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Text | Miki porridge
Some parents send their children to international schools and have some psychedelic ideas.
For example, in order to convince themselves of the unique value of hundreds of thousands of investments, they belittled the public, saying that public schools learn thousands more Chinese characters than private schools, and that the little knowledge learned in primary schools can be learned in a short time if you are willing to learn...
Every time I hear this, I can't help but think, this is really never seen a good school.
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I have this kind of bar-like idea because I have been hit.
A friend, a top executive of a foreign company in the top 500, once said when drinking, he used to think that his child was a genius studying in an international school, and he should have the opportunity to fight for the Ivy League.
So, they tried to transfer their children to the top public schools in Beijing, because there are the most IVFet schools every year. The first month she sent her child in, she knew what torture was.
Look at other people's math is not nothing, children's global genius camp are always able to keep up with the test, see others with high English scores, this is nothing, international school all English classroom there, grammar and writing supplement is the advantage. The most frustrating thing for her was the moment she got the first language paper...
She looked at me and said word by word: "Especially discriminating against parents who are not good at language, really can't do it." ”
I don't believe it.
How to say that she is also a naked hard-core bully who rode the dust in her student days, the best among women in the workplace, with both high INTELLIGENCE and high knowledge reserves, and can not even do the volume of the first two weeks of the first two weeks of the first year of school?
She didn't say a word and forwarded the roll directly to me. I still have some expectations for the difficulty of the volume, it is certainly more difficult than when I was in elementary school, but with my rich accumulation and the breadth of various miscellaneous studies, it is still not a problem to complete the first quiz.
Thinking of this, I opened the roll... It is difficult to repeat the mixed feelings of the time.
This content has 6 pages and takes 20 minutes to complete.
I only remember that that night, I was all stumbling on this first grade language volume, exhausting the experience methods such as analysis, exclusion and intuition, from the four famous works of the Dream of the Red Chamber to the recent Song Dynasty hot drama Qing Ping Le, more than 30 years of knowledge accumulation, and finally stumbled to complete this language volume.
The score is not mentioned, anyway, the mental blow is quite large.
This is only the first grade of public junior high school, in other words, the sixth grade of elementary school is measured. After the test, I was in a trance, as if I saw the childish faces behind the rolls, hiding my skills and names.
The mother frowned and said: When other children are learning Chinese, what did my son learn? Is it literacy? That's no more than others recognize.
Originally read the primary school themselves have enough attention, know that the language must be insufficient, reported to the beijing famous teachers of the small class has been following the serious learning, every year 30,000 kilometers of oil burning, the result was not passed in the end.
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Her anxiety, I especially understood. As a mother tongue, a tool for deep thinking, language depends on daily accumulation, and it is difficult to catch up when it falls.
Recently, I was struck by an essay by a fourth-grade child, entitled Reading Wang Wei's "Deer Village" with Feelings, asking to restore the poet's state of mind.
The article reads:
Now, the calm of the mountains surrounded me. Once, the endless opportunities in the desert stirred me. And the excitement of watching the hunt makes the longest and loneliest journey feel noisy. The funny teenage years have passed, and the middle-aged companions have left. But I am not alone, because at this moment, there is a sense of compassion with the scenery to accompany me.
In the empty mountains, the voices of the people are in the distance, or near? I can't be more sure. I don't know how long I stayed in the mountains. As the sun sets, I can clearly see the light between the branches and the moss on the stones. I'm in my heart, and I've lived my whole life. Now, finally, there is calm.
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I was shocked. "I've lived my whole life in my heart." The concise and philosophical sentences accurately describe the Zen life of Wang Wei, a "poetic Buddha", which is actually written by a fourth-grade child. I'm 18, no, 28 can't write a sentence like that.
What's getting in my way is the word won't you? Definitely not! It is the understanding of poetry and empathy with poets, in order to restore the wind and bones of ancient literati with such natural and free words.
Show it to my friends, but I don't believe it's an essay for a fourth-grader. What is the writing style of a fourth grader? They are still racking their brains for 400 words. The number of words is enough to be remarkable, what else is ideological?
Sigh.
Because I know that this fourth-grade kid recently got his homework to write the novel "The Hero's Journey", which soared 10,000 words in three days on New Year's Day. ... Regardless of the level of the article, just this word count, my eldest sister can't code it for three days!
That's the gap.
Some friends don't think so, even if it is a fourth-grade child's work, what about it? Han Han would write that it was a gift, and genes were destined.
I think that talent must have played a role, but if the teacher does not understand the beauty of poetry, does not know how to take her to Wang Wei's door, how can the child begin to understand the magic of ancient poetry?
It is the education of the school and the level of the teacher that opens up the gap between children and children.
△ Chinese Culture Class - The Crossing of a Chrysanthemum
If the language class is at such a level, do parents feel that the gap between a few few less language classes in international schools is just a few thousand words?
Some friends retorted that what is the use of learning ancient Chinese? No one will improvise a poem in ordinary times! Moreover, this friend also said, I am not surnamed Ouyang, what is his Ouyang xiuzi number, what is his mood? This kind of learning of yours is too strong, and there is no need at all.
Then I don't understand. As a Chinese, it is not good to learn their own culture, retain their own heritage, have to pursue foreign culture, suck the exhaust of second-hand knowledge, what is the picture? Is it difficult for blonde friends to really be when you are relatives?
Middle-class families who have long wanted to understand are not enthusiastic about pure international education, preferring to choose bilingual schools.
Just like the mother of a fourth-grade child, who has worked in Silicon Valley for ten years in the United States, after returning to China, she chose a bilingual school with solid and in-depth education Chinese.
She said that the more you learn Chinese you can have a little more cultural self-confidence, and the expectations of this generation of parents for children are children who can speak "poetry" in English to foreigners, rather than half-hanging banana people who do not understand culture inside and outside.
I especially agree with this parent's choice.
△ Chinese Culture Class - Zodiac Signs
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Solid and deep, it's the ultimate in teaching, but I've hardly seen it.
Because the class time is always limited, if you choose to dig out ideas, you will delay the promotion and get points, take care of one or the other, and balance is difficult to do.
There are also many schools in Beijing that engage in big language, play tricks, take children to study Tang poetry and Song ci to learn Chinese culture, and we read journeys to the west in the second grade of primary school, but it is only a glimpse of floating clouds and reading a form.
Because of the time spent on culture, exams have to pull famine. Doesn't the teacher want a face? You can only stare at the projects you want to take: new word groups, sentences, and writing essays.
Some private individuals feel that this is very uncultured, on the contrary, they only talk about reading and traditional culture, and as a result, senior children write essays, a large number of new words, and cannot write.
A strong language education is to be able to do a good job in culture on top of solid basic skills. Just like a child who reads Wang Wei, he can write beautiful articles and write beautiful words. This one is highly difficult.
△ Chinese culture class
Mathematics has the same problem.
A parent told me that the preschool teacher let me brush the speed calculation within 20 years, saying that the computing ability determines the quality of mathematical learning. He didn't believe that the addition and subtraction method within 20 would be in the 3rd grade, so why waste time? It is not as important as developing an interest in mathematics.
As a result, the child's five-minute calculation in the first grade did not meet the standard, the teacher called the parents, and the parents were anxious, forcing the children to brush while crying...
Math is not easy, is it still difficult to pick up children?
I didn't say that, it was Principal Yang, who was in charge of math at the fourth grader's school. Teachers and parents, she said, picked up the easiest path to speed up and forced children to hate math.
The third grade grade was broken. Because before taking high scores, it was not mathematics, it was memory. At the beginning, the understanding of abstract concepts is not enough by memory.
Before, many people thought that Chinese children were the first in science in the world, and running abroad to apply for schools could sweep away Indian brothers. In fact, this really has to learn mathematics, and the scores brushed out cannot stand up to scrutiny.
To learn mathematics well, it is based on understanding, such as learning how numbers come from in the first grade. She designed a "Little Savage" project:
Primitive society did not count, we went to herd sheep, wondering what the sheep were all back? The wild sheep, go out and put a stone, go out and put a stone, and when he comes back, he comes back and puts away a stone, and the sheep all come back. With the development of society, there are more and more sheep, what if it is inconvenient to find stones? We have to find a particularly large stone, just go out of this batch when put a big stone, this is not the decimal ...
I said, I know this teaching is of course good, but which parent can stand it? Compared with friends, people's children's answers come out in seconds, and their own children are squealing... Some parents can't stand it, and some of them transfer schools.
She said that education is all about slow work. If you look at primary school textbooks around the world, although each has its own characteristics, the knowledge points are similar.
Therefore, how to educate mathematics can achieve the standard of knowledge points in the school section, depending on whether you choose to use it as a tool for further education or as a prop for thinking.
She gave me a second-grade stereoscopic graphics class for a child to build a Big Ben in a square volume of wood. Groups of five discussed the study, and a lesson was covered.
△ Mathematical stereoscopic graphic project, learn mathematics in life
The three-dimensional figure can be clearly carried, and the piggyback hand understands the proportional relationship of the line segments. This is real mathematics. Some time ago, parents wanted to investigate the learning results to send their children to the competition, and won back several gold awards.
Few public cattle in Beijing can do it (not because of insufficient teachers but too many chores of teachers), Beijing HD Bilingual School has actually done it...
Sigh, after listening to it, I just want to transfer schools.
△ Through Mondrian's square painting, learn the perimeter and understand the beauty of the mathematical order
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Seriously, I never believe that parents spend tens of millions of dollars to send their children to expensive private schools, just to do a good job in the construction of spiritual civilization, and they are willing to send them abroad to mix diplomas.
If you do not seek the results of education, you can lie flat at the door of the house to read a small dish, rich time to teach yourself, save money and do as you please, how good is this?
Spend tens of millions of dollars to buy school district houses, pay 102,000 yuan a year to go to private schools, from a full file of English mathematics training classes, but also with piano ballet hockey a variety of talents, is the middle class idle money too much no place to spend? It's not all about achieving your educational goals.
With goals, the outcome of learning is important. Only schools with insufficient teachers will advise parents to look less at grades, more about the development of children's interests, and whether they love school or not.
If "love to go" is the standard of a good school, then isn't an amusement park the most qualified school? The difference between school and paradise is that education has a purpose.
The truly good schools that parents seek, even if they teach their children a knowledgeable subject, can still fascinate them deeply.
For example, the fourth-grade children mentioned above can read poems and read them to "fall into" them, so as to achieve empathy with poets across thousands of years. As far as I know, she wasn't the only kid in her class who could write such an article.
Quality education is not easy to do, but it is not impossible. The hardest part is the teacher.
It's not that if you get together with Dr. Qingbei, you can call on the dragon to fight monsters. It's about looking at a school teacher who loves his job or not.
If you want to attract children's interest, the teacher must first be full of interest in knowledge; if you want to make students challenging, the teacher must first challenge the impossible; a teacher who likes to think can bring out students who love to think; a teacher who likes to iterate on himself can educate students who dare to try.
Miraculously, in Hurd really put together such a group of people, obsessed with teaching, willing to challenge.
Silently went to the school twice, saw the primary school students lying on the ground to complete the Chinese Culture Week project - Du Fu's epic painting "Stone Trench Official", the poetry sentences came with their mouths open, I was really quite convinced.
△ Fourth grade students making Du Fu's epic scrolls
Choosing a school is choosing a life. Whether the school is good or not, parents vote with their feet.
In September last year, Beijing HD opened a middle school, and many families who finished primary school chose direct promotion, which is rare in the international education circle, because the parents of primary schools know that secondary schools cannot be sloppy, but they still have no remorse.
Without further ado, let's mention the results of 2021 National HD students!
70% were admitted to the world's top 30 universities and won the admission of Oxford University physics (bachelor's and master's degrees), 100% of THE TWO CONSECUTIVE HURD graduates were promoted to the world's top 50 universities, and 100% of the university of Hong Kong's application success rate.
△ A corner of the HD Secondary School campus
△ Outside the auditorium of HURD Middle School
Xun Zi said: It is better to hear than to see; it is better to see than to know; it is better to know than to do...
If you are also curious about this school, you may wish to see it for yourself, or listen to the principal's sharing meeting, you will definitely be rewarded.
I was very mobile, and immediately after visiting the school, I went to ask if I had a grade level for my children, and was told that I needed a waiting list...
Cough, now parents are good to choose ah.