63. Chapter 63
The next day, the newspaper published a column in the "Window of Education", and suddenly received many articles from people in the education circles. A debate over education reform has slowly begun again in this obscure section.
At the beginning, these people in the education circles only analyzed in a column a series of problems in Chinese education exposed in the "Window of Education".
For example, one of the key issues is the problem of educational inequity caused by the uneven distribution of educational resources, especially when several schools of different grades are compared together, this feeling is more obvious. When these experts lamented the poor grades of Xingnan Middle School, the poor school spirit, and the irresponsibility of the teachers, they analyzed it from a rational point of view, and felt that they seemed to be able to understand. After all, when the school has no money, the students can't squeeze any oil and water, and the teachers have meager salaries, and even food and clothing may be a problem, who has the heart to teach the students dutifully.
And the better schools of Provincial No. 1 Middle School are also constantly problematic. The first is that teachers are under too much pressure, and the level of teachers' salaries is linked to student performance, forcing these teachers to rack their brains and find ways to improve student performance. The heavy teaching tasks, a lot of lesson preparation, exam preparation, homework correction, tutoring students, etc., make many teachers feel physically and mentally exhausted.
The second is that students are overburdened with academics. Teachers are under pressure, and students can be relaxed. For example, students in Provincial No. 1 Middle School have morning and evening self-study in the first year of junior high school, starting at 6:50 in the morning and leaving school at 9:30 in the evening, especially for students who have to take the high school entrance examination in the third year of junior high school. In addition, the provincial No. 1 middle school has also formulated a strict class system, from 1 to 16 classes, with 50 people in each class. Those who can stay in the first class must be 1~50 students in the grade, and those who stay in the second class are 51~100 students, and so on, the more classes in the front, the better the teachers in the school. At the end of each mid-term exam, if the students who are at the bottom of the class fall out of the relative ranks, they will be transferred to another class. This practice not only increases the psychological burden of students, but also makes parents feel pressure. In order to allow their children to stay in better classes, it seems not surprising that parents ask for tutors and cram schools for their children. The pressure of going on to higher education makes these slogans such as "shouldering the shoulders of students" and "doing a good job in education" just a slogan.
If these educators started out with a little analysis, it has developed into a discussion about the direction of education reform, and it has intensified. It has been pointed out that Chinese education does not cultivate students' interest in knowledge and wisdom itself, and only interests students in the utilitarian consequences of scores. Moreover, he pointed out the essential difference between Chinese education and Western education, that is, Chinese education passively allows students to learn, while Western education allows students to learn actively. The extreme point even goes so far as to say that education in China can only cultivate slaves, not talents. He also believes that only by completely abandoning the existing education model and borrowing from the Western model for reform can education be truly vigorous.
But as soon as these words came out, some people immediately refuted them. If China's current education system needs to be reformed, it must also proceed from its own national conditions, and it is absolutely impossible to learn Western education methods in its entirety. He believes that the current education in China still has merit, and uses Qiongchuan Middle School as strong evidence to support his statement.
Indeed, when the banner of Qiongchuan Middle School was pulled out, those who said that they wanted to abandon the existing education lost their voices for a short time. After all, Qiongchuan Middle School is indeed a capitalized outlier in these schools.
For this reason, some scholars have also analyzed Qiongchuan Middle School from the background of the school to the geographical environment, but they really don't understand what is going on with this school. It stands to reason that Qiongchuan Middle School is similar to Xingnan Middle School in terms of teachers and environmental facilities, and even worse than strictly speaking, but why do they have so many valuable qualities in the students of their school that they hope to see in the younger generation of Huaguo.
As a simple example, one of the most obvious characteristics of the students of Qiongchuan Middle School that distinguishes them from other schools is unity. In schools such as Provincial No. 1 Middle School, because of the frequent class assignment, the students in the class are highly mobile, and the people in the class change four times in a year. In this case, let alone unity, it is good to be able to recognize all the people in the class. However, Qiongchuan Middle School is different, and their sense of cooperation is particularly strong, which is not only reflected in the atmosphere within the class, but also in the sense of division of labor and responsibility of everyone in the class. For example, the school arranges a half-monthly cleaning task, each time it will be arranged for fifteen people, and then they will discuss and decide their own tasks, tall people will take the initiative to wipe electric fans and other jobs, and those who know that there is asthma in the group will take the initiative to exchange tasks with him that will contact dust such as sweeping the floor or cleaning doors and windows.
In stark contrast, Xingnan High School, whenever someone came to check and assigned a cleaning task, their first reaction was to complain, and then they rushed to tell the class committee that they were going to clean the commons, and they all wanted to pick up easy work to do. So every time they clean up, more than half of the class swarms into the common area assigned by the class, holding a broom and hip-hopping. In this regard, the other three schools are directly pooled by the classmates and then directly ask an aunt to do the cleaning, which has caused heated discussions.
There is also one of the most conspicuous characteristics of the students of Qiongchuan Middle School, that is, they are extremely efficient in learning. Their study time is the least among several schools, but their grades have improved the fastest. The test papers of the same difficulty were done once in the first issue of "Window of Education" and once in the eighth issue, with only a month in between, but their average score increased from 60 to 72 points.
A full twelve! You must know that the remaining schools, including the first province, have only increased by two to four points at most. It is undeniable that part of this 12 points is also due to the fact that Qiongchuan Middle School's average score on the first test is too low, and they have much more room for improvement than the rest of the schools. But even so, this is a difference of 12 points in the average score. This reflects their current level of knowledge from the side, and they actually catch up with the school of the first middle school in the city, which was unimaginable before.
Because of the limited broadcast time of the program, each school only has more than 20 minutes of time. In addition, because in the first episode, Qiongchuan Middle School had the lowest ratings, and in the later episodes, the broadcast time of Qiongchuan Middle School was reduced to fifteen or sixteen minutes. This caused dissatisfaction among many scholars, who were already curious about where Qiongchuan Middle School was special, but who knew that after chasing seven or eight issues in a row, it was only about two hours in total, how could it be enough.
And who cut the content, it's broken and appetizing! Just now a student seems to have gone up to give a lecture, and they are curious about what this new teaching model will bring, but who knows, but it was cut... Cut ......
This suffocated them, and they couldn't wait to rush directly to the TV station, snatch the uncut part back, and study it thoroughly over and over again.
In fact, no matter how many people in the education sector are, they can't make a splash in the ratings. However, these people who are engaged in education have a characteristic that people in other majors cannot match, that is, there are many students.
So when the ninth episode was first broadcast, no one expected that the ratings would break 3 so suddenly. And when Qiongchuan Middle School came out, the ratings soared slightly, and finally stabilized directly at 3.5.
"Oh my God...... Is this true? When he saw the final ratings of the ninth episode, even the moody Li Guotai couldn't help but show a stunned look on his face. His first reaction was to be suspicious, knowing that breaking 3 in ratings means that it is already 0.4 higher than the highest rated talk show on provincial TV stations, not to mention that in the second half of the program, it was still stable at 3.5.
It's an absolute miracle! After reacting, Li Guotai was ecstatic. If the ratings of the previous episodes can only barely maintain the program without interruption, then after today, the program "Window of Education" will become a golden sign of their provincial TV station. This is what a remarkable achievement in his career!
After Li Guotai finally calmed down from his ecstasy, the first thing he did was to tell Wang Yongkang to move the previous plan about Skynet.
At the beginning, Wang Yongkang's plan proposed to release unedited clips on Skynet, but Li Guotai refused. There are two reasons, first of all, because he doesn't know much about Skynet, and thinks that the most important thing is the TV ratings, if everyone goes to Skynet to watch it, the ratings of Huidao TV will decrease. The second is because neither the newspaper nor the radio station was deserted before, and even for a while, the station was still discussing whether to cut off the newspaper and the radio station, so it was absolutely impossible to approve the mention of Skynet at that time.
But now the situation is different, not only are many big names in the education industry arguing and discussing in the column "Window of Education", which has made the sales of the daily newspaper continue to rise in the past few days, but also the radio has also reported that more and more people have begun to listen to "Window of Education", and more and more people have called the hotline through Guò, and even they have to extend the broadcast time on several occasions.
Li Guotai can no longer imagine how much waves it will set off in China after the full version of the online version is released that day.
……