During this period of time, there have been many written jokes in the public opinion field, and we can see the degradation of the use of words in society.
The poster of a company congratulating the Chinese badminton team for their success in the Tokyo Olympics unexpectedly used the congratulatory phrase "returning from the feather", only recognizing the word "feather" but not the word "punch", and reversed the common idiom.
Thinking of Yuan Longping's death before, some stars wrote "Guo Shi Wushuang" as "Guo Tu Wushuang" in commemoration.
These are not accidental cases, nor are they just input errors. Behind it is the problem of language ability.
Fudan Professor Deng Jianguo's Weibo quoted a senior professor's words: Students who used to learn journalism, Chinese were pretty good, but English was a mess; now students' English is pretty good, but Chinese is a mess.
Another teacher said that, in fact, their English is not much better.
Professor Chen Pingyuan from Peking University said in a speech that for elementary and middle school education, every subject is very important, but the practice of native language and literature may be the most important and affect you throughout your life.
Looking back for a lifetime, in fact, it is the Chinese class that has the greatest impact on you.
Chinese teachers play an important role in connecting and integrating middle school knowledge in middle school education. They are thinkers in the educational community of middle schools, are important shapers of middle school students' values, and play the role of ideological ferrymen for middle school students to enter the university.
One of my feelings is that every college student who is thinking, individual, and good at thinking in the university generally has a middle school Chinese teacher who is thinking, individual, and good at thinking in middle schools.
Chinese in middle school is too important. Today, students move towards the society to determine the key qualities of life and work, such as critical thinking, writing ability, and reading judgment. Most of them can find their source in generalized Chinese education.
Professor Qian Liqun said that Chinese teachers are responsible for giving students "spiritual foundation" and feelings for the beauty of language.
Yes, Chinese education determines the key qualities that affect our lives.
Having a good Chinese education and laying a good foundation in language and writing allows us to maintain a serious and hard reading habit under the feeding environment of video images and entertainment culture, allowing us to have a strong boring tolerance and not to be "small essays". "Rhythmic critical thinking, fluent writing and expression skills.
These are the qualities necessary for modern society to define a person's "excellence": hard reading habits and boring tolerance allow us to be exposed to the most valuable knowledge; critical thinking, people can always be in the same See the difference in the process, see the abnormality from the normal, and have the sensitivity to innovation and the desire to create; the smooth and clear expression does not need to resort to the intermediary of others, and more is seen, understood, and appreciated in efficient communication.
The first important ability that Chinese education gives us is the ability to read seriously.
Don't think that "reading" is easy. Can you try to open a book and read it right away?
Reading to inform knowledge (to gain new knowledge) efficiently is not an easy task. It requires a good Chinese education since childhood.
Reading a text is not just to train students to find the "central idea", "writing purpose" and standard answers, but to immerse students in a dialogue with the author, gain pleasure and learn new knowledge in the dialogue.
This process requires deep concentration, and immersion in it can first be astringent and then smooth, first slowly and then quickly, to reach the new knowledge.
When I communicated with the "college entrance examination winners" of Peking University and the National People's University, I found that they are not just "excellent candidates", they are not exquisite examination machines, but they have read a lot of books in middle school, and they have strong reading and knowledge skills.
Influenced by Chinese teachers who love to read, they seldom read on their mobile phones. They can resist the temptation of strong stimulation, concentrate on the paper classics, and "chew" one book by one.
They devote themselves to physical work, capture the multiple and in-depth information in the book while reading attentively, and diligently record the quintessential passages that touch them with pen.
The reading accumulation and habits developed in the middle school Chinese class allow them to have a better performance in reading literature, searching for information and in-depth cognition after entering the university.
In daily media consumption, people can swipe their phones to watch videos for a long time, but they can’t sit down and read a few pages of books. They lack the training to concentrate on reading. They are accustomed to inertness by videos with strong stimulating massage effects, pursuing relaxation, Interesting, intuitive, dynamic, and pleasant, with extremely low tolerance to monotony and boring.
Without the ability to read seriously, it is impossible to build a rational personality that is contemplative, active thinking, and in-depth knowledge.
In the middle school, if the Chinese teacher is a person who loves to read, he can quote in his lectures, draw more interesting materials from one material, open a door for students, and arouse students' interest in reading a certain book or a certain type of book.
The second most important ability is critical thinking, mastering the methods of discrimination and judgment in thinking training.
At the middle school stage, Chinese education must go beyond the language norms and narratives, and move towards written thinking and thinking.
Valuable reading and writing require thinking support, and critical thinking is the most important thinking of modern people.
Critical thinking is not about letting people criticize, deny, or refute, but is the ability to go one step further where others stop thinking (answers, conclusions, dogma, authority, common sense), ask exploratory questions, and analyze in evidence Reasoning, and finally the process of making some unique and convincing judgments.
Whether the composition can explore a unique perspective above the average candidate, build a full structure, and drive effective argumentation, is the operation of critical thinking.
What do you use to "criticize"?
Critical thinking is based on sufficient reading. With the accumulation of reading formation, seeing the world of knowledge, and broadening your horizons, you have the "capital" to ascend and stand higher to "criticize".
Goethe said that knowing only one is tantamount to ignorance.
Mastering diverse materials and perspectives is a prerequisite for criticism. The reason why many people lack critical thinking is that they only have "monary thinking" and are satisfied with accepting a standard answer and fall into "ignorant certainty."
Through the accumulation of reading, at least know that many things have more than two possibilities, not only knowing the "one", at least knowing the second, the third, and even the fourth, in order to form a comparison, an investigation, an analysis, a dialectic, and a false thinking. Thinking, using "No. 2" and "No. 1" and "No. 3" for a critical dialogue, creativity is driven.
This is the key secret of creativity, and innovative insights are reflected in this dialogue process.
Chinese education should open the thinking valve to students through rich reading, and critically think about "one" in the knowledge of "two" and "three", draw inferences from one another, and then create "fourth" and "fifth".
The third most important ability is writing, which is the final output of words and thoughts.
Writing is not just writing, but a process of making thinking clear and solidified. Thinking needs to be driven and organized by output. Only when expressed in words can the clear thinking be forced.
Therefore, if you want to make your thinking clear, there is no better way to express it.
Clear thinking and active writing achieve each other. Writing is the activation and arrangement of thinking, awakening the "thoughts" of the subconscious state, and colliding with ideas to generate more ideas, so that the brain, hands, and mouth form a smooth and coordinated state. When you think about it, you can write it clearly and then speak it smoothly.
Text output is a manifestation of comprehensive ability. This is why the college entrance examination, postgraduate entrance examination, public examination, recruitment, etc. require writing an article. The support for "text output" is how many books a person has read and critical thinking. Activeness and diligence in daily writing.
Writing can also cultivate a kind of dialogue and reasoning personality. Thinking stays in one's mind, just a kind of "self-righteousness", and when you write, you must accept the scrutiny and criticism of others.
This process of writing while talking with others is a process of cultivating one’s sense of common sense, logic, efficiency, rhetoric, and persuasion.
In fact, a person’s values are formed in reading, thinking, and writing. In reading, he jumps out of his own narrow life world and talks with history, the future, the cry of distant places, the wisdom of ancient times, and the distant back. , Think about things other than self-interest, and believe that those distant cries will eventually be related to oneself, so that oneself have the civic virtues of sympathy, compassion, kindness, courage, and altruism.
Brosky said a sentence to the effect that it is more difficult for a person who has read Dickens to hurt his kind because of any kind of thought than a person who has not read Dickens.
The "spiritual foundation" of Chinese education, in the daily training of reading, thinking, and writing, shapes a full personality that is closely related to public affairs and public interests.
Cao Lin Source: China Youth Daily