Fighting doesn't necessarily win.

On the eve of this issue's deadline, it coincides with the election in Wudu, Taiwan Province Province, and the streets are full of banners and slogans of candidates, which are full of uninspired language. Among them, the one I can't agree with most is that "if you work hard, you will definitely win." Because this is not only a slogan, but also an old thinking and burden that hinders the progress of Taiwan Province Province.

On the eve of this issue's deadline, it coincides with the election in Wudu, Taiwan Province Province, and the streets are full of banners and slogans of candidates, which are full of uninspired language. Among them, the one I can't agree with most is that "if you work hard, you will definitely win." Because this is not only a slogan, but also an old thinking and burden that hinders the progress of Taiwan Province Province.

There is a simple rule in management: "Doing the right thing" is more important than "doing the right thing". Choose the wrong road but run forward seriously and desperately, and you will never reach your goal.

And this simple logic can explain the biggest difficulties and problems in our education today. Because of the confusion of goals and unclear priorities (what kind of next generation should we cultivate? What are the priority objectives of basic education? What's the order? ) makes students and teachers spend too much energy and do unnecessary things, but ignore the "really important" goal.

For example, in the nine-year primary and secondary school curriculum, in addition to the original eight learning areas, there are seven themes that must be included in the curriculum: gender equality, environmental education, marine education and home economics education. Whenever a new topic appears in the society, even if it is only a "theme" or "atmosphere", one of the ways for * * * to show its responsibility and determination to solve the problem is to announce "joining the primary and secondary school curriculum, starting from primary school". The "financial management education" to be added next year may be an obvious example.

Therefore, our students, parents, teachers and even education administrators are spinning like a top. I haven't figured out what marine education is, and I have to start teaching financial education again. Everyone is exhausted, but is it really rewarding?

1PISA, the international 15-year-old students' reading literacy assessment released on February 7th, may give some warning to Taiwan Province province, which loves fighting.

Taiwan Province Province ranks at the bottom of the Chinese-speaking world. Hong Kong and Shanghai, which participated in the competition at the same time, have followed the footsteps of international reading ability indicators and made substantial reforms and adjustments to the curriculum and teaching; And our junior high school scene, in the stage of working hard for the basic exam, is still relatively backward. In the period of abstract thinking, it is the best time to cultivate the ability of learning to interpret, think and judge, but our junior high school education rarely gives teenagers the opportunity to ask "why". Lock the child's brain power in the painful learning experience of repeatedly memorizing, reciting and filling in inferior test papers.

This cover story, on the one hand, we analyze and compare the international education goals and priorities listed by PISA; On the other hand, it has once again penetrated into the scene of junior high school education. Editor-in-chief Chen Yahui spent a whole day, as a junior high school student, describing the face of our junior high school education in four counties and cities with different resources: encouraging balanced enrollment of five educations, not taking exams, and turning it into a duck-filling competition in which art, sports and music all require written test scores; There are more than a dozen papers to be tested every day, and the ranking report is posted on each student's desktop to "motivate" them to make progress.

The survey of Chinese teachers in junior middle schools highlights the absurdity of Chinese education scenes. Even though everyone claims that the goal is to pass the basic test, the basic test is no longer any version of translation, rhetoric and dictation, but a test of the "ability" of understanding, thinking and interpretation. But it is still difficult for teachers to make students recite all the fill-in-the-blank questions. Universities have seen the bitter fruit: they have been forced to instill more "knowledge" that adults think they have since childhood, but they have created a generation that has no motivation to learn and hates true knowledge.

If there is any significance in the evaluation of pizza, it is to remind us that love may not win; It is valuable to find the "right goal" and work hard.