When I finished his speech, what attracted me was actually the teenagers who ran for their ideals and changed their lives on the playground at 5: 30 in the morning. The world is our classroom shows us how to cultivate children's learning ability and inner excellent character. That is the essence of holistic education. Children are the hope of every family. Only by using the right method can we ignite this hope.
1. Children are not learning machines.
Zhang Xifeng shouted in his speech, "They are the hope of generations of the whole family. They are not college entrance examination machines." The traditional way of education focuses on the classroom and teaches students the knowledge in books. The significance of traditional examination lies in credits, which are used to distinguish children's quality and learning ability. Schools care about their children's grades, and parents care about their children's grades.
Maybe we ignored it, or maybe we misunderstood the true meaning of learning. "The world is our classroom" mentioned that "having characteristics is more important than studying well." In China, it seems that parents' education for their children has always been limited to the credits used to measure their learning quality. Children are divided into poor students and excellent students, and there are poor students and excellent students. Isn't this just turning children into "learning machines"?
It is not difficult to find in life that for the sake of children's academic performance, stick education; Beating and scolding education can be seen everywhere. This is not conducive to the growth of children, and even makes children tired of learning. It is the meaning of learning to explore children's characteristics and guide them to learn.
There is a sentence in Harvard's red book on general education that "the purpose of education is to cultivate a complete person." What does it mean to be a complete person? A complete person should first be a kind, honest and useful person to family and society. We should not only study English, math, physics, biology, politics and history. It is also necessary to cultivate hobbies other than book education and cultivate personality.
2. Cultivate children to become "whole people". These things you need to know.
Reading ability.
Knowledge is power, it can be changed. You know, Warren Buffett's office doesn't have a computer or a smart phone, but only books on the shelf and a desk full of newspapers. Charlie Munger, Buffett's partner, once commented: There is no smart person from all walks of life I have met who doesn't study every day. You may be surprised at Warren's reading. He is a book with two legs.
Lifelong learning is something that everyone should do. We can clearly see such a bipolar phenomenon around us. Some people give up learning when they leave school; And some people have been studying all their lives. Reading is to input knowledge into our brains, not to learn the unknown. Through our understanding, we export knowledge through writing and speaking, helping more people and influencing more people. This is the charm of reading.
The article "The world is our classroom" mentioned that "reading is input and seeking knowledge; Writing and speaking are output, not expression. Story is the oldest influence tool in human history. The core of expression is also telling stories. " We have to admit that listening to stories is something that everyone likes to do since childhood. It has always been like this. This story not only appeared in books, but also appeared on the stage, on TV, and even now in audio books. People's love for stories never stops.
With the improvement of reading ability, we can see the Milky Way overhead, bears in the Arctic and penguins in the Antarctic. More things I've never seen before. If possible, study hard from now on.
Creativity.
Besides reading, the secrets you need to know about the "genius moment". "Genius hour" means that in order to stimulate employees to put forward their own genius ideas and promote company innovation, Google allows employees to spend 20% of their time planning and implementing projects that interest them every week outside their normal work.
Maybe you'll think it has anything to do with you. Of course, this is very important. "Genius hour" can stimulate children's all kinds of unconstrained style and let children freely play their own creativity. This book inspires children by playing games, such as letting kindergarten children learn to cook, building models, or shooting a small video on a tablet.
From the game, children can realize their own interests and have subjective goals; Let the children complete the production independently and learn to create independently; If you encounter difficulties in the game, learn to solve them; In the final stage, you can get the fruits of your own labor and the creative fruits of your thoughts. All this comes from the role of "genius moment". This method is suitable for both adults and children. Our brains can create all kinds of more interesting things, and completely opening our minds can not only improve ourselves, but also improve our skills.
Do you lick your nipples when you drink yogurt? Children's creativity is always so wild. In a primary school in April, a female student invented a rotating straw. I invented it because I didn't want to lick my nipples. Thick yogurt is always covered with a milk cover. In order not to waste, many people will open the paper cover after drinking yogurt and lick the yogurt' residue' covered on it. One day, the pupil had a whim and created this strange rotating straw by using the principle of umbrella retraction.
In traditional thinking, many people may not notice the problem of this small straw at all, and may feel inconvenient, but they will not think of how to transform it. The reason is that most of our education is fixed thinking, which hinders our "whimsical" and "unconstrained" ideas.
When we meet some common ideas in life, we are more likely to let nature take its course. In fact, each of us has design thinking. As long as we jump out of the fixed thinking mode, we can innovate with people's needs as the center, just like this pupil. Cultivating children's creativity is something that every parent should do, rather than limiting their thinking too much.
Resistance to setbacks.
In this fast-paced and digital era, we are forced to receive all kinds of fragmented information. All kinds of news are flooding our lives. It is said that Zhang Xifeng, the schoolmaster of Hengshui in Super Speaker, was questioned by many netizens because of a joke that "I am a native pig from the countryside, and I have to bow my head to grow cabbage in big cities". There are even many keyboard men and various lemon essences blackened. This is an inspiring speech. In the face of this sudden public opinion, I think this is the best way besides improving the ability to cope with emergencies.
In our life, it is inevitable to encounter setbacks. Some people are devastated, while others work harder. This is because resistance to setbacks is like a spring, and everyone has different degrees of rebound and recovery from setbacks and failures. If "the purpose of education is to cultivate a complete person, and anti-frustration is an indispensable part of a sound personality map." In the process of teaching children, in addition to learning, we should also teach children's personality development, such as the cultivation of resilience.
I have seen such a real example. My cousin is the top student in his class, and most of his grades in his class have been among the best since primary school. Not long after the exam, the teacher sent the report card to the parents, and the cousin was told that it was only 0.5 points away from the first place, which was a pity. It was this small 0.5 point that made him burst into tears on the spot, crying all the time and clamoring to retake the exam.
Although this is only a small gap of 0.5 points, it has deeply hit his self-confidence. It was the first time in his life that he felt frustrated, and then he went downhill one exam after another. Later, under the guidance of my teacher, I slowly rebuilt my self-confidence. In fact, setbacks are not terrible, what is terrible is collapse. Only when you learn to deal with setbacks from an early age, just like a small sapling, can you stand up and grow into a big tree. Every child is an independent sapling.
The world is not only a classroom for children, but also a classroom for parents.
Tao Xingzhi, a modern educator and thinker in China, once said: "The core of education is to cultivate a sound personality. The so-called sound personality must include: private morality is the foundation of the body; Public morality is the basis of serving the society and the country; Knowledge and skills necessary for life; A strong and lively body; Beautiful and happy feelings. " Education is not only the number on the report card, but also affects the future development of children.
The world is our classroom and a brand-new magic weapon for educating people and self-education. It shows us a brand-new educational concept and method, which is no longer limited to classroom education, book knowledge and written test in traditional education. The author shows us the advantages of online education beyond the space dimension outside the physics classroom; The cultivation of hobbies outside books is more important; Children with characteristics are more creative than schoolmasters. Learning to "play" is also a lesson in learning; What is more important is to break through the personality cultivation outside the traditional book education.
The world is our classroom, not only for children, but also for parents. Children are the hope of the family, and parents are the mentors of their children's lives. So stimulate children's potential, guide them to find their true hobbies, and let them become happy masters and live their own lives. Children's happiness is the hope of the family.