Perhaps many Chinese educators to see Time magazine recently published this article - "against the summer (The CaseAgainst Summer Vacation)", will be proud of them: You see, U.S. experts are calling for shortening the summer vacation! We are here to seize the summer, should be affirmed. In turn, will reduce the burden on students who oppose the idea.
Sure enough, in this article, an American scholar on the American students will affect the long summer vacation, global competitiveness, and the long summer vacation for students from poor families and there was not a fair analysis. By contrast, Chinese students to the summer was very strict, we are occupied, is the "advantage". However, our educators can not get too excited.
This is first of all I think about 30 years ago, a basic education on the American story. June 1979, China sent a delegation to the USA and basic education. After returning home, the delegation wrote a 30,000 word report, recorded in the knowledge section, the following words: "in elementary school, students, illiterate a struggle, still pulling fingers, Math, on the day talk about the invention create, in their eyes, let the earth off heads, seemed like a breeze. "classroom almost is out of control. Students or wink, or chatted, or legs crossed, even worse, such as shopping generally, in the classroom to Akira to shake. "The mission therefore concluded that: then two decades, China's science and technology and culture will catch up and surpass the so-called superpower.
The same year, the United States sent a delegation to China. They saw in Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an, after several schools, but also wrote a report in the following text: "Chinese students in the class, like the hands on their chests, unless the teacher to ask question, raised his right hand of one, or not easily changed; kindergarten students like to hand tied behind, except for outdoor activities. "" China has the highest student test scores as students learn best in their end of the semester will normally be a certificate, others are not. "So conclusion: China is the world's most diligent students, and in the world is from the earliest, the latest of sleep; their academic performance and any other country in the world with students compared to all the best. Can predict, another two decades, China in science and technology and culture, will the United States far behind.
30 years later, the two delegations of forecasting are wrong - the increasing ability of American education aspirations to world science Nobel Prize winners, and the Chinese education, the basic philosophy of education is still struggling.
This shows the problem? Set aside a huge gap between educational philosophy is not that there is that education is especially willing to China, "Comparative Education", we see the advantages of their own education, and lack of education in other countries. If educators Youyi U.S. experts call to reduce the summer the ground against the burdens on students, would be a continuation of this thinking.
Over the years, I see more of this "education more." For example, some experts the observation of American Universities, the return to the author pointed out that American universities now in strengthening the management and increase administrative decision-making power, which is to promote education to our administrative reform on the contrary, this suggestions is also good for the administration, do not easily go on to mention the reform of administration. This "more", looks like what the "new discovery" but were made in total disregard of American University Management and Higher Education Management of the huge difference in reality - in American Universities, the executive power is very "poor", and the right to education and from the absolute dominance of the academic right, so that administrative efficiency is very low, so only one said to strengthen the executive power; in our universities, the executive power almost to the right to education and academic power-take-all, the fundamental right of the right to education and academic status did not. Figuratively speaking, the U.S. government and the Bank of China the right to education universities, academic power ratio may be only a maximum of 2:8, while in our universities, the executive power and the right to education, academic power ratio at least 9: Some experts are to American Universities To strengthen the executive power, to prove the rationality of University of executive power.
Views of the school summer holidays, but also similar. U.S. experts request of the summer, and our summer vacation to study load, is an entirely different situation - according to the National Center for Education Statistics figures, other than weekends and holidays, U.S. children average 180 days each year in school, school less than a day 7 hours. Few students leave here as we enter specialty classes, makeup classes, training courses, but mainly part-time, volunteer services, or participate in other activities. In China, the holiday is on primary and secondary schools were "a nightmare", the normal school was also tired, and still busy. If in this case, we have asked the U.S. experts to reduce summer grounds to show that the summer vacation for students to study hard and legitimacy, it is not confusing right and wrong, taking the extreme right? - American scholar said reduced summer, but exploring the balance further, and not reduced to like us "no summer vacation."
With American education is often prepared and issued by the crisis rhetoric, beyond the fear of being compared to other countries, lack of proper education in China face the problem, reflect on educational issues, and they have mountains in the context of education, also launched the "Education and the success of" ; also have been carried out, "Comparative Education", remove the reality of his country's educational background, years of education for the wrong ideas, actions to locate the "experience of other countries" support. This approach to education, are we taste the ill consequence of education - oriented education more and more serious, educated personality and interests are stifled, the students created a serious shortage of energy and innovation, civic values, confusion ... ...
China has launched a new round of reform, to make education reform a success, we must face the problem of education, rational inspiration from the experience, can no longer adopt the "ostrich policy", and then immersed in the "educational success" in a false picture
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