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Chapter 369 China Education Reform

"According to my understanding, the current education model in Pretty Country is divided into three levels: low-level exam-oriented education, middle-class quality education, and top-level elite education." Chen Hao said after thinking for a while.

As a top student at MIT, I have sometimes discussed this issue with my friends.

The class stratification and solidification of education are vividly displayed in the beautiful country.

The children of the poor are almost poor, and their pre-university education is in public schools.

Foreign public middle schools and domestic public middle schools are two different things!

Like the famous Ivy League schools, almost all the middle school students admitted are from private high schools, and there are too few public middle schools!

why?
Because their public middle schools are all funded by local state finances, the value of their existence is only to attract votes and reduce crime rates.

Happiness education also refers to this kind of education. For example, the tuition fees of private high schools are not low, and all the students studying there are middle class and above.

And the exam-oriented education received by the bottom of the society in the beautiful country, to put it bluntly, is to turn the children of the bottom of the beautiful country into a useful social tool.

But for the lower class, exam-oriented education is also the best education, because at least it can enable future generations to have a job.

The quality education of the middle class is more about the cultivation of quality expertise or more talents.Such as singing and dancing, painting, and the ability of independent thinking, oral expression, social interaction, organizing groups and exploring problems.

Exam-oriented education blindly instills knowledge into students, and the articles are purely memorized by rote, while quality-oriented education allows you to do it in your own way, and then tells you why you do it. Give strangled consequences.

As for the core of elite education at the top, there is only one thing: to cultivate their decision-making ability.

Such schools often do not pay attention to any discipline.

Why?Their concept is: you are the master of your boat, you decide how fast or slow to drive, what he wants to teach is to learn how to decide your speed.

In such a school, if you have a history class, the teacher will not arrange any movies to be made. It is all about middle-class children, and the teacher will often lead such discussions.For example, during the Boloponnesian War, what mistakes did Pericles make and what mistakes did the citizens of Athens make? This kind of discussion may last for a day. The core mission of this kind of education is to let Children learn how to choose and change the world, this is the education of top elites.

Children under the three different education models will all be gathered together in the end, but with different identities.The children of elite education become bosses, the children of quality education become middle-level managers, and the children of exam-oriented education become low-level employees.

"You're right. This is the most obvious stratification of the education model of Pretty Junior Middle School, but it can't be said that the lower-level exam-oriented education is not good, but it depends on whether it fits." Professor Huang Hong looked at Chen Hao and smiled. He said: "On the eve of the college entrance examination last year, Bai Yansong answered his attitude towards the prestigious college entrance examination in a media interview. I think Bai's answer is very pertinent."

Professor Huang Hong imitated Bai Yansong's tone and said:

"Maotanchang Middle School has a large proportion of children from working families. Tens of thousands of people guard the bus and send their children to take the college entrance examination. In such a wave of people, what is entrusted is the dream of one ordinary or even humble family after another. So, I have a full understanding of Maotanchang Middle School, especially when you know what kind of families are behind the children of Maotanchang Middle School. We don’t necessarily agree with the education system, exam-oriented education, etc. involved here. Waiting for things, but I am willing to face Maotanchang Middle School with warmth. I bless these ordinary families.

But sometimes things are not black and white. [Examination-oriented education] has its short-sightedness and disadvantages, but it also has the soil and space for its temporary existence, so that every child can improve their social status through struggle and give them a chance to stand out. opportunities, I think, this is the greatest significance of the existence of exam-oriented education. "

Chen Hao couldn't help but nodded.

Bai Yansong was praised by some, and his reputation was somewhat polarized, but Chen Hao still strongly agreed with Bai Yansong's answer here.

Domestic exam-oriented education may not be as bad as imagined, at least modern domestic education can change the fate of the people at the bottom.

"The overall domestic education system actually has drawbacks, but everyone knows it, but why hasn't it been changed? Because in the past few decades, this is the most suitable education system for China, but now the country's strength has become stronger. It is not suitable to develop to the present. The current education reform in China is a transitional stage from exam-oriented education to quality education, so there is talk of class solidification.”

Speaking of this, Professor Huang Hong sighed, quite helpless, "Everyone knows that quality education is good, but how can ordinary people afford it at home? The fees for language classes and interest classes are not low, which will lead to many poor families. Children who are too good will not be as competitive as children above the middle class in the college entrance examination. In the final analysis, the root of class solidification is educational solidification, and the poor get poorer and the rich get richer."

In the past, I could still hear some stories: a child from a poor family finally completed the counterattack in life through his own practicality, hard work and accumulation of hard work.

After the class slowly solidifies, this kind of story will no longer appear, and the counterattack of the poor will end here.

"Professor Huang, isn't middle school in China reducing the burden and advocating happy education? Isn't that...?" Chen Hao said, looking up at Professor Huang Hong.

Seeing the other party nodded, his heart seemed to be blocked by something, and he was so bored!

In fact, there is another point that Professor Huang Hong did not say, otherwise it would be even more desperate.

Behind knowledge changing destiny is actually a contest about family and vision.

After reaching the middle class, the role of "school education" will become less and less, and "family education" is more important. The family and school work together to make this child a better person, waiting for the selection of the society.

Seeing Chen Hao's depression, Professor Huang Hong comforted him: "At present, in our country, the social stratification has not yet been formed, and the educational stratification is still far away, so this is a great opportunity and an era of heroes. A person can transcend his own class by improving his own cognition."

"Professor Huang, you are right, at least everyone in China still has a chance." Chen Hao took a deep breath and said.

"Education reform, I've finished talking about before the university, now I'll tell you about the post-university." Speaking of this, Professor Huang Hong smiled a little, and said to Chen Hao jokingly: "I know that Guanghua College of Guanghua University is trying to figure it out. Literacy education, I have been paying attention to this aspect, then you say to some people in China: the vast majority of general education is some correct and useless knowledge. What do you think of this point of view?”

"What do you think? I think this kind of people's understanding is very one-sided and superficial. I think general education is the focus of current college reform!" Chen Hao replied with a frown.

At present, professional education is carried out in China. Computer majors only study computers, and do not study literature, art, management and other professional content.But if it is general education, then your main study is computer, but you also need to learn besides computer.

In this way, many students can't stand it. Why should I study literature when I am a computer student?

I am a management major, why should I study physics?
This is something that many domestic students do not understand, but this kind of education system still has an advantage over professional education in general.It's just that it has not been implemented in China because it affects the whole body!
It's too big to turn around!

It's okay if the direction is right, but if it's wrong, it will be troublesome!

It's just that the next sentence of Professor Huang Hong's words made Chen Hao stunned.

"But have you noticed that the general education you are implementing now is also problematic?"

ps: Students who are bored can watch the documentary "50UP (Seven Years of Life)" filmed by the British BBC, which records the life trajectory of 14 children and 50 years.

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