"I think there's nothing worse in schooling than that schools work mainly with intimidation, violence and artificial authority. This practice destroys the healthy feelings, sincerity and self-confidence of primary school students. It produces submissive people. No wonder such schools dominated Soviet Russia. I know that in the schools of our country there will be no such worst evil; In Switzerland, and perhaps in all the countries where the boil is ruled. Getting a school out of the worst of all evils is relatively straightforward. Teachers are given the right to use coercive measures as little as possible, so that the only source of respect for teachers by pupils is the latter's surname and intellectual qualities. ”

"Here I will tell you some interesting stories about when I was a child, don't laugh at me."

"When I was a child in school in the United States, I was very naughty, and as a result, my father was often invited by the school's husband."

"Once, I read an American storybook with a plot about a female robot, and it really appealed to me. According to the book, the robot beauties made of steel machines and human skins are just like real people, not only are they very capable of work, but they are not at all recognizable as robots from the outside. But they have a weakness, which is that they rust when they come into contact with water, because they are made of iron. At that time, there was a Chinese maid in the school, Miss Wang, who was very beautiful, she looked weak, but she was very capable, she always got up before dawn in school, and kept everything clean and organized, but I was influenced by storybooks, and I suspected that she was a robot, otherwise why could she do so much work? I became suspicious, so one day I secretly took a glass of water to her and spilled it on her head while she was not looking. ”

Hearing this, the female students couldn't help but laugh.

Miss Wang was drenched in water, and naturally she was startled and screamed, which alarmed Mr. When my husband learned the details, he thought I was mentally disturbed and called my father. Of course my father didn't believe that I would go crazy, because I was fine when I went out in the morning, and I went to school, how could it be abnormal in the blink of an eye? My father rushed to the school and called me out and asked what was going on? I replied that I wanted to see if she was a robot, and my father laughed and didn't blame me. Later, my father communicated with my husband in person. Mr. also hinted at some things: Why is your child like this? My father also said that I was used to being free at home. But my father said one thing was for sure, as long as I was told what was right, I would pay attention, and I was still measured. ”

"When I got into trouble, my father didn't blame me, but told my husband that as a child, the way I felt was in conflict with the education at school. He hasn't adjusted well yet and needs time to take his time. There is no hurry. His son is normal and can continue his schooling. This incident left a deep impression on my young heart. ”

Later, my father told me a story to the effect that a civilized man went to a barbaric place. He thinks he's smarter than everyone else. He thought he could bring civilization to the barbarians. But unexpectedly, the barbarians felt that civilized people were useless. In the end, the barbarians ate the civilized people. ”

"My father used this story to tell me: the so-called normal and abnormal are all relative."

"So I think education is two words: teaching and education. Teaching is not simply the transmission of knowledge, but the teaching of words and deeds. You can't throw a homework book in your child's face and hope that he will be a person with a surname and creativity. Parenting is not cramming, it is not about being full and you can grow, you need time to play with your children, see what they think, and listen to what they have to say. Learn how their world is different from ours. ”

"The desire to gain the approval of partners is certainly one of the most important motivators of society, and it is to aim to be recognized and respected, firmly embedded in the person's original surname. Without this mental stimulation, human cooperation would be completely impossible. In this emotional complex, the power to construct a surname and the power to destroy a surname are closely linked. The desire to gain approval and recognition is a healthy motivator; But being recognized as better, stronger, and more intelligent than your peers or classmates can easily lead to excessive self-centeredness, which can be harmful to both individuals and society. Therefore, schools and teachers must prevent the use of simple methods that generate personal ambition to urge primary school children to study diligently. ”

Darwin's competition for survival and the selection theory associated with it have been cited by many as an authoritative argument for encouraging a competitive spirit. There are also those who use this method to try to pseudo-scientifically justify the necessity of economic competition between individuals to destroy surnames. But this is wrong, because the power of man to compete for survival lies entirely in the fact that he is a living animal with a social surname. Just as wars between individual ants in antmounds are not fundamental to survival, so are struggles between individual members of human society. ”

"Therefore, one should prevent young people from preaching success in this traditional sense as the goal of life. Successful people in this sense usually get a lot out of their partners, and they often get far more than they contribute to them. But the value of a person should be reflected in what he can give, not in what he can receive. ”

"In school and in life, the most important motivation for work is the joy of work, the joy of the results of work, and the awareness of the social value of the results. In the awakening and strengthening of these psychological forces in young people, I saw the most important task that the school was entrusted with. Only such a psychological foundation can lead to a happy desire to pursue the highest wealth of mankind, namely knowledge and artist-like skill. ”

"The awakening of these psychological powers of creation is certainly more difficult than the exercise of force or the awakening of personal ambitions, but it is more valuable. The focus is on developing a child's playful tendencies and a child's desire to be recognized, and guiding the child into areas that are important to society. This education is mainly based on the desire for successful activities and to be recognized. If the school succeeds in working from this point of view, it will be highly respected by the growing generation, and the tasks given by the school will be accepted as a gift. I know kids who love school time more than holidays. Such a school requires the teacher to be an artist within the scope of his work. How can you get this spirit in school? There can be no panacea. Just as an individual cannot be healthy forever, there are some necessary conditions that can be met. First of all, teachers should grow in such schools. Second, teachers should have broad autonomy in the choice of teaching materials and teaching methods used. Because his pleasure in development work is also stifled by force and external pressure. ”

"If everyone had been so focused on keeping up with my thoughts, you might be surprised by one thing. From my point of view, I have talked so much about the spirit in which young people should be guided, but I have said nothing about the content of the curriculum and the choice of teaching methods. Should it be language or technical education in science? ”

My answer to this is that in my opinion these are the second most important things. If a young man has trained his muscles and physical endurance through physical fitness and running, he will adapt to any physical work in the future. The same is true for mental training and training in mental and manual skills. Thus, the witty man is roughly right to say that he defines education as: 'If people have forgotten everything they have learned in school, then what is left is education.' It is for this reason that I am not at all in a hurry to take a stand in the struggle of the followers of the two methods of classical language, historical education and the education of the natural sciences, which pay more attention to it. ”

"On the other hand, I would like to oppose the notion that schools should teach specific knowledge and skills that will be used directly in later life. The demands of life are too diverse to make it impossible to carry out this kind of specialized training in school. In addition to this, I believe that we should oppose the treatment of individuals as inanimate tools. The goal of the school should always be that the student leaves the school as a peaceful and beautiful person, not an expert. I think in a sense, this is also true for technical schools that train them for more certain careers in the future. It is always the cultivation of the general ability to read, think, and judge that should always be given priority, rather than the acquisition of specific knowledge. If a person masters the fundamentals of his discipline and learns how to think and work with read, he will surely find his path. In addition to this, he is more able to adapt himself to progress and change than those who are trained mainly to acquire detailed knowledge. ”

"It's not enough to educate people with professional knowledge. One must have the ability to read and think, and be able to achieve the pleasure that comes from thinking. With the ability to read and think, you will not be easily misled by others, just as many people have been misled into misunderstanding the original intention of Hans Christian Andersen, who wrote such an immortal story as "The Little Match Girl". ”

"Through professional education, a person can become a useful machine, but not a well-developed person. It is essential for students to have an understanding of values and to develop warm feelings. He must acquire a distinct discernment of beauty and moral goodness. Otherwise, he - along with his expertise - would be more like a well-trained dog than a well-developed man. In order to attain proper relations with others and to the collective, he must learn to understand people's motives, their fantasies, and their sufferings. And these valuable things are taught to the younger generation through personal contact with educators, and not - at least not mainly - through textbooks. This is what constitutes culture and preserves culture, and when I recommend my views to everyone as something important, I want this in my mind, not the very boring expertise in the fields of history and philosophy. ”

"An overemphasis on a competitive regime and premature specialization on the basis of direct use will stifle the spirit on which all cultural life, including expertise, rests."

"The development of critical reading thinking in young people is also vital to valuable education, and the excessive burden on young people caused by too many and too many disciplines (credit system) greatly jeopardizes the development of such reading thinking. Overburdening inevitably leads to superficiality. Education should make what is offered to the student receive as a precious gift, not as a difficult task to be burdened. ”

"Behind every achievement there is a driving force, which is the basis of the achievement, and in turn, this motivation is strengthened and nourished by the completion of the task. There is a very large difference here, and this difference has a great deal to do with the educational norms of the school. The same work can be done out of terror and coercion, in the competitive pursuit of prestige and honor, in a sincere interest in the object and in the desire for truth and understanding, and thus in the innate curiosity of every healthy child, although this curiosity fades very early. The educational impact of the same task on students can vary greatly, depending on whether the main reason for the work is the fear of damage, selfishness, or the pursuit of pleasure and satisfaction. ”

"In school and in life, the most important motivation for work is the pleasure of work, the joy of getting results from work, and the awareness of the social value of this result. I believe that the most important task of the school is to inspire and strengthen these psychological strengths of young people. Only such a psychological basis can lead to a pleasant desire to pursue the highest property of man - knowledge and artistic skill. ”

"Remember, all the wonderful things you have learned in school are the result of the work of many generations, and are the result of the passionate efforts and endless labor of every country in the world. All this is in your hands as an inheritance, that you may receive it, respect it, enhance it, and pass it on faithfully to your children one day and later. In this way, those of us who are always going to die have eternal life in the immortal things we have created together. ”

"If you never forget this, you will find the meaning of life and work, and you will have the right attitude towards other peoples and other times."

"In a healthy society, there is no direct link between education and the knowledge it acquires and the success of the individual, and knowledge is not the most important force in social governance, let alone the only one. In China, which was in the era of the feudal empire, education was valued only because all spheres of society were organized by power, and the order-obedience mechanism of power replaced the boiling, autonomy, and market mechanisms. Such a society is highly unequal, and it can only adopt a strategy of substituting knowledge for public opinion, and rely on a seemingly fair form of rationality to maintain its existence, that is, to select officials from the top down through imperial examinations, and to reward and punish officials from the top down through quantitative evaluation indicators, such as their political performance. In this way, there is a direct link between education, especially the imperial examinations, and the unusually rich benefits, which induces people to attach a distorted importance to education. ”

"Today, we are finally seeing some signs of a change in the structure of society: education is developing most rapidly, and many pupils are already living in schools, despite many problems; Mingzhu is developing at the bottom of the people, and autonomy is also being promoted in rural and urban communities. There is no direct correlation between the allocation mechanism for these areas and whether or not you have attended a university or what your test scores are. Entry into these fields is less about academic qualifications, and higher education is no longer so important for people to succeed in these fields. That is to say, reading is no longer useful for officials, and this kind of theory that reading is useless is a theory that puts things right in order for education to return to normal in the process of social pluralism. ”

"If one day, many young people and parents voluntarily choose not to go to university, but to go into business, engage in social services, and become apprentices, then our society will basically come out of the era of imperial examinations and become like a normal society. With the fading of educational fetishism and the tendency of society towards a polycentric governance order, it is possible for education to return to its normal state. ”

"Here I would like to emphasize once again that what I am talking about in this somewhat gloomy form represents nothing more than my personal opinion, which is based only on my own personal experience. I would like to thank my classmates for giving me this opportunity to express these ideas in such a meaningful class. ”

After Yang Shuoming's speech, many female college students applauded, Yang Shuoming's face was slightly red, Tang Qianming recalled what he had just said, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

He never thought that Yang Shuoming would have such a deep understanding of education.

Tang Qianming didn't know that the reason why Yang Shuoming blushed just now was because the content of his speech was not all original to him.

At this time, Yang Shuoming was still smiling and talking freely with the teachers and students, and at this moment, the figure of a naval officer suddenly appeared at the door.

Yang Shuoming saw the officer, smiled and said a few words to the teachers and students, and then left the pulpit, walked to the door, and came to the naval officer.

Tang Qianming recognized that this naval officer was a section chief of the Naval Intelligence Department, and when he realized that something might have happened, his heart couldn't help but hang a little.

Yang Shuoming took a piece of paper from the officer's hand and looked at it, a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, Tang Qianming couldn't help but be stunned again when he saw Yang Shuoming's strange expression.

"The epidemic should have spread a long time ago, and the reason why we didn't know the news was because I said that I had done a good job of lockdown and secrecy." Yang Shuoming said.

"Their quarantine work has also been successful, and the epidemic has been effectively controlled in China." The officer of the Naval Intelligence Service replied, "They are still moving fast. ”

(To be continued)