"Choosing education means choosing poverty and loneliness" "Good children are all praised" "There are no students who cannot teach well, only teachers who cannot teach"...

Recently, in many teachers’ circles of friends, a “ranking list of the most deceiving teachers in education” has been circulated. Among them, “There are no students who can’t teach well, only teachers who can’t teach” is ranked first, which has aroused the concern of many teachers. The *** rings.

The reporter conducted an investigation and found that behind these "educational quotes" not only reflect some of society's expectations for teachers and education, but also reflect society's misunderstandings about teachers and education.

Why do teachers resent the most: “There are no students who cannot teach well, only teachers who cannot teach”

1. The helplessness of two teachers

Late self-study after class The bell rang, and students walked out of the classroom one after another. Zheng Qile (pseudonym) sat alone in front of the podium, thinking of the notification call from the Political and Education Office just now, "Another student violated discipline." He felt at a loss.

Zheng Qile is a teacher in a vocational school. At the beginning of his career, he often heard Mr. Chen Heqin’s famous saying at various conferences and lectures: “There are no students who cannot teach well, only those who cannot teach.” Teacher." This became the initial motivation for Zheng Qile's career.

But ideals are no match for reality. As a class teacher, Zheng Qile faces mostly students with bad behavioral habits, including left-behind teenagers, single-parent children, and children with intellectual disabilities. When students perform poorly, Zheng Qile will always think of this "educational quote" and review himself over and over again, trying to find the root cause of his "inability to teach", and then work a hundred times harder to implement education.

But what makes him helpless is that although there are gains and a sense of accomplishment at work, everything never seems to be completely satisfactory. "I cannot teach all students well. There are still many students with poor grades, and there are also many students who engage in inappropriate behavior."

What confuses Zheng Qile even more is that parents often believe that teachers should take care of them as a matter of course. Teach their children well.

In 2016, a student in the class had a decline in his grades in a monthly exam. After his parents learned about it, the school learned about the situation. Zheng Qile and his parents patiently analyzed the reason. It turned out that the student was addicted to mobile phone games. After Zheng Qile found out, he confiscated his mobile phone, but the parents did not adhere to the principle and bought a new mobile phone for their child. When Zheng Qile mentioned this, the parent reasoned with him: "Can't your teachers do ideological work to guide students to use mobile phones correctly? Didn't you major in education in college? There is no disobedience in front of a good teacher. A student, right?”

The parents’ doubts made Zheng Qile depressed for a long time. "I reflect that my professional level does need to be improved, but can good enough teachers really solve all problems and teach students from all kinds of families well?" Zheng Qile said.

Yu Minqiang is a teacher at Sanshi Middle School in Pingjiang County, Hunan Province. In the second semester of 2014, a boy named Zhou was transferred to his class. Zhou is a typical "underachiever". His father is idle and makes a living by gambling. His mother runs away from home and is usually taken care of by his grandmother. Since he had just transferred here, Zhou was not familiar with his classmates, so he tempted them with cigarettes. After class, he took his classmates to hide in the toilet to smoke. He was a bit violent, had poor study habits and often failed to complete his homework.

After Yu Minqiang made three home visits, Zhou’s father finally agreed to meet him. After the meeting, Yu Minqiang introduced Zhou's situation at school and earnestly requested cooperation in education. During the communication process, Zhou's father received a call asking him to go to a card game, and said to him impatiently: "Teacher, I don't have time to listen to you anymore. I leave my child to you, and I can't teach him." It's your business to teach well, it has nothing to do with me." After saying that, he gave the order to be kicked out without any hesitation.

Yu Minqiang said that when meeting such parents and hearing the words "There are no students who can't teach well, there are only teachers who can't teach", "I feel like 'blue skinny mushrooms' (I feel uncomfortable and want to cry)" ".

2. A misinterpreted "famous saying"

"There are no students who cannot teach well, only teachers who cannot teach." This famous saying comes from the famous educator Mr. Chen Heqin.

In the context of exam-oriented education, "teaching well" is understood to mean that every student can be admitted to college, or even get admitted to key famous brands. However, this is only a one-sided understanding formed in the environment of "exam-oriented education", which is wrong in thinking. Absolute error.

Zhou Yiyi, the principal of Qingshuitang No. 3 Primary School in Kaifu District, Changsha City, believes that poor education of students does not rule out the reason of teachers’ teaching level, but education is only one of the external factors that affect children, such as endowment, intelligence and non-intelligence. Differences in education, family education, peers, and society are all factors that affect whether a child becomes a "person".

“We should see that our parents cannot teach one or two children well, but in turn ask a teacher to teach dozens of children well. Who is irresponsible? "Zhou Fangyuan, a teacher at Liuyanghe Middle School in Liuyang City, Hunan Province, believes that unreasonably exaggerating the role of teachers and using unrealistic language to demand teachers cannot completely change the educational effects of children. On the contrary, everyone starts from themselves, thinks more about what I have done for education, creates a good external environment for the growth of children, and gathers the "force for life", so that children can have a brighter tomorrow.

Li Zhenxi believes that school education is not a panacea. In the process of a person's growth, school education accounts for up to one-third, and the other two-thirds are the non-school education (including family education and social education) the student receives and the student's self-education. "We cannot do things beyond our capabilities and responsibilities. We can only do our job as well as possible within our capabilities - in this way, even if individual students are not 'taught well' in the end, we are also Have a clear conscience! "

"'There are no students who cannot teach well, only teachers who cannot teach'. If this is the self-motivation of teachers, I would like to express my utmost respect for such teachers; if someone I express my utmost contempt for such demanding teachers!" Li Zhenxi said.

"Education quotes" that teachers like

The essence of education is that one tree shakes another tree, one cloud pushes another cloud, and one soul awakens another soul.

——Karl Jaspers

It is not the beating of iron, but the singing and dancing of water that turns rough stones into beautiful pebbles.

——Tagore

Education is rooted in love.

——Lu Xun

The root of education is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

——Aristotle

Education is not about filling a bucket of water and lighting a fire.

——Yeats

Without love, there is no education.

——Suhomlinsky

Educators are not for the past or the present, but for the future.

——Cai Yuanpei

"Education quotes" that teachers don't buy

"Good children are all praised"

Hunan Province Zou Shuo, principal of Fengshushan Bridge Primary School in Yuhua District, Changsha City:

This sentence seems reasonable at first glance. After all, children need a lot of positive reinforcement in their growth. But many people only know how to praise their children, but they don’t know how to praise them to truly benefit their children’s growth. So without mastering how to use it, I praised the child indiscriminately. The general situation is that it will have a certain effect at first, but later it will upset the adults and confuse the children. What's more, the child becomes unable to listen to criticism or even accept any mistakes on his own. Such children are most likely to be frustrated in a group and have difficulty making friends, which is extremely detrimental to the child's personality development.

Yu Yuan, a teacher at Fengshushan Bridge Primary School in Yuhua District, Changsha City, Hunan Province:

First of all, this concept is wrong. Most children today do not lack praise, but on the contrary, they lack criticism, "suffering education" and "frustration education."

Secondly, how to praise your children? When to praise? What kind of child needs praise? This all requires detailed analysis of the specific situation. Praising everything will definitely not solve the problem.

Finally, praise your children in a specific way. Children are all different, and the best way to educate them should be individualized and adapted to local conditions.

Praise should and can only be one of the educational methods. It must be used in conjunction with other methods to cultivate better children!

“Can’t lose at the starting line”

Liu Xin, principal and special teacher of Meixihu Middle School in Changsha County, Hunan Province:

“Can’t lose at the starting line The reason why "famous quotes" such as "On" have a market is because they cater to the needs of some educational utilitarians. Simply put, such slogans thrown out by businesses that regard education and training as a cash cow can often effectively stimulate the sensitive nerves of parents.

The harm of this kind of "fake famous quotes" is very great. What is the starting line? If family background is one of the indicators, many people have already lost at the starting line, and this concept will make many people feel like giving up on themselves. In real life, this concept has also led to vicious competition in education and a waste of educational resources. For example, many children with good qualifications are forced to attend many training classes that are not needed. What's more, some parents feel that the earlier the starting line is set, the better. Sending their children to early education institutions as early as possible goes against the rules of children's growth and education, and is not conducive to their lifelong development in the long run.

Xiang Minmin, a teacher at Bocai Xianjia Primary School in Yuelu District, Changsha City, Hunan Province:

This sentence is mentioned most often by education and training institutions. Parents are often confused by this loud slogan. In fact, people who really understand education will not say such things that violate the laws of education. How can pulling out seedlings encourage growth? This is also an outright false proposition. In recent years, there have been frequent reports of children going to extremes due to excessive academic pressure or being forced to study too much in extracurricular interest classes. A child's childhood is a journey, not a race. Life is not a 100-meter run, but a long marathon. We should take a long-term view and focus on the entire life of our children. Only by cultivating a child into a physically and mentally sound person, rather than a learning machine, can we give him a happy life.

“Choosing education means choosing poverty and loneliness”

Ding Haiyan, a teacher at No. 3 Middle School in Pingjiang County, Yueyang City, Hunan Province:

This sentence is superficially A kind of praise for teachers' ethics. However, teaching is also a profession. Teachers also need food, clothing, housing and transportation. Most teachers are professionals with professional and technical functions who have graduated from formal universities and colleges and have their own skills. Teaching is your livelihood. If you don’t have enough food, clothing, or warmth, or are even sick, how can you be in a good state to teach students? Why must teachers be framed as “poor”? Isn't this a moral kidnapping of teachers?