Jack Ma is here to take the first lesson of school!
Parents are looking forward to today’s parent-teacher meeting because there is a special teacher coming? Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba Group, who is also the “gu master” of Yungu School. Today is the first time Ma Yun, the owner of the valley, has held a "parent-teacher conference" for parents.
Yungu School is a private school invested and established by Jack Ma and other partners of Alibaba.
In 2017, Yungu School’s primary school and junior high school officially enrolled students. In 2018, Yungu Kindergarten, Elf Valley, welcomed its first batch of students. This year, the high school enrolled students. Currently, Yungu School has 33 classes and 736 students.
From the official enrollment to now, Yungu School has rarely appeared in the public eye.
At 3:17 pm, after enjoying the performances and speeches of students from Yungu Kindergarten, Primary School, and Junior High School with their parents, Jack Ma took the stage amidst the cheers of the parents.
Ma Yun said that today’s parent-teacher meeting was something he applied for and initiated. He hoped to have an exchange of educational concepts with parents in Yungu. Generally, the first lesson of school is taught to children. I believe that our first lesson of school should be taught to parents. ?Ma Yun said that in order to take this class, he once again prepared the class carefully after having left his teaching position for many years.
Why should we teach parents the first lesson?
Ma Yun said, because in China, before children are 18 years old, it is their parents who decide their destiny and study. ?If the parents fail to pass the test, it will be difficult for the children to pass the test. Moreover, most of children’s problems are caused by their parents. ? He believes that China's education has made great progress in the past 30 years. Now, everyone attaches great importance to education, but education should not become an issue that makes everyone anxious. It should be considered, but not anxious.
In the nearly two-hour parent-teacher meeting, Jack Ma shared his thoughts on why he founded Yungu School, how to run Yungu School, what kind of parents he should be, and what kind of children he should cultivate. idea.
Why build Yungu?
Opening a different school for the future is not a whim, let alone making money. Jack Ma said that the purpose of establishing Yungu School was not to solve the educational problems of the children of Alibaba employees, but to explore a different education path. Today’s education faces huge challenges. Chinese society’s anxiety about education is the same as the rest of the world. We must reform education, set an example, and think about what schools should look like in 20 years. ?
Jack Ma said that today’s education was established after the first industrial revolution. It is a system and mechanism designed by people more than two hundred years ago for the future. Education in the industrial era served the assembly line and was standardized, but today's situation is no longer the same. Many standardized tasks in the future will be replaced by machines. ?If today’s education does not prepare for the future, if the current education methods do not change, children will not be able to find jobs in 30 years. ? He feels that we must think about what path we should let our children take at the moment, what kind of teaching model we should choose, and what schools in the digital economy era will look like in the next two to three hundred years. There are many good schools in the world today, but they are good schools based on past thinking; today there is not a good school in the world that is prepared for the future. What Yungu wants to do is to build a different school for the future. ?Ma Yun said that Yungu School will not copy any other school. Yungu is not a school for aristocrats, a school for rich people, nor a school for top students, nor a school for the children of Ali. Yungu School is aimed at parents and children who agree with Yungu's philosophy.
He also said that Yungu is not an international school, but an "international school". ?The system established by Yungu is in line with the world and the future, but it does not mean preparing for studying abroad, but it hopes to cultivate children's global concepts and vision. ?
Ma Yun said that what he expects is that Chinese children who study abroad in the future will not stand out because of their good grades, but will be respected because of their good conduct, many friends, sense of responsibility and leadership. . ?
What kind of children do you raise?
Let every child be the best version of himself
What kind of children does Yungu School want to cultivate?
Ma Yun said that the mission of Yungu School is not to pursue success, but to let every child become the best version of himself. Yungu does not train exam machines, we hope to train real people. I hope that in addition to rigorous study, our children can play and be good at it. Children who can play and know how to play are promising children. ? Children in Yungu do not reject exams, but they will never regard exams as a goal. They do not study for exams, and will not give up the cultivation of artistic and comprehensive abilities for the sake of scores. They should not and will not stop music the day before the high school entrance examination or college entrance examination. , art, and physical education classes. ? Teachers at Yungu do not give students the correct answer, but let the children learn to find the answer. ?
He also mentioned the "advanced learning" that is very common nowadays. There are even children who have learned all the primary school textbooks in kindergarten. ?Children have tasks for each stage at each stage.
?Kindergarten plants seeds, primary school should cultivate values, junior middle school children should be active in thinking and develop discipline, high school should cultivate interest in the future, and university should focus on cultivating knowledge structure and thinking about the pursuit of life. Most good things come out slowly!
As for the issue of higher education that parents are very concerned about, Jack Ma said that Yungu does not seek to allow every child to enter a prestigious school, but supports every child to choose a school that suits him or her. To get admitted to a prestigious school, it is better to choose a famous department. When choosing a famous department, it is better to find a "wise master", a master who understands the truth. ?
Yungu wants to cultivate children who have healthy minds, are positive and optimistic without complaining, are healthy, love sports, have a sense of teamwork, and are full of curiosity about learning. We must cultivate children’s IQ, EQ, and love quotient. , reverse business. What we should really give our children is the ability to be happy, to give happiness to others, to make ourselves happy, and to learn to enjoy happiness. ?
What kind of parent do you want to be?
Don’t force a tiger to climb a tree. Raising children is an investment, not a stock speculation. Stock trading will rise tomorrow and fall the day after tomorrow, but children grow up slowly and cannot rise overnight. ?In Jack Ma’s view, investing in children may not necessarily succeed, but the investment will definitely pay off. Moreover, the participation in investment itself is the greatest pleasure. ?Every child is a creation of nature, a unique work of art, not a plywood rushed out of the education assembly line. I hope that every father and parent will feel proud that I have a child who is different from others. I hope that the school will not become a standard chicken farm or pig farm. It should be a wild zoo with all kinds of animals. Our assessment standards for each child should be different. We cannot use the ability to climb trees to assess a tiger's ability. But now, many parents force tigers to climb trees. ?
He advised parents not to worry about their children not being able to go to college after graduating from high school. What they need to worry about is that their children are not interested in learning and feel confused about life. The responsibility of parents is to work with the school to help their children find the love of their lives. ?Joining interest classes is not for extra points or to save face for parents, but to truly find an interest for your children. ?
Jack Ma suggested that parents should become parents who help their children realize their dreams, rather than letting their children realize their own dreams. Parents need to be advocates for their children, not controllers. Parents' mentality affects their children's mentality, and parents' anxiety also affects school education and teaching. ?He hopes parents will ask themselves three questions every day: First, have you compared your children with other children today? Second, are you anxious about the score today? Third, are you not listening and disrespecting your children?
He suggested that parents should respect the young and love the old: respect children and young people and respect their ideas. In ancient times, raising a child was for old age. Today, raising a child has only one purpose: to make him healthy, to make him happy, and to make him bring happiness to others.
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