Brick-and-mortar education is not something you want to do, you can do it if you want to

On a quiet and quiet road, a boy wearing silk gloves held five bricks with both hands and walked forward with a little difficulty. There is no expression on his face.

From time to time he would wipe the sweat from his forehead with his arm and fan himself with a green apron he had mended himself. After each move, he would check the time with his white clock and take a sip of water from a blue water glass. Then he stood up and walked numbly to the next section of the familiar brick path.

This summer vacation, on a small road by the Yuhangtang River in Hangzhou, almost every morning, someone saw a little boy carrying bricks back and forth. When asked, he would only say "exercise."

This boy is called Xiao Zhu. He is 11 years old this year. His parents have withdrawn him from school and let him study at home.

The child's father also said that moving bricks was to exercise Xiao Zhu's willpower and body, and he had chosen other schools for him, so he would start school later.

According to Principal Lai of Xingzhou Primary School in Hangzhou, where Xiao Zhu originally attended, in September last year, Xiao Zhu’s father came to the school to ask for a month’s leave for him, saying that he wanted to transfer his child to a very good private school. The school said that after long-term attention and on-site inspections, it hoped to let the children attend. The school agreed to a month's leave.

A month later, the child's aunt came to the school and said that the school the child attended was a private school in a private house in a ravine without any qualifications, and asked the school to assist in recalling the child to Xingzhou Primary School to study.

? "I immediately found the child's parents and asked them to send the child back to school, but they did not agree." Principal Lai said that after that, she talked to Xiao Zhu himself to learn more about the child. I really hope to go back to school.

So Principal Lai talked to parents several times, talking with them for a long time from the perspective of the "Compulsory Education Law", "Minor Protection Law", as well as the children's growth patterns and needs, but the parents always insisted on their own practices.

?"Alas! This child is a very good child and is developing very well in school. Our school holds subject competitions and he wins prizes. He is also a member of our school's track and field team and runs very fast. , everything is very good, our teachers like this child very much," Principal Lai said with great regret.

Once this incident was reported, it caused an uproar on the Internet. The news comments I saw alone were close to 10,000.

After people see this kind of news, they quickly fall into line. Divided into two factions, one denounces society, denounces illegality, and denounces parents. The other group denounces teachers, denounces schools, and denounces the education system. The two groups refused to give in to each other.

To be honest, news like this has been common in the past two years. It won't be long before something comes out and sparks a heated discussion among the people.

Now if you search on the web, you will see many new education methods. Some make children carry bricks and cement and work intensively, some make children drop out of school and travel around the world, and some make children drop out of school and travel around the world. Some take their children on adventures, such as going into the deep sea, climbing over grasslands, crossing deserts, and climbing the poles. The most common is to throw young children into private schools in the mountains to read the Four Books and Five Classics.

Many people in the comments praised this new type of education. And lists a lot of advantages and benefits, as if everyone has experienced it personally. But how many people who have posted comments like this have actually done it? The answer is obvious. After all, saying it is more enjoyable than doing it.

The most common example they cited was that children no longer wanted to go to school, and parents asked their children to drop out of school and join the society, or do what they wanted to do. Then most children realize that society is dark and their interests are nonsense. The lost way only returns, the prodigal son turns back. Finally, he returned to school and worked hard to become a top student.

Just looking at the ending of this kind of story is so inspiring and exciting. But you forget, their final counterattack was not in the so-called society, nature, or private school classroom. But in a school criticized by new-style parents. This kind of example does not explain anything and is not representative. It cannot be used as evidence for new education.

At this time, someone must be refuting, saying that today's teachers are so irresponsible, neglecting teaching tasks every day, and resorting to various teaching methods in order to make money. There are also teachers who transfer a large amount of teaching tasks to parents.

To say that the education system is dark and unreasonable, the nine-year obligation is becoming increasingly unrealistic. Education gradually obliterates students' individuality, and they can truly learn very little.

It is said that the social education environment is complex, and all kinds of inexplicable cram schools and interest classes have sprung up. Making money under the guise of education.

It is said that times have changed, and education is no longer a single form of rote learning. No matter what method, as long as you can educate your children well.

Yes, these are correct. These are all problems and realities existing in China today. These may take many decades to slowly change through the reform experiments of generations of children.

It takes ten years to grow trees and a hundred years to cultivate people. No one stipulates that there is only one way of education in the world. But education is really a huge subject, and its implementation is a huge project. If you don’t have enough time and energy, just listen to fragments of other people’s experiences, or just come up with random ideas, you shouldn’t use children for experiments. Let the children who should grow up happily become the guinea pigs under your new education.

And 11-year-old Xiao Zhu is.

Reporters also went to interview him.

Ask him why he didn’t go to school since school started today? He said: "I stopped going to school. I went to fifth grade before the summer vacation. I was going to sixth grade now, but I dropped out..." The reporter was surprised and asked him why.

Xiao Zhu said calmly : "First, the education in schools now is not good. Second, I can learn it myself." He said that he comes here to move bricks in the morning and studies English by himself in the afternoon. He will not study other Chinese and mathematics for the time being. "I will learn English in the future." It's very useful. My parents don't care about me and let me make most of the arrangements myself." The reporter explained his identity to him and he said, "You are in the media? Don't promote me. If we publicize it, many people will come and pay attention. Some people are saying that it is impossible not to go to school, but that's what the 'new education' is, and many people still can't accept it.

The idea of ??dropping out of school was proposed by my parents. They talked it over with me and I agreed. You will be arrested, haha."

"Actually, moving bricks has another purpose. In addition to exercising, it can also meditate, because the purpose of meditation is to concentrate on just moving bricks. You can concentrate on things and calm down your mind. This is an experience I gained slowly when I was doing brickwork. My father would also analyze the truth with me during the conversation at night. ”

Xiao Zhu lowered his head and told the reporter as he walked: "My parents are at home when they are not working. My father is engaged in finance and stocks stocks at home. My mother is engaged in education and reads the Tao Te Ching with my sister at home. What I am studying now is 'New Education', which is taught by a very powerful person named Zhang Qingyi. You can read his Sina blog, which talks about 'New Education' and talks about many ways for children to learn. "< /p>

My grandson has a good personality, is very obedient and honest, but my son has a bad attitude and is very fierce. The grandson is a little afraid of his father. My son has a very stubborn personality. After finishing college in Wuhan, he worked in Hangzhou. My wife and he were college classmates. My daughter-in-law is engaged in education, and my son started speculating in stocks a long time ago.

Later, my work unit was restructured, so I stopped going to work and concentrated on stock trading. When my son was trading stocks, he met a man named Zhang Qingyi, who had research on stock trading. He went to another place to attend a class with him, and paid 20,000 yuan to teach children about education. After he came back, his children were not allowed to go to school. . The heartbroken Grandpa Xiao Zhu said in despair.

I shuddered after seeing this interview. It turns out that there are not only sales MLMs in this world, but also education MLMs! First the parents are brainwashed, then the children. They are waving the banner of new education and operating a pyramid scheme.

The most frightening thing is that some people blindly support and praise this approach after reading articles that were taken out of context by some media. But they don't know that this is just adding insult to injury. Make the poor child even more pitiable.

I am not against new education, but I am against blind practices, extreme attitudes and outdated methods.

I once saw a data: In 2013, the 21st Century Education Research Institute, a private non-profit organization, released the "China Homeschooling Research Report": about 18,000 students in mainland China receive education at home.

When talking about this new type of education, we have to mention the fairy tale king Zheng Yuanjie. Zheng Yuanjie’s son, Zheng Yaqi, returned home to study after graduating from elementary school. He left home at the age of 18 and used the savings he earned from working to found "Pipilu" magazine. He carried forward his father's fairy tale business and founded Beijing Pipilu General Mobilization Culture and Technology Company and served as CEO.

As a fairy tale king, Zheng Yuanjie takes advantage of his own advantages and also combines the characteristics of children who love fantasy and fairy tales. He personally compiled 10 sets of teaching materials, featuring his own fairy tale protagonists.

In terms of content, in addition to focusing on knowledge education in traditional subjects, he also opened language and mathematics students. It also considers the children’s future needs for social development and overall development, and adds subjects such as philosophy, law, health, and self-help. One story and one knowledge point, combined together, form a complete fairy tale.

In terms of interpersonal communication and social integration, Zheng Yuanjie did not despise social values ??because he was separated from school education. He tied the flag to the heater and performed a flag-raising ceremony every Monday. Since elementary school, I have taken my son to watch performances, play ball, and meet people every week to maximize his exposure to society and develop his interests. After he turned 18, he also fulfilled his promise not to care about him anymore and provide him with any financial help.

There is nothing more suitable than this new type of education. Every parent has the right to make educational plans for their children, but please do two things before you decide: first, you must seek your children’s opinions, and second, ask yourself whether you have the determination and confidence to make your children better. Happier.

There is nothing wrong with moving bricks, nothing wrong with adventurous travel, and nothing wrong with studying in private school. What is wrong is that you think this is what the child wants, that this is what you should do, that you are doing it for the good of the child, and that your method is right...

Education has never been a debate. A trip that can be taken on the fly is not a punctuation mark that can be changed on the fly. There are some things that you should think about before you do them, and there are some things that you should think twice before doing.