Is education for performance or for ability?

Is education aimed at achievement or ability? The question you asked is too realistic. Our current education is based on performance.

The original purpose of education is to cultivate children's comprehensive qualities. To put it bluntly, it is aimed at cultivating abilities. I think this is the essence of education, but the actual situation is that education is aimed at performance.

Why do parents focus on their children’s grades but ignore their children’s ability development? Because in reality, only if a child gets good grades can he hope to go to a good university and obtain a higher degree.

I suddenly remembered the child who got zero points in the college entrance examination more than ten years ago. He thought that he was capable and could still find a good job and live a good life without a diploma. How is this boy doing now? He couldn't find a good job at all when he was looking for a job, because it was a diploma that he thought was useless that kept him out of the company. Ability seems so pale in front of a diploma. This boy now regrets his original willfulness and finally knows the importance of a diploma.

A person's ability is indeed very important at work, but there is a premise here, that is, you must be in this job position before you have the opportunity to use your abilities. If you want to get this job, you can't get it without a degree.

Looking at it this way, do you think ability is more important, or academic qualifications?

This is also the fundamental reason why quality education loses to exam-oriented education.

So, do you think education is based on performance or ability?

The education I received as a child was achievement-oriented. Now when teaching children, I hope to cultivate not only their grades but also their abilities.

Many people say that you cannot have both, but in fact you can have both.

Some people say that parents are divided into levels: 1. Parents who are willing to spend time with their children; 2. Parents who are willing to learn for their children; 3. Parents who are willing to change themselves for their children.

In fact, I think these are not just three levels, but three steps for parents to advance. My personal experience in raising children has found that only when you spend time with your children will you realize your lack of knowledge about child care, and then you will be motivated to learn more child care knowledge. When you learn child care knowledge, your cognitive level in child care will be improved. Only then do you think of changing yourself. Some people must aim for results first.

I am from a rural area, and I passed the exam because of my good grades. After going to college, compared with the classmates around me, I found that: I am lacking + a frog in the well. This is reflected in all aspects of life, study, social interaction, etc. Maybe except for the achievements, there are no other advantages.

Fortunately, my roommates and counselors at the university are very good. The good thing is that they are not only friendly, but they will not only tolerate my lack and short-sightedness, but also give some suggestions based on the specific situation. Because the way they express their suggestions is also very friendly, and they are expressed in a very peaceful way that I can listen to. This is what everyone says: If you think you are comfortable getting along with someone because you get along with them, but in fact they are talking to you in a reduced dimension. Not on the same level.

Because I met them, I began to work hard to cultivate myself. I went to the library, participated in the better activities of the department, and consulted and chatted with outstanding people and teachers.

Although it sounds easy to say it now, my four years of college were very lonely and painful. The process of getting closer to outstanding people is very frustrating. Whenever I think we can be similar, I will find that they are higher than expected.

This is the way their parents’ cognition, knowledge, and worldview have brought them up. They have a broader vision and wider knowledge.

Future generations see the world from the shoulders of their predecessors. The height of the parents' shoulders determines the height of the child's eyes.

How can it be possible to catch up with others in only four years? This is a very realistic thing.

However, if I was born in a rural area and had poor grades, I would really have no chance to meet these classmates and teachers.

If you can't see a higher place, it will be impossible to go to a higher direction.

Just like Zhang Guimei, who founded a girls' school in a mountainous area, she requires her female students to also focus on their grades. Because this report card is a passport for these girls to have access to better educational resources.

Although, rural children who rely on test scores may not be as good as those children who originally came from the city because of their own limitations and stay in the city to develop. But they changed and came out of the mountains or rural areas. In a hard but legitimate way.

In other words, if your family is in a rural area, your family conditions are limited, you have no money and no connections, and your parents’ cognitive level is limited, where do you get the capital to cultivate your children’s abilities? Once you have the conditions, focus on both performance and ability. But a child's physical and mental health and sound personality are more important than grades and abilities!

A child with good grades and good abilities is the most ideal state.

We hope that our children will have good grades and abilities because we hope that their children will be successful in the future. The vulgar idea is: Develop your ambitions, have your own career, and become a master. The noble expectation is: to be a useful person to society, to benefit the country and the people, and to become a pillar of the country.

However, is it enough to just have good grades and ability?

There are so many examples of top college students in the news. They have good grades and good professional abilities, but not only have they failed to achieve themselves, they have also caused many problems.

Therefore, before good grades and abilities, there is a cornerstone: physical and mental health and a sound personality.

On this basis, we must consider whether to train children for performance or ability.

In fact, the purpose of education is to educate people, and grades and abilities are a person’s added value. Achievement is a school's KPI, and ability is a person's ability to survive in this society.

The above are some of my experiences and opinions, I hope they can help you!

Are there any conflicts between performance and ability? Are they opposites? How can there be ability without achievements? Aren’t grades just ability?

Scores and abilities. For students, scores are abilities. In the 12th year of education, just add those few courses and add extracurricular activities. If you learn those courses well, you will be better than not learning them well. As for things other than courses, go to society and go to school. All kinds of learning are a lifelong matter for anyone. The learning of some things cannot and should not be completed with 12 years of education.

I just saw a news about a boy who only scored 85 points in the test and was thrown by his mother on the highway and exposed to the sun for six hours [picking his nose]

I feel that I want to get into college for the purpose of getting into college, and I can’t go to college. Without knowledge, there is no ability. Generally speaking, the better the university, the more knowledge you will learn and the more solid your abilities will be. So if you can say 985, people won’t go to 211. If you can go to 211, you won’t go to ordinary universities. Don't talk about the fictitious stuff, focus on the real stuff. The reason is very simple, why is it bullshit.

Quality education aims at ability, while exam-oriented education aims at scores. In the end, quality education was defeated by exam-oriented education. [Flash of inspiration]

Nowadays, in order to improve their children’s academic performance, parents enroll their children in many cram schools! They study all day long and are not allowed to do any housework. As a result, many students have good academic performance, but they do not even have the most basic survival skills, including instant noodles! Tell me how you can survive in society, let alone work!

Aiming at parent satisfaction