【Representative channel】
◎Our reporter Zhang Jiaxing He Liang
"Education is about teaching past knowledge to current students, hoping that they will solve future problems." On March 11, at the third "representative channel" of the second session of the 14th National People's Congress, President of Sun Yat-sen University and Chinese Academy of Sciences Representative Gao Song, an academician, said that in the face of future uncertainty, education needs to empower students with learning, thinking and action skills, and then cultivate their creativity.
Innovation-driven is essentially talent-driven, and talent is the first resource.
In the "Representative Channel", two representatives from the frontline of education shared their experience in teaching, educating and cultivating talents.
Interest and hope are the source of innovation
"In my more than 20 years of educational career, I deeply feel that education is a career that cultivates hope." Representative Wang Xu, principal of Yali Middle School in Changsha City, Hunan Province, told the story of a boy who was paraplegic due to a car accident and worked hard to get into college. Tears filled the young man's eyes.
In Wang Xu's view, the adolescent stage is the jointing and booting stage of life, and it is most in need of active guidance and cultivation.
In recent years, a number of Furong schools have been built in Hunan Province, bringing the hope of education to rural children.
Wang Xu said that every child has his or her own interests, hobbies and specialties. We should make their strengths even longer and turn their hobbies into advantages for their future life development.
We must respect differences, believe in children, and inspire their talents, potentials and dreams.
Engage students in high-level research
How to cultivate students' creativity from basic education to higher education?
Takamatsu believes that the most important way is to involve students in more high-level research.
"Most problems in reality are complex and uncertain, and are often difficult to solve in a single discipline or major." In Takamatsu's view, academic research often does not have ready-made answers and can only rely on hands-on experiments.
For example, he led the team to discover metal-organic single-ion magnets for the first time, synthesize molecular materials in which ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity coexist in an orderly manner for the first time, and apply magnetic molecules to quantum information and molecular diagnosis and treatment. These studies all require continuous learning, breakthroughs, discoveries, and development. New frontiers.
"High-level research universities are the main force in basic research and the cultivation of basic research talents. Colleges and universities are the intersection of education, technology, and talents." Gao Song believes that by increasing the stable support ratio of basic research in research universities and optimizing the management and use of competition Initiatives such as the introduction of special research funding will better stimulate the enthusiasm of scientific researchers, thereby promoting the production of cutting-edge science and future technological achievements, and accelerating the formation of new quality productivity.
(Source: Science and Technology Daily)