REFECTIONS ON EDUCATION

I want to share some of my reflections on the education.

Some days ago, I went to a GIVE program which was meant to train us how to be a good teacher. When the trainer communicated with us, he told us something about Singapore education nowadays. I was astonished when he said that children has to be classified after their examinations for secondary school, however, when I looked back, I found in china this is also very severe and normal. And this rule and common sense of the social are so cruel; it pushed everyone to improve their grades frantically. Then, I thought of something I read from a book written by Li Kaifu, in that book, he hold the opinion that the only judging standard for the most society. But there is supposed to be many different and open-minded standards which are for people to develop to different fields. I would like to introduce one of my genius friends in my secondary school; she is very brilliant and talented in arts. What’s more, she just insists her own ideas and has her principles. To be honest, she never does any of the homework and is able to stick to one question for a day. Though she didn’t get great results in exams, she sometimes is able to solve some problems which can’t be solved by even the teacher for several years. She is amazing, right? And now she is major in architecture, sometimes she will send me some pictures of her masterpiece, I have to admit, those pictures are fantastic. It was really a hard time for her to go through the high school, when we were growing up in the box of the society, she just chose a narrow path to go. I admire her a lot and I truly hope the society can offer a more open atmosphere for such intelligent people. Maybe the education system really needs some revolutions. I know it is unviable to say these, because everyone knows that there are something wrong in our education, but nobody can put forward some practical suggestions, so as the proverb saying, since we can’t change the world we live, just change ourselves. I didn’t mean to change to suit the society, instead, ask your heart, and then choose the way you truly want to go, and then, insist at the expense of anything.