Chapter 449: Educational Reform (Part II)
It may be difficult for many people to understand that compared with Japanese education, the most praised place of Soviet education by Hu Weidong is the test-oriented education that Chinese education thinks is very good, of course, if it is accurate, the test-oriented education in the literal sense is only available in China, because only Chinese teachers and students have the so-called "answering skills" This concept, and the strongest place in Soviet education should be called knowledge learning
On the premise that the knowledge has been learned, there may be no students from any country on Shijie who can pass the Chinese exam, but few people know that junior high school students in the Soviet Union, including later Russia and many Eastern European countries have basically completed the knowledge that our high school students have begun to learn, and the high school stage has to start courses that many Chinese college students can learn. As for college students, it can be said that a qualified Soviet science and engineering student may never have a test score comparable to that of the Chinese, but they generally have the ability to carry out independent research, and the vast majority of Chinese college students need additional specialized training or become graduate students
It is conceivable that even if the Soviet students did not have to frantically gnaw on the "mountains and seas of questions" like the Chinese students, the pressure of study was not less than that of the Chinese students. As with China's tactics of questioning the sea, Soviet education is so crammed into the minds of students that the side effects are inevitable, and the number of top scientists in the Soviet Union has historically been far less than that of the West (but it is still much stronger than China). It was not unrelated to the rigid mindset caused by the early acceptance of a large amount of knowledge, but the Soviet Union produced the largest contingent of engineers and applied scientists on the Shijie. The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have always been quite strong in mathematics, the basis of all science, so on the whole the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, especially for China, a backward country that is still in the process of primary industrialization, and we will not need theoretical scientists for the time being, but applied scientists and engineers will be urgently needed for at least the next two or three decades
And if compared with Chinese education, the superiority of Soviet education is even more obvious, although the same academic burden is heavy, but Soviet students at least learn more useful knowledge, while Chinese students only get useless answering skills when they leave school, and waste so much time and energy! Furthermore. Soviet educational model. Students' earnestness and diligence are far more important than "flexible minds", which is more in line with the requirements of college and future practical work, and an excellent middle school student who is only clever and good at doing problems is far less than a peer who may not be so flexible in his brain but who is more serious and hard-working after entering college and even later participating in practical work. This may be the main reason why "high scores and low ability" are only common in China.
Hu Weidong is interested in why teachers who are alone in China like to make difficult questions, and even have a habit of deliberately setting traps that are impossible to encounter in practical work. He had in-depth exchanges with Taizu, who was also very disgusted with the traditional Chinese education model. The latter believe that it is likely that China's official-based tradition has something to do with the remnants of the ancient imperial examination system. To put it simply, education in ancient China was ultimately aimed at cultivating talents who would become officials, so it was more important to have a flexible mind than anything else. Otherwise, it is strange not to be played to death by the enemy in the political struggle, and the spirit of study is relatively secondary (in other words, the plausible things of the Confucian classics cannot be studied in the first place, and rotten Confucianism like Kong Yiji is the result of drilling the horns of the bull). )。 But the problem is that after entering the era of industrialization, the number of qualified workers who can meet the requirements of modern large-scale production determines the comprehensive strength of a country, if your national strength is not good, then it is difficult for officials to turn things around no matter how capable they are, so modern education must be universal education (at least it must be based on universal education), with the cultivation of qualified workers as the main purpose, and China's education model still has a large number of remnants of ancient Confucian education, which is a big problem
In addition, learning the Soviet education model can also shorten the education cycle, as long as you study for eight years and graduate from junior high school, you can carry out a small secondary school to receive professional jishu training, at least a jishu worker after coming out, it is not impossible to learn haode to be an excellent engineer, on the one hand, it can alleviate the country's shortage of jishu talents as soon as possible, on the other hand, it can also reduce the financial burden of students' parents, after all, China is still too poor, Nowadays, Chinese families often have five or six or more children, and even if the tuition is free, it is difficult for the family to hold on if the children work too late
It's just that it is difficult for teachers to change their habits all at once, and the amount of knowledge that students need to learn has increased dramatically, which undoubtedly greatly increases their already not light academic burden, and there are even complaints for a while, and even some students express their dissatisfaction with various reasons such as "opposing oppression" and other very characteristic of the times, and even some people directly sue Taizu, and Taizu is the most opposed to cramming teaching, so it is natural to stand on the side of students, resulting in a rare fierce dispute between Hu Weidong and him. As a traverser, Hu Weidong knows how serious the consequences of the school Ma Fang Nanshan during the ten years of turmoil, so in any case, the liberal tendency of Taizu's ideology must be curbed in advance, objectively speaking, completely laissez-faire learning may not be impossible to produce talents, for example, Zhang Tiesheng, who handed in the blank papers, later became a successful entrepreneur, but the problem is that work like management is very social, and social practice is actually more important than professional learning. But the most urgently needed talents in the country now are science and engineering professionals, these hard work to lay a solid foundation into the job, that is absolutely incompetent, you must know that even a genius like Shen Hong, has gone through extremely hard self-study.
In fact, at least for scientific and technological talents, especially applied scientific and technological talents, it is impossible to get something for nothing, just take the University of Science and Technology of China, which was ridiculed by later generations as learning maniacs, and the top dozen Chinese scientists in the world (including those who went to university in China but later became foreign nationals. Among them, more of his college career has been spent at USTC than all other schools combined, which is enough to show how important it is to work hard. Even in Western countries, which are considered by domestic public opinion to be quality education, those outstanding students do not start working hard until they reach university, as rumored to be, but begin to study hard as early as middle school or even primary school (to be continued). For mobile phone users, please go to read. )