Reflections on Watching Daughter's Homework

Zou Jingzhi published "My Daughter's Homework" in Beijing Literature in June1997165438+10, which triggered a comprehensive reflection on Chinese education in China.

To put it simply, a daughter's homework is a father's mental journey of looking at her daughter's Chinese learning. This paper narrates from several angles, proves by personal experience, and analyzes the problems existing in the practice of contemporary Chinese education. The article begins with "study hard". My daughter has a heavy homework burden and learned to stay up late at an early age. "Now the ability of some teachers has penetrated into the family." Children "study hard", parents follow "hardship", and the whole family is shrouded in the atmosphere of "study hard". As a father, although I very much hope that my daughter can be a phoenix nirvana, I can't help but feel bitter when I watch her being worn away from the innocence and aura that originally belonged to children.

Then, the author began to list her daughter's usual learning content to see what makes children study so hard now. To sum up, there are roughly several aspects. The first is to learn the exact definition of words. The article wrote: "I didn't expect the teaching method of Chinese to go deep into the dictionary." In his view, dictionaries are tools, but people are not. It is meaningless to explain the word "depression". The key is to be able to use it. Redundant teaching content naturally increases children's learning burden. The author even saw the shadow of tedious teaching in her daughter's math homework. A math problem has a very strict format and steps, and there is a language explanation behind a formula, which greatly reduces the efficiency of doing the problem. The second is the uniqueness of the correct answer. The author gave an example of a problem that my daughter had done. The title requires that idioms be written according to the meaning of the sentence. You know, there are many idioms with similar meanings. Her daughter was wrongly judged by the teacher because she didn't agree with the answers given. "It is not only misleading to say that what is right is wrong, but also harmful. It not only hurts one person, but hurts a generation. " The most important thing is that children regard the teacher as an absolute authority. What the teacher says is right and others can't refute it. Therefore, improper teacher education will affect a child's life. The third is composition writing training based on template. The content of the composition written by everyone is surprisingly consistent, such as giving an umbrella to the teacher and so on. Together with the three elements of time, place and people, a composition is "freshly baked". For students, writing a composition is just to cope with the exam, and their composition does not show the imagination and childlike innocence that a child should have.

The whole article touched me deeply, not only because it pointed out and criticized the disadvantages of contemporary education in China, but also because the surging feelings in that sentence are the most sincere love for my daughter as a father, so it will be very expressive in the article. The author is writing about his own life, and he is thinking and confused after observing his daughter's usual study and homework completion. He is a personal practitioner of Chinese education, so he is talking about the disadvantages of contemporary Chinese education, not an armchair strategist. His words have soul, his words have temperature, and his stories are true. He makes the whole article deep, which is why I think these short words can make the whole article deep.