! So annoying! When these words are used to perfunctory and prevaricate children, their curiosity and thirst for knowledge about the world will be lost in their little minds. How can a child who has no curiosity and thirst for knowledge be able to listen when teaching him knowledge? Therefore, when children are in preschool, we need to take them to freely explore, contact nature, engage in various activities and experiences, etc. In this process, children will encounter various problems, and we need to help them find answers to the questions in practice and in books. There is no reason why he should not be interested in learning when knowledge can solve his doubts. I think that preserving children\’s curiosity means preserving their motivation to learn. 3. Seize the sensitive period of reading to stimulate interest. Many education experts believe that the best time for children to learn to read is before the age of 6. However, children’s interest in reading is not innate and needs guidance and cultivation from parents. Therefore, during this period, the primary task is not to teach children how many Chinese characters they know, nor to teach them reading skills, but to make children interested in reading and enjoy the happiness that reading brings them. If a family has a family member who loves reading, the children will also be influenced by it; if you read picture books to your children since they were young, they will definitely be familiar with the beauty of the pictures and the text. But don’t turn guidance into compulsion, and don’t turn reading into a task. What we have to do is to use various methods to let them enjoy reading and make knowledge a happy by-product. It is worth noting that children who know a large number of Chinese characters in preschool will find it difficult to turn the words into pictures in their minds when they hear the words they know. Instead, they will link them to text symbols; while when parents read picture books, children pay attention to It is the few words that are read, rather than imagining specific scenes by looking at pictures, listening to stories, so literacy in advance will limit or even stifle children\’s imagination and creativity. Einstein once said: \”Imagination is more important than knowledge. Because knowledge is limited, and imagination summarizes everything in the world. It promotes progress and is the source of knowledge.\” In such an era of knowledge explosion In this era, talents with creative talents are in urgent need of the future. Therefore, we must not intrude adult knowledge into children’s minds in advance in the name of any utility. 4. Integrate literacy, counting and other knowledge into life. Many children know a large number of characters, can recite Tang poems, and speak English, mainly through parrot-like imitation. thisThe memory formed in this way is just a mechanical recitation, not an experience after understanding. The cognitive theory of Piaget, a Swiss child psychologist, tells us that human knowledge does not come from the external environment or the inherent program of the brain, but from the interaction between subject and object. This sentence also explains the problem of many people: \”Why can\’t I live a good life despite having heard so many truths?\” Because when knowledge is not internalized through application and becomes a part of oneself, it has no purpose other than coping with exams. Useful. Therefore, it is not that we cannot teach children knowledge, but we must pay attention to integrating knowledge into life silently, so that knowledge can be used by children. For example, if we want our children to understand numbers, we can take them to count the steps together when we go up the stairs. When eating candies, tell them that you can only eat two, or play various number games. Over time, children will understand how numbers work. thing. The same is true for character recognition. If a child is very interested in a brightly lit character on the roadside, teaching him will remember it very well at this time; and when reading picture books by pointing, the image of the Chinese character will also come in unnoticed. into the child\’s mind and form a certain understanding. Children\’s cognitive development has its own path. We can neither lower their starting point and let them go arbitrarily, nor can we raise their starting point and rush them arbitrarily. Only when parents fully understand their children\’s unique cognitive development patterns and provide appropriate guidance can they educate \”child prodigies\” in the true sense.