It may be difficult for many people to understand that compared with Japanese education, the thing about Soviet education that Hu Weidong praised most is the exam-oriented education that Chinese education considers to be very good. Of course, if we say it accurately, it is exam-oriented in the literal sense.
Education is only available in China, because only Chinese teachers and students have the concept of so-called "answering skills", and the strongest part of Soviet education should be called knowledge learning.
On the premise that all the knowledge required for the test has been learned, students from no other country in the world may be able to pass the Chinese test. However, few people know that junior high school students in the Soviet Union, including later Russia and many Eastern European countries, basically learned
After finishing the knowledge that we only start to learn in high school, high school students have to start learning many Chinese universities.
Courses that only students can learn. As for college students, it can be said that a qualified Soviet science and engineering college student may never have a test score as good as a Chinese, but they generally have the ability to carry out independent scientific research, and most of China's
College students need additional specialized training or become graduate students before they can
It is conceivable that even if students in the Soviet Union do not have to cram "Tishantihai" like Chinese students, the pressure to study is no less than that of Chinese students. With China's "Tihaihai" tactics, Soviet education is so cramming into students' brains
The side effects of the crazy infusion of knowledge in the Soviet Union are naturally inevitable. Historically, the number of the world's top scientists in the Soviet Union has been far less than that of the West (but compared to China, it is still much stronger.), and it has prematurely accepted the big ideas.
It does not matter that quantitative knowledge leads to rigid thinking patterns, but the Soviet Union has cultivated the largest team of engineers and applied scientists in the world. The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have always been very good in basic mathematics of all sciences, so in general, the benefits are greater than
Disadvantages, especially for China, a backward country that is still undergoing primary industrialization. We don’t have theoretical scientists for the time being, but applied scientists and engineers are in urgent need at least in the past 20 to 30 years.
And if compared with Chinese education, the superiority of Soviet education is even more obvious. Although the academic burden is also heavy, Soviet students at least learned more useful knowledge, while what Chinese students gained in addition was useless after leaving school.
Answering questions wastes so much time and energy! In addition, under the Soviet education model, students’ seriousness and hard work are far more important than “flexible minds”.
"More importantly, this is more in line with the requirements of the university stage and future practical work. However, an outstanding middle school student who is good at solving problems based on his cleverness will have a far less flexible brain after entering university and even later participating in actual work.
But peers who work more seriously and work harder do better. This may be the main reason why "high scores and low energy" are more common only in China.
Hu Weidong asked why teachers in China like to make the questions extremely difficult, and are even used to deliberately setting up traps that are impossible to encounter in actual work to disgust students. He once talked with a teacher who was also very disgusted with the traditional Chinese education model.
had in-depth exchanges with his ancestors. The latter believed that it was very possible to
The official-oriented tradition is related to the residual influence of the ancient imperial examination system. Simply put, education in ancient China is ultimately to cultivate talents for officials, so being flexible is more important than anything else. Otherwise, you will not be played to death by the enemy in political struggles.
It's weird, but the spirit of study is relatively less important (in other words
It is impossible to delve into specious things like Confucian classics. Corrupt Confucianism like Kong Yiji is the result of delving into the corner of a dead end.). But the problem is that after entering the industrialization era, the number of qualified workers who can meet the requirements of modern large-scale production determines the overall performance of a country.
Strength, if your national strength
No, then no matter how capable the officials are, it will be difficult to turn things around. Therefore, modern education must be education for all (at least it must be based on education for all), with the main purpose of cultivating qualified workers, but China’s education model still brings
There are a lot 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 go to junior high school to receive professional and technical training. After graduation, you will at least be a skilled worker. If you study well, you can become an excellent engineer.
It is not impossible. On the one hand, this can alleviate the country's shortage of technical talents as soon as possible. On the other hand, it can also reduce the financial burden on students' parents. After all, China is still too poor, and today's Chinese families often have five or six people or even more.
There are too many children. Even if the tuition is free, if the children work too late, it will be difficult for the family to survive.
It's just that it's difficult to change the teacher's habit of setting questions all at once, but the amount of knowledge students need to learn has increased dramatically. This has greatly increased their already heavy academic burden. There were complaints for a while, and some students even called it "objection"
"Oppression" and other reasons that are very characteristic of the times, express dissatisfaction, and even directly retaliate
Someone directly complained to Taizu, and Taizu was the most opposed to cramming teaching, so he naturally sided with the students, which led to a rare dispute between Hu Weidong and him. As a time traveler, Hu Weidong deeply
We know the serious consequences caused by the release of school horses in Nanshan during the ten years of turmoil.
Regardless of this theory, Taizu's ideological liberal tendencies must be curbed in advance. Objectively speaking, completely laissez-faire learning may not produce talents. For example, Zhang Tiesheng, who handed in a blank paper, later became a successful entrepreneur.
But the problem is that jobs like management are very social.
Social practice is actually more important than professional study, but the talents most urgently needed by the country now are professional and technical personnel in science and engineering. It is absolutely incompetent to enter the job without working hard to lay a solid foundation. It should be noted that even if you are
A genius like Shen Hong also went through extremely difficult self-study.
In fact, at least for scientific and technological talents, especially applied scientific and technological talents, it is simply impossible to get something for nothing. Take the University of Science and Technology of China, which was ridiculed in later generations and said that its students are all learning lunatics. Currently, it is among the top dozen or so in the world.
Among the Chinese scientists (including those who went to university in China but later became foreign nationals), college students
He has spent more of his career at the University of Science and Technology of China than all other schools combined, which is enough to show how important hard work is. Even in Western countries where domestic public opinion considers quality education, those outstanding students are not as rumored.
I didn’t start studying until I was in college, but I started studying hard as early as middle school or even elementary school ()