Reprint: An Unexpected Answer to an Educational Conundrum – Luo Ji Thinking
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Okay, what are we going to talk about today? This topic is too big, I don't dare to say it if I really borrow a hundred guts, today we are going to talk about China's education issues, and some netizens usually say on the Internet: Luo Pang talks about education issues! I didn't dare to respond to the killing, because I didn't have enough education and couldn't control it. But the show "Luo Ji Thinking" has an advantage, Luo Pang can not understand anything, but as long as the producers of knowledge and the writers of those books are still alive and working diligently, once they write books, I can understand them, and I can speak them, so I am the right knowledge porter at the right time.
Well, the reason why I am so bold today and dare to touch this topic is because I read this book, "The Pathology of Education in Our Country", the author of this book is a famous sociologist in my country, Mr. Zheng Yefu. Let's let Mr. Zheng rest here for a while, and then talk about the ideas in the book, and I will first briefly complain about Chinese education. In fact, there are two biggest problems in Chinese education: the first is unfairness, which we will not touch on today; The main thing we are aiming at is the second, which is that it destroys the interest, creativity and enthusiasm of a generation, and everyone with a Chinese education knows the three flavors well.
Like the college entrance examination in the 70s, when the college entrance examination competition was extremely fierce, so the college entrance examination system has made some people, and I am one of the beneficiaries, but it has also ruined some people, because growing up in this kind of educational environment, as long as he does not set foot on the single-plank bridge of the college entrance examination, he will be disgusted with learning for life, which is a particularly common phenomenon in China. So people like Luo Pang often daydream at home, if only I could live again, I brought back the stock code of the Chinese stock market for so many years to the daily price limit, won't I get rich?
But no matter how strong the desire to get rich, I didn't want to go back to middle school to live again, because those days were too hard, it was really dark, it was really a kind of torture of the soul, so I chose a day, I said that I should live again after entering the university and the night of the end of military training, military training is more troublesome than the college entrance examination. I really don't know what number will be drawn from Chinese education for more than 30 years, whether this number is positive or negative, and whether its net profit is merit or fault, it's really hard to say!
Okay, let's not complain, today is mainly the word "pathology", we have to figure out, what happened to Chinese education? The traditional way of thinking is: heck, the bad is in the test-oriented education, let the children go to the test, so the children are miserable. That's good, the girl on the other side looks at it, let's go to the opposite side, the opposite side of exam-oriented education is quality education, let's just develop quality education.
However, the four words "quality education" are completely unscrutinizing, and they have two prerequisites, the first of which is the all-round development of people. You see, you should be moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and laborious, the best piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, similar to Qin Huaiba, you have to know everything. But the question is, is this really the real picture of human society? The idea of making every human being very perfect has existed throughout the ages, but the most formed thing is that it was formed in the minds of dictatorial madmen like Hitler, and the streets are full of Aryans of excellent races, you see, they are tall, beautiful, and intellectually developed, and it is best to be excellent in all aspects, so that the dictator will think like this! People in the real world, when Zhuge Liang was fighting, there was no need to compare his strength with Zhang Fei, people took four-wheeled cars, right, Prime Minister Zhuge Cheng; Qian Zhongshu does not have to pass physical education, and even Qian Zhongshu's mathematics can be scored zero, there is no problem; Chen Jingrun can not cook, there is no problem. All the best creative talents in the real world will not be well-developed, and of course they will not be excluded, but this is not the case with the main body. Take me Luo Pang as an example, I have never failed sports, but I am very relieved, our middle school society let a student with good grades like Luo Pang not be eligible to enter the university? Is the PE teacher up to the task? Will our principal say yes? I never take it seriously, I don't need to be well-rounded, I believe he will let me go to university and give me a passing grade. The second problem with quality education is that it also has a premise, that is, what it thinks is singing, dancing, and painting, which is called quality education, but in fact it is also a confused concept. Do you think, now that we have overturned all the secondary school subject systems and rebuilt them, what subjects do you say are the most important for people's quality? Maybe the Chinese is the most important, the math is very important, the foreign language is very important, and the singing and dancing have to be in the back row. Therefore, there is no problem of reversal of the subject setting of the main subject and the minor subject, can you say that language ability is not a problem of human quality? That's good, then what do you mean by quality education, do you say that you don't take the test? To put it bluntly, if you don't take the test, we will work together, from the principal to the teacher, to the parents, to the students, we will treat you as nothing, no matter how big the red-headed document of the Education Bureau is, we will not care about you, because it has nothing to do with my college entrance examination; You take the test, you say which subject you will take, you take the track and field test, I will never learn to swim; If you take the sprint test, I will never play long-distance running; If you take the piano exam, I will never touch the violin, it is nothing more than in the already tragic college entrance examination competition subjects, you have increased our burden! Therefore, quality education has been implemented in practice for so many years, in fact, it cannot be pushed, to put it bluntly, for China's educational disease, the pathological diagnosis from the beginning is wrong, this is the most important value of this book, it is from beginning to end, that is, it has been denied from the beginning, we have been particularly lively in the education circle in recent decades, the so-called implementation of quality education. Well, where is the pathology inferred from this book? We have to start from the fundamental function of education, education itself is two functions, the first function, everyone recognizes, to enhance ability; But what about the second feature? The second function is to win the social competition, which is common and can be deduced, and people with high ability should win in the social competition, and should occupy a higher position in the society, so they can win in the competition, right, this logic is universal. But when this two-pronged logic exists in the education system, you will find that the latter logic will eat up the former logic. How to say it, the problem is that the problem of ability cannot be investigated, what do you say about Luo Fat's ability, you have to investigate it for a long time, right, you can't take the test for life, you have to carefully send a team to observe and experiment with me for ten years, and then I can determine my ability! Why do you say that it can be decided in ten years, how do you know that I will not explode in the next twenty years? So you can't execute it in terms of time, and then there are so many indicators of ability, how do you give it a clear score?
Therefore, there is a mechanism in human society, which is to simplify, and in the end, don't talk nonsense, what is ability, one test will determine life. It's this volume, do it, how many points are how many points, as long as it's the same for everyone, we'll be fair, so there is a word recently, called "let mathematics get out of the college entrance examination", naïve, mathematics is true, let's not start from the first purpose of education, mathematics to improve ability, mathematics addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, after the application problem, basically has nothing to do with application, and has nothing to do with ability, but mathematics it satisfies another function of education, that is, in the competition to distinguish people, separate out, and divert out of the function. Because mathematics is the largest span of difficulty among all human knowledge systems, there are very simple questions, there are extremely difficult questions, and it is such a discipline with the only standard answer, so it is almost in the college entrance examination, you see that the liberal arts are also examined, and the science is also examined, why, it is the easiest to distinguish people, so it is not education at all, it is just a tool to distinguish people, so why should mathematics get out of the college entrance examination? Let's not cultivate people's ability from that, it is not the first role at all, it is the role of dividing people. So, in fact, when the two functions of education exist in an education system, because of the excessive competition, the latter function will eat up the first function, and it becomes unimportant to improve people, but it becomes very important to distinguish people, so the problem is not in quality education, where is it? According to the judgment of this book, China's education is too competitive, and education is not a tool to improve people, but an arms race of competition between people. I also especially hope that the name of this book will be called "Our National Education Therapy", not pathology, but after reading this book, to be honest, of course, Mr. Zheng didn't say that, and the conclusion I came to in this book is that this question is unsolvable. Don't panic and despair, I'll push you to see, solve it, see if there is a solution to this problem. Okay, the competition is too fierce, leading to an arms race, then there can only be two solutions, the first one, relieve tension, what to do, expand recruitment, don't you cross the single-plank bridge here with so many troops, everyone can go to college, isn't it? Isn't this knot untied?
But you must know that this is a false proposition, and this solution is definitely not correct, because since it is an arms race, it does not mean that which problem is solved will be solved, the arms race is that this problem will never end, and if your country has more than a hundred rifles, I will have more; You launch a new aircraft carrier, I'll have to build another one. You have alleviated the competition in this place and made the college entrance examination not difficult, well, the next step, the next link of the competition, do you say it is one or two, is it a prestigious school degree or an ordinary school degree. Isn't there a unit enrollment recently, we only accept 211 schools, and the new competition begins, if the undergraduate is not good, we will compete for the master's degree, and if the master's degree is not good, we will compete for the doctorate.
All in all, the expansion of enrollment is actually an anesthetic, a conspiracy, a conspiracy of whom, and a conspiracy of the whole society. According to Mr. Zheng's observations, in fact, in modern society, there is one biggest ideology. What is ideology? It's just that everyone thinks so, but it's not necessarily right. The biggest ideology is the role of education, whether it is the United Nations or various countries, or China, we all think that the development of education must be right, you see a lot of companies donate, donate a primary school, because it is politically correct, but if you think about it carefully, education is actually an excessive supply, because everyone agrees in it, to spread the pie of education, politicians say so have votes, the upper elite class says so, he can continue to consolidate his ability to control society as a knowledge holder, The people at the bottom feel that the pie of education is bigger, and my children have the opportunity to get ahead, but those educators, scholars, and professors have a big spread of education, so of course they don't want to do it. Therefore, its principle is a bit like the indiscriminate issuance of currency, but the indiscriminate issuance of currency will be opposed by the whole society, except for the indiscriminate issuance of currency for educational resources, which is approved by the whole society. This is not the case in China, it is the whole world, so education is the biggest ideology, and it has long surpassed the level of education that society needs now. Well, when education can't be solved by expanding enrollment so much, then we turn around and think on the other side, can we divert a large number of people before the college entrance examination, saying that it is better to divert so many people across the single-plank bridge in advance. You know, such an education system also exists in the world, it is very mature, such as Germany, this is it, its famous education system is to divide in advance. Primary school in Germany is four years, and after four years, primary school students are about ten years old, so you choose, basically two paths, of course, their school system is very complex, the main body is a dual-track system, one track of vocational education, one track of normal liberal arts secondary school, in the future to prepare for university, you choose. If you think, forget it, I don't want to go to college, I'm willing to earn money early, okay, go to a vocational school, a very good vocational school training path.
If you say that I want to be an intellectual in the future, and I want to go to university, then okay, go to this kind of middle school and be diverted, you may think, why doesn't China learn such a good system? I'll just say simply, China can't learn, for example, just a few years ago, Germany passed the Federal Vocational Education Act. Because Germany is a federal country, the legislative power of education is in the states, but the legislative power of vocational education is in the federation, so it was passed a few years ago. For example, in 2008, it stipulated that all enterprises in Germany should apply for a qualification, called an educational enterprise, that is, you and the school jointly run vocational education, if you co-organize, I will grant you this qualification, after the inspection, grant you the qualification, and then for each vocational education student, the federal government will give you a subsidy of 4,000 to 6,000 euros, and the federal government prepares a budget of 450 million euros every year to do this.
So can this thing be done in China, I really tell you, the governments around the country have introduced such policies, which enterprises are willing to co-organize, the government subsidizes, do you know what the result is? As a result, a large number of companies will run such virtual schools, go everywhere to collect ID cards, and go to the government to cheat subsidies. So in China, a country in transition, that's it, a lot of systems look very good, but as soon as you take it, it goes bad.
However, the most important reason for the diversion of education in China is not what I just said, but that we have the courage to say one reason at first glance, family planning. You know, the Chinese are not without diversion, China's education diversion since, since ancient times, it is a natural process of diversion. For example, in the era of the imperial examination, many families were like this, because there were many sons, and they chose one to take the imperial examination. You must know that it is not like this for poor families, but also for rich families, in this book, several families are analyzed, such as the Zeng Guofan family, which is a big family of military merits, and there is no problem of lack of money, at least it turns out that there are rich peasants in the countryside. The eldest Zeng Guofan came out of the imperial examination and entered the imperial examination, he had a fourth brother, named Zeng Guohuang, who donated a prisoner once in his life, that is, he donated a show to be a pawn, and then he did not set up the imperial examination for the rest of his life, and he was not interested. No one in the family forced him, it's good, I'm not interested, let's go home, so Zeng Guohuang is in the Zeng family, and in Zeng Guofan's generation, he is in charge of housework.
So if you look at the "Zeng Guofan's Family Book", a large number of letters are written to his fourth brother Zeng Guohuang, among which you can also see that there is a very interesting mentality, Zeng Guofan is a little flattering to this younger brother, because he thinks that this is the big rear, the pillar, and the younger brother has made a little achievement, so he desperately praises, "My family depends on the fourth brother" and other such words and phrases abound in the "Zeng Guofan's Family Book". You see, this is the family, it naturally has a diversion, so in this book we see a lot of families, for example, Zhang Jian, the champion of Enke in the 20th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, their family is, he has an elder brother named Zhang Jing, and the two of them are one who manages production at home, supports his younger brother, and his younger brother goes to study. Our Red Army Marshal Zhu De too, the whole family borrowed 200 yuan for a child like him to study, and then he really came out, and when he became the **** brigade commander, he paid back the 200 yuan.
So this strategy is the same in the traditional family, but why doesn't this diversion strategy work in our generation? It's very simple, family planning, we just have one child, bet or not, it turns out that you have two eggs, three eggs, of course you can divide different baskets, look at this child, it's not reading material at all, why force him? He is willing to play, willing to do business, then do business, willing to take care of the house, just have a child, the whole family will be guaranteed.
But the only child, you don't have this choice, you have to put a gun to the child's head, you give it to me, if you don't go to this family, there is no hope, all my personal ideals will not be attached, this is the family planning has brought about an unexpected social consequence. No one can divert it, and every child, whether it is suitable or not, whether he likes it or not, whether he is happy or not, must go to this mountain where he must charge, brave the spirit of death, and complete a youthful charge, and the vast majority will fall in the middle of the road, which is an unexpected consequence of family planning.
All in all, you will find that the pathology of Chinese education is that the arms race is excessively fierce, and if you want to alleviate the arms race, you will either expand the number of recruits, but if you find that this road does not work, you will only trigger other arms races on other battlefields. So how do you divert it? You will find that we can't learn from the German experience, and in the end, you will find that there is a factor that every Chinese family can't hide from now, and family planning is left here, so to ease competition, we can't see hope for many years after the end of the family planning policy, and this is our deduction. The whole chessboard is like this, the pathology is like this, and all the deductions are this, so you say, can Chinese education still be saved? Luo Fat Dead Bibliography:
"The Pathology of Education in Our Country" by Zheng Yefu
-- Quality education is a stupid talk that does not make sense, and the expansion of enrollment in colleges and universities is a trick to cover all social strata.
Hearing the conclusion I just said, many friends want to tie a knot in their hearts, and they are uncomfortable, because Chinese like happy endings, how can you Luo Fatty say that Chinese education is unsolvable? When I say that there is no solution, I mean that there is no solution under a specific pattern and premise, but these patterns and premises will also evolve, so there will be a solution in the future. Of course, what I want to say here is not this, but for a country as big as China, compared to this difficult problem, if someone says, I have a way to break this problem, this person must be a liar, and he will be directly sent to the Public Security Bureau, without wrongdoing.
At that time, our family planning policy was like this, and it was also the genius and the talented people who made a judgment that was the most rational at that time in response to this kind of lice on the monk's head, and the obvious problem, but so what? The whole social system is not an alarm clock, it is something that can be directly controlled by your human reason, it is an ecosystem, and the final result of its evolution is that the hole cards in God's pocket will not be shown to you until the last minute. In the process of its evolution, it finally surprises your eyes and surprises, and all the evil consequences come out, and when they appear, you will find that it is too late to regret! This is the case with many social policies, so for the problem of education in China, we should not say that there is a person who can come up with a complete and beautiful plan that seems to be leakless and intimidating, but rather that we humbly admit at the moment that there is no solution to this problem under the current situation, and we should improve it slowly and objectively and rationally.
Why is this problem unsolvable, let me give you an example, many people know, how to promote education? Increase children's interest, interest is the best teacher, do you need to talk about this, everyone knows, but as long as the cultivation of interest meets the door of the college entrance examination, he will hit his head and bleed, why? Because there are two underlying logics behind the impregnable wall of the college entrance examination, do you want to knock on this door? You can't do without these two things, the first thing is called review, and the second thing is called reward and punishment.
How? All of us know that in the third year of high school, there are basically no new classes, just review, practice repeatedly, the difference between 95 points and 100 points is reviewed, and those 5 points are important. Rewards and punishments, of course, the school sends a big red list, every time the final results are announced, parents say how many points do you score, where do I take you to play, etc., isn't this all? Stimulate your child's motivation, but if you push it one step further, you will find that rewards and reviews are the killers that kill interest!
Let's talk about reviewing this matter first, the word Xi, the traditional Chinese character "Xi", two Xizi, the feather of the feather, what does it mean? The number of birds flies, this is the explanation on the "Shuo Wen Jie Zi". What if a bird wants to learn to fly? Repeated practice, yes, but the long history of evolution has given all animals an instinct, which is the recurring stimulus, and it must be interested. Biologists have done an experiment in which a small male mouse sees a new female mouse and is able to mate six or seven times in two hours. But then, it was no longer interesting until a new female mouse appeared, and she was able to mate six or seven times in an hour or two. Why? This is the minimum ability of the organism, the environment, all the stimuli, as long as it appears repeatedly, it will judge the safety, the safe stimulus will automatically ignore it, otherwise its nervous system will be overloaded, it has to find a new stimulus and then respond, so repetition is the best tool to stifle interest, this is the role of review.
There are also rewards, we all know that rewards are divided into external awards and internal awards, the so-called external awards, that is, externally, I did this, what benefits did I give. The internal award is the reward given to me for doing this, the satisfaction in my heart, the sense of accomplishment after creation. But all our current rewards are external awards, what do we do with 100 points in the test, and climb to the top of the big red list, female classmates look at you differently, this is all external awards. Learning itself becomes a means, not an end, but all rewards have a characteristic, that is, simple behaviors are promoted by rewards to be effective, and complex behaviors are ineffective.
For example, let's say a football club owner says to a player, "Today's opponent team has a buddy, I don't think he likes it, give you a million, go on the field and kick his leg off, this can really be done." But the boss said, give you a million, you score a goal for me, he really can't do it, at least he can't do it by rewarding. The reward is like this, so learning this thing is of course effective in the face of the iron wall of the college entrance examination, because it is a simple action, but if you want to say, you have to win the Nobel Prize in science, this matter is a complicated action, it is much more difficult than Chinese football to break into the World Cup, he really can't do it.
The repeated repetition of the external prize is an important driving force for the disappearance of the internal prize. The simple truth, if you take Viagra too much, you can't do it yourself, it's as simple as that! So we can deduce that there is an inherent contradiction between interest-guided education and the college entrance examination, and there is an inherent contradiction between the logic behind it, and you can only get one of them, so how do you say this problem is solved? It's all internal conflict!
Of course, you may say, so how do you think you want to solve it in the future? How to solve it? In Mr. Zheng Yefu's book "The Pathology of Education in Our Country", two interesting ideas are mentioned, because he is an amateur biologist, he has written a lot of books on biology, and I have read and recommended one of them, called "God Like Ancestors", which is very interesting, and many of his judgments are derived from biology. For example, the problem of emotional intelligence, our current education is to pay too much attention to intellectual education, but to put it bluntly, to a certain level, your IQ is 500, your IQ is 1000, and it has nothing to do with the application of life, and even has nothing to do with your competitiveness, unless in a specific scientific research department, like our ordinary people have an IQ of 120, which is enough for most people.
School education is often only a one-way intellectual education, but Mr. Zheng Yefu believes that emotional intelligence education is more important. Why? From the perspective of evolutionary analysis, it turns out that when people were in the primeval jungle, they had emotions, yes, this is some of the primitive codes and underlying codes carved into our genes by the long evolutionary history, and we must do this. You have to be frightened when you encounter a beast, you have to run, someone has taken your only dinner in three days, you have to be angry, you have to go up and attack, right, so these codes engraved in our genes are all matched in that state of life.
However, since the Industrial Revolution, human beings have no worries about food and clothing, and many of our body's reactions are to fight against the codes engraved in the bottom of genes formed by millions of years of evolutionary history. I have to hold back from eating, but eating is instinctive, because I didn't have to eat when I was in the ancestors, and I drooled every day when I saw what I was eating, and all kinds of endocrine prompted me to take a bite, but now, because I don't worry about eating every day, so you eat too much, so you get fat, you want to lose weight, you want to hold back this mouth, you have to fight against the evolutionary habits that have been formed over millions of years.
Learning is the same, after the modern industrial society, when people are rich, please ask your emotions to return to that kind of primitive panic and anger all the time, that is not right! Now we have a friend, someone else comes to take your stuff to eat, and you immediately turn your face with your office colleague, are you embarrassed? Your EQ is too low! Another example is pessimism and optimism, when primitive people, pessimism is very important, because it means that you have a closer plan for things, and make safer judgments on many things, and if you are too optimistic, maybe your behavior is very careless, so people tend to be pessimistic. But in modern society, optimism is often more conducive to collaboration, you see, this is a big shift in emotional intelligence, the value of emotional intelligence is much more important than IQ.
But what about the education in our society now, we are a one-way IQ education, not emotional intelligence education, emotional intelligence education requires a lot of time with partners, to play, to do activities, to do recreational activities, to do pleasant things, to cooperate with each other. And now, we have been a brutal battlefield since elementary school, and we are embarrassed to say that we will not let our children lose at the starting line, right? If individual intellectual education is a fierce competition, how to cultivate emotional intelligence? What's more, children don't have time, as long as all families have children going to school, the busiest people in this family are children, not adults. Emotional intelligence takes time, so you see, moving from IQ education to emotional intelligence education is a challenge that evolutionary history and the state of modern civilization have posed to humanity.
When will we be able to make this leap? There's one, there's another, creativity, we all know that creativity is good, but from an evolutionary point of view, what is creativity good? It's called mutation. The best strategy for human beings, or all living things, is heredity, not mutation, because nature has engraved many traits suitable for the survival of your species in your genes, you just have to imitate, just repeat. A little tiger learns how to prey on his mother, enough is enough, what is new? Innovation is dangerous, that is mutation, 99.9% of mutations are to be eliminated, as long as they can rarely play a role in the reproduction of races and species, and can be continued.
Therefore, innovation is a very scarce personality trait, and American scholars who study innovation have made some very interesting statistics, for example, many innovative figures in human history are put aside for him, and then a statistic is found, when they are ten years old, one in four people have both parents died, and by the age of 20, more than half of the people have both parents died. To put it bluntly, what does that mean? It is a person who has geniuses and abilities and is creative, and the family is unhappy. The family is unhappy, and the children of the problem family usually have two paths, one is to go to the street as a hooligan, rape, kill, lie, and take drugs; There is also the one who becomes the genius we just talked about.
Which one do you say has the highest probability? Of course, the former has a high probability, so we found in many studies of creativity, for example, there is an experiment, the most outstanding people in the seven fields of human beings, found that without exception, there is a characteristic, these people get along with family members with emotional disorders, such as Einstein, Einstein was willing to be alone when he was young, this way of solitude led to his countless subsequent marriages were unsuccessful, and he did not get along well with his children. Gandhi, Freud, these people can't get along with their families, these characteristics, why? Because he's weird! He is different from others, so a lot of things, in fact, back to a starting point, what is innovation, creativity is that this person is a weird person, even an extreme mental patient in the eyes of others, so many people say that left-handed people are creative, you can find a bunch of left-handed people, Picasso, Freud, Einstein, these people are left-handed, what is the essence of creativity? It's an outlier. It may not sound good, but if you look at the evolutionary history, it is like this, and this is the hole card!
How do you cultivate innovation? Many schools hold high the banner of creativity cultivation colleges, how to cultivate creativity? You have to know the word "creativity", after it is created, you will find that it is neither measurable, nor recognizable, nor cultivated, if you can measure, identify, and cultivate, is it still called creativity? Creativity at the moment it happens, you don't know it's called creativity at all, the moment Bill Gates dropped out of school, all his classmates laughed at him for being a fool, that's right, he is called creativity; Steve Jobs must have been a person with a peculiar personality, and that's what creativity is called.
So if creativity is understood in this way, and if we need to cultivate creativity, how can education be transformed? It's very simple, don't interfere, don't try to cultivate creativity, give choices, create an environment, let him get what he wants more easily and cheaply, that's a good education. And what about our education now? In a local saying, if you are too diligent in waiting, you always want to interfere, I look at you, how can I give you some creativity, how do you know that you can give him creativity? We humans can only figure out how to destroy creativity, and we don't have the ability to figure out how to cultivate creativity now. Therefore, according to Mr. Zheng Yefu's judgment and academic research, when our education will change from intellectual education to emotional intelligence education, and when our education will change from an education that is overly intrusive and too diligent in waiting, to an education that looks like a bystander, is more gentle, reads stories, and looks like a bystander, then there is hope for our education.
Luo Fat Dead Bibliography:
"The Pathology of Education in Our Country" by Zheng Yefu - The one-child policy is the root cause of the college entrance examination fever that cannot be cooled down, and excessive revision is a weapon to destroy creativity.
Roman soldiers
I don't understand the goddess 12
The landlord is hard
Every day happily
A Luo basket 3
【Third paragraph】What we have just introduced is the profound observation of Mr. Zheng Yefu, a well-known sociologist in China, on the issue of education in China. This book, I took it wrong (it was Luo Pang deliberately, haha ^_^), this is the book of "Luo Ji Thinking", this is Mr. Zheng's book. Okay, let's bring a little private goods and talk about Luo Fat's personal observation angle.
For example, at the end of the nineteenth century, many big cities in the world, London, Paris, were distressed by the problem of horse manure, so many carriages, too much horse manure, to solve the problem of cleaning, did this problem finally solve? No, it's that the carriage is gone, and the street is full of cars.
Therefore, the solution of many social problems is not the solution of the problem, but the disappearance of the problem itself. I think it's quite possible, why? Luo Pang is going to talk about his housekeeping again, because of the Internet, many people say that you Luo Fat is fetishism about the Internet, and what the Internet is is a good thing. I'll say slowly, do you listen to the truth?
It turns out that our education, as Mr. Zheng said, is an arms race, and everyone has to run to the top of the pyramid, but the Internet, the top of the pyramid has collapsed, and Sister Furong, who is mixed at the gate of Peking University, is better than the graduates of Peking University; At the gate of Beijing Film Studio, Wang Baoqiang, who patrolled, is better than the graduates of Beijing Film Academy. At this time, you will find that the original tower is the way for everyone to be promoted, and this uniqueness has been lost, and on the contrary, the people who were competing desperately and desperately there, but suddenly discovered, what's going on? Didn't you say it was okay? Doctoral students have food and drink, eat fragrant and spicy food, "learn literature and martial arts, goods and the emperor's family", why can't doctoral students find a job now? During the school period, the best schools give a subsidy of 800 yuan, and then when it comes to graduation, it is difficult to find a job for two or three thousand yuan, how can this be?
That's it, because in the Internet era, it's not just your pyramid that is the battlefield of competition, there can be a rise of individuals everywhere, if you want to understand this, go out and turn left, and watch Luo Ji Siwei There was a program before, called "Lying Down Can Be a Hero", which is about this truth. There is a battlefield of competition everywhere, and the only game battlefield suddenly shatters and collapses, so what is the result? As a result, the original educational arms race is no longer relevant, and the possibility of the existence of the entire school system will be questioned.
So what does this scenario look like? I still remember when I was a graduate student at the Beijing Broadcasting Institute, now called the Communication University of China, the school held an auction, and in the end, the students might be funny, holding a textbook on ideology and morality, probably something like that, a tattered book, the original price was more than two yuan. The auction teacher is more level, and he told everyone a paragraph, saying: How good is this ideological and moral teaching material, and then the students started to coax and ask for the price, two yuan, three yuan, five yuan, all the time, everyone began to join this joyful competition, and finally called 120 yuan. There was a very sharp female voice shouting, 120 yuan, the audience suddenly fell silent, and then suddenly a voice quietly shouted, slowly rhythmically, the audience was shouting this voice, what? "Silly ×, sell it to her, stupid ×, sell it to her ......". This reminds me of the poor competitors who are still fighting on the doctoral examination site today, they are competing for a mountain that has been thrown out by everyone, this is too sad, the Internet has deconstructed the centralized structure of traditional society and the competition scene of the pyramid, so will the arms race continue? I doubt it.
The second point is that the Internet has brought a new kind of intellectual pressure, why does the traditional industrial society score points, why does it have to build so many gold towers? Because the industrial age created a lot of knowledge, it is impossible to be a generalist, everyone has to be a specialist, enter the subject classification of the university, and then one tower after another, everyone climbs one, you have to think about it at the beginning, and then climb, this is the source of the institutionalized, that rigid system of school education.
However, in the Internet era, you will find that it is a bit wrong to climb like this, because the stock of knowledge is even larger, so huge that it has even overflowed to the extent that it is carried by words, books, calculus, and paper. I still remember in the United States, there was a scholar who did a study, and he classified all the geniuses in human history according to time and space, the time is about 50 years, about half a century, space, a city, he looked at which city in the history of the world had the highest talent. Finally discover three cities, one in Athens BC, one in London in the 16th century, and one more? It is the Florentine of the fifteenth century, to be precise, the 50 years from 1440 to 1490. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, all these giants appeared in this city, you know, there was no school in Florence from 1440 to 1490, where did all these people come from? Workshops, they learn art, become talents, all in the small workshop with the master, the kind of hand-to-hand guidance, the kind of oral transmission of this kind of knowledge.
On the contrary, if we look back in the 21st century, why did that era have the most talents? That's right, that learning method is a learning method that was forgotten after the establishment of schooling, and now looking back, I find it incomparably precious. You know, a lot of knowledge is now called KnowHow, called "practical knowledge", such as making dumplings, how many books do you read, you can make dumplings! Learn from the teacher, find a big lady, and you will do it in half an hour, as long as you don't be too stupid.
The knowledge system of the current school has been crushed by the rapid development of this society, for example, many schools have e-commerce majors, new media majors, you go to ask the teacher, has he ever done e-commerce? Teachers don't understand! There are many schools that offer new media majors, and if you go to that class, you look at the curriculum, or the history of Chinese journalism, the history of world journalism, there is no difference between me and when I studied journalism, the teacher...... Don't swear, he really doesn't understand, he just pretends that we are still building a discipline system, and the social development is too fast, and it will be crushed.
If you really want to learn new media, there are two ways in front of you, one way, work with Luo Fatzi for half a year, and the other is to find a school, you go to study new media, which way do you think you can learn fast? It's not that Luo Fatzi is capable, but we are in a workshop, I am trying to experiment while doing it, I don't have a high-headed sermon, and I don't have a formed knowledge system, so the workshop-like, student-like, master-apprentice-style education method may be much more effective in the future than the current systematic discipline system and school method, believe it or not!
In fact, in Western society, there is also a collision of these two ideas. Let me tell you a story, which is also in Mr. Zheng's book, in 1952, Eisenhower, the commander-in-chief of the Allied forces who had just been disarmed and returned to the field, went to Columbia University to become president, and he was not yet president at that time. Once, the president, who was a general and was used to commanding thousands of troops, went to the podium and began to praise people, saying that we have a professor, Professor Rabi, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944, which is still very good, and we should applaud such a professor! Then this rabbinic professor came to the stage and immediately gave him a salute in return, saying What did you just say? Say "our employee Rabbi Professor", are you mistaken, your president is our employee, our professor, is Columbia University, we can hire you! You see, what exactly is a school? Is it a place for a group of learned people to lead apprentices, or is it a mechanized system established by the modern state with institutions and disciplines? You see, there is also a conflict between these two perceptions in the United States, so will those schools in high-walled compounds still exist like this in the future? I'm skeptical.
This is the role of the second Internet, and what about the role of the third Internet? Now knowledge is not only expanding in the aggregate, but also the human survival scene to which knowledge adapts is also changing, here we have to go back to an old man more than 80 years ago, in 1932, the famous economist John Maynard Keynes, he said a sentence, he predicted, he said that in about 100 years, the economic problems of mankind will be finally solved. To put it bluntly, because of scarcity, such as lack of food and clothing, this kind of problem will be finally solved. 1932, that is, 2032, is not a few years away, so will this be a reality? I firmly believe that from the perspective of 200 years of human history, we will continue to move towards prosperity, of course, there will be other problems, but there is almost no suspense about solving the problem of food and clothing, and in the life of our generation, global famine will no longer exist, I firmly believe in this.
Well, Keynes raised this question 81 years ago, when food and clothing are solved, that is to say, all the ultimate and most eternal problems in the history of human evolution are solved, well, human beings have entered a lot of leisure time, what kind of life do we have to deserve that kind of leisure life? Yes, this problem is very serious, we now look at the United States, 2% of the population solves the problem of feeding all Americans, and the agricultural problem is solved. If you look at 3D printers, the new industrial revolution, and the energy revolution, it is likely that in the future, 2% or 3% of the population, all the manufactured products of human beings will be solved! If you want to understand this, go out and turn left again, and watch one of our previous programs, called "It's Not People Who Race with You", that's what we're talking about.
And what about the rest? He will not be unemployed, but a large number of people will move into a new industry called mutual entertainment and mutual service, and those industries, those wonderful ideas, we may not be able to imagine when we stand in the early years of the 21st century. The Chinese are relatively advanced in this regard, and we can invent the profession of massaging the feet that makes the world cry ghosts and gods, and this is the invention of the Chinese. But in the future, this is the way to creatively serve each other, you dance for me, I sing you a song, which TV show will we go on to do a reality show, etc., we will serve each other like this, very happy!
Well, what kind of knowledge was needed for education at that time? Need not to pursue the happiness of results, my God, this thing can be cultivated by the current education system that pursues results? There is a book that I would like to recommend to you, written by Witzkin in the United States, called "The Art of Learning", which is also translated as "The Way of Learning", who is he? is a prodigy, at the age of 13 he got the title of international master of chess, and then this guy is really incredible, the friends were stunned, he later became the international champion of China's Tai Chi pusher!
He was in the book, and he said that I am a person, and I found out that I actually neither really know chess, nor do I really understand Tai Chi, what I really understand is learning, so he wrote this book. This book is very interesting, he talks about a detail in it, he said that I learn chess is different from others learning chess, all chess players, when he is determined to become a professional chess player, he starts to learn from the beginning, how to swing, there are several ways to open at the beginning. Fortunately, I learned chess, and I will die when I learn Chinese Go, and I have a book of formulas, more than 10,000 formulas, and just a big avalanche formula, which is enough for you to remember for a lifetime, and many people learn from here. He said that I was very lucky, I met a teacher when I was a child, and I was asked to learn from the endgame, basically just a few pieces, and what I felt was the subtlety of the ever-changing on this chessboard, and my learning was not result-oriented, I was oriented to this subtlety. In the process of learning, what I found was a balance between knowledge, creativity, inspiration, and intuition. And all the chess players who start learning chess from the beginning have only one result in their hearts, but they don't have it in my heart, and those who chase the results of victory, he has a very dangerous psychological hint that leads him to the career of a very hard chess player who does not know what it means to be brave or what it means to create. He said, and I didn't.
Yes! The world of the future needs all kinds of wonderful ideas, the explosion of the charm of various personalities guided by interests, the kind of fire that we give birth to from the depths of life, and the illumination of the whole world.
To sum up the above three points, the Internet society will definitely completely eradicate the industrial society, in order to solve the stock of knowledge, in order to solve the social competition of all people, the field of the arms race, and this will not be too long. So not long ago, I met a university teacher, and I told him that he was really heart-to-heart, digging out his heart and lungs. I told people: You still have to think about changing careers, you see that you are in your twenties this year, I estimate that your university is not a good university, Peking University and Tsinghua University will always shine I believe that your university, I think you have to think about changing careers. As a result, the young teacher laughed and cast a contemptuous look at me, guess how I did it, I also laughed and cast a contemptuous look at him.