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Xiang Du: What is a good education?

Original reading yourself as a method alone

On July 5th, the score of the Beijing high school entrance examination in 2022 was announced that the number of people with a score of 655 or more in Haidian District exceeded the sum of other districts.

The test has always been regarded as the most effective and fair way to change the fate by ordinary people. However, when education has become a means of taking the test, everyone competes for limited resources in education to exchange for the only track to run to the only track to run to the only track to run to the only track to run to the only track to run to the only track to run to the only track to run to the only track to run to the only track to run to the only track to run to the only track to run to the only track to run to the only track to run to the only track to run to the only track to run to the only track to run to the only track to run to the only track to run to the only track to run to the only track to run to the only track to run to the only track to run to the roadThe most advanced position is getting farther and farther from “people”, and its original face is becoming more blurred.

What kind of person should we educate the child in anxiety, or how can we enter the school that looks better in layers of selection?Have we used to go to a good school? Have we chose the right profession? These choices about education really make us a better ourselves?Does a good school provide good education or more advantageous social resources?Is the goal of education a better self, or a successful competition?

In “Taking yourself as a method”, Wu Qi and Xiang Du have talked about the topic of “education” several times. We will extract several of them in particular today.”What do you think is ideal education”.

“Putting the Passionate Girl”

80’s

Wu Qi: Where do you spend the main time in high school?What kind of book?

Xiang Du: High school is still important to me. I want to thank my alma mater Wenzhou Middle School.After I arrived at Peking University, I learned that many local middle schools across the country went up from seven or eight in the morning until 67 pm, and there was a late self -study. In our Wenzhou Middle School, it ended at 3 or four in the afternoon.Also sit there to self -study late.After class, students went to watch movies and buy things. We were very free in time. The pressure of studying was not particularly large.Maybe at that time, the treatment of teachers in the middle school was linked to the promotion indicators, so the teacher would go to class normally, and it would not be particularly increased.At that time, there were various interest groups, such as literature, drama, computer group, biological group … this is actually the tradition of Wenzhou Middle School.When I was in the art festival, I was an active member.

It was just a “cultural fever” in high school.What has a greater impact on me is the “Wenhui Monthly” co -organized by Shanghai.I remember particularly clearly that the editorial department was at 149 Yuanmingyuan Road, Shanghai.I read it carefully every issue, and I especially like to read long report literature.For Chinese literature and Chinese revolution, reporting literature is very important.Reporting literature has several important features. One is of course the bottom layer, the other is its directability, and the third is its thickness.Starting from Xia Yan’s “Baggian Gong”, to “Beggar Gang Drifting” … I went home to find some notes in middle school during the Spring Festival this year. I was surprised to see a lot of annotations.

There is also a publication. I always look at it. It is called “Appreciation of Masterpieces”. It belongs to literary reviews. It is very thick. It is also very dragged.I think it’s pretty fun, but it can’t be said on how much influence is now.I read something about “Idea Enlightenment” and came into contact with some young Marxism’s discussions on “alienation”. It was not to use political economics but from the perspective of “human liberation” to talk about social development and read it.

“Three Stupid Boy Bollywood”

Wu Qi: Is it also your personal enlightenment period in the 1980s?

Xiang Du: From 16 to 18 years old, this stage is very important.Start reading and start some comment.The first social survey was also in the 1980s, studying in high school.This also has to thank my alma mater.

The high school’s political class teacher took us to Yueqing County for investigation -now it is one of the bases for the production of Chinese electrical appliances, and it is also the place of my mother’s ancestral home.When I went to the factory to listen to the factory director, the classmates were all making trouble. The director was angry and said in dialects, “You are so noisy, I have nowhere to speak.”I listened seriously and sympathized with the director.We live in a guest house. I see the front desk waiter always set up a circuit board. I asked her where to come from the circuit board. She said that she was packed from a private enterprise run by relatives.I ask you how much money you take, knowing that her income from the circuit board is higher than that she is a waiter in the guest house, but the problem is unstable.Ask clearly, and then take a picture of a picture. Later, I wrote this matter, saying that private enterprises will diverge economic opportunities through family relationships to the entire village.At that time, there was a controversy in society that asked the private economy if it would bring polarization.I made a very speculative conclusion based on the example I saw, saying that there will be no polarization, because the opportunity to make money will be scattered to relatives, which will bring regional common prosperity.I am proud of this report.In fact, the observation at that time also had an impact on my research on “Zhejiang Village”.It let me see that a small enterprise, instead of being an organization, is better to say that it is a network.In other words, the enterprise is first of all a relative organization, social organization, and second is an economic organization.

I have not been attracted by the humanistic enlightenment of the 1980s, and later I became more and more disliked, and may have something to do with style.I remember very clearly that Zhang Jiasheng was the narration of “Heyao”.dislike.It seems to be a religious language, praying to human beings.I think I should be a normal person, and most people will not like this tone.Some particularly good students accepted that tone under a special school atmosphere or even a psychedelic situation.I have to thank my alma mater Wenzhou Middle School. At that time, it was a loose and pragmatic state in middle school.When I was still in middle school, my mother was a junior high school teacher and taught mathematics in another middle school.One day she came back and told me that she had a student in high school and admitted to college. Parents asked everyone to eat wine.As a result, some people said in front of the students that if there is any use to go to college now, that student is a bit awkward and unhappy. He is only seventeen or eight years old. He doesn’t know how to do on the banquet.Wenzhou is indeed a super pragmatic place, and it is strange that the literary accent is very strange.

Wu Qi: It seems that Wenzhou Middle School is a very special existence, because there has always been such a tradition in this place, or just catch up with the time before and after reform and opening up, only to develop a different ecology?

Xiang Du: Wenzhou Middle School is a relatively old school. A scholarly organizes it, named Sun Yanlang and engaged in Oracle research.The teachers of Wenzhou Middle School were Zhu Ziqing and Zheng Zhenduo.When the Republic of China was in the war, Beijing was a place of war. Shanghai was a Shili Ocean Field. For rich people, many literati were scattered on the side of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.It turned out that middle school was the highest school in the local area. It was very rooted. Now middle schools are mainly to train and transport college students from Beijing and Shanghai. Local universities also look outside with eyes, which is completely different from the middle schools under the gentry culture at that time.Early middle schools also played an important role in the revolution.Of course, at that time, I didn’t know what historical continuity here was. I felt that Wenzhou Middle School was a key middle school. The teachers were older. It seemed to be transferred from other places. I have experienced the “Cultural Revolution”.The concept of this task for students is okay in the college entrance examination. There is no need to compete with other cities, which is such a natural state.

“Dead Poets Society”

The pressure of young people

Wu Qi: After the 1990s, the main framework of discussing Chinese education in China was the division of quality education and test -oriented education. However, it was discovered that the so -called quality education has also deformed. Interest classes have become a new burden, and the pressure of learning has not been alleviated.

Xiang Duo: I am a typical Chinese -style education. I have to listen to class. I have to persist without interest. I have never imagined the joy of learning. Our teachers have not imagined to turn education into a pleasure.I will give you an example. I am a science and science. I am very interested, but I am not interested in history. I can teach students like me to have no interest. This historical lesson is ejaculated.Teachers have no concept at all. Why should I talk about this section that has nothing to do with now? What does this history mean and mean to today’s students?In this way, the facts of history cannot be activated.There are two ways to activate.One is to enter the interior of history. To tell the story of the Three Kingdoms in the Three Kingdoms, this is a relatively shallow way to tell it interesting.What’s more important is to establish some connections, such as the power of power between the Three Kingdoms, the changes between territory, and the people’s territorial consciousness. It is completely different from us now and can tell this level.

To be honest, Western education is still relatively strong.Our ability to grit is stronger than them, and we have learned things that Western students have not learned, but on average, their work enthusiasm and discipline are stronger than domestic education students.I feel that I have a doctoral degree and a master’s degree in myself, and the family consciousness of the undergraduate is also very strong.I generally do not teach undergraduate students, but once an undergraduate classmate has to make a paper called “comparison of garbage treatment in India and Germany”, mainly to study how people understand the relationship between clean and unclean.He went to the houses in India to pick up garbage and found that their home was temporarily rented next to the garbage treatment plant, but it was particularly clean, he had to understand their concept of life.In Germany, garbage has nothing to do with dirty. A large number of clean plastic packaging must be thrown away and forming a circular economy. Then you must care about the problem of throwing away what is thrown away.This is an example. It is very imaginative. You can see his Fun. He did not design this project based on what everyone said. Instead, he saw that the house’s house was so clean at the garbage dump and asked these specific questions.

Another student went to the Cambodian orphanage to study adoption policies to investigate why these orphanages were unwilling to let children be adopted by other families.She discovered that it was because the orphanage wanted to fight for international resources and funding by retaining the number of orphans.This is equivalent to the commercialization of humanitarian organizations in the context of global humanitarian aid industrialization.You can see the difference here. What are the problems of our undergraduate students at the age of 19 and 20?

“Genius Gunner”

Wu Qi: Now the biggest resonance of young people in China on the Internet is “funeral”. Now the conditions have become better, the degree of freedom has become higher, and has its own hobbies.Generally, it seems that everything is meaningless and cannot see the changes in life.

Xiang Du: Because the overall economy is growing, everyone can continue to rely on its return. The post -70s and part of the 80s can last ten or twenty years according to this situation, but this road must be finished.Fun means that he can have a lot of interest and enthusiasm for things itself, and does not require external returns to stimulate enthusiasm.Art and mathematics are good examples, which may be human nature.Our family and school education, forcing you to want to return alive, even if you have personal interests, you must not take this as a career.The orientation is very different.The enthusiasm of art is relatively natural. Those who love painting always love painting, but other work, such as research and public welfare, will involve many very tedious details. There must be a continuous enthusiasm.You cannot rely on spontaneous, but you need to pass education.

Wu Qi: The dividend of economic development may not be completely ended today. These very “mourning” young people are still in it, but they may not take these progress seriously.For example, everyone’s persistence about the hukou is slowly weakening, global or national flow is strengthening, and the scope of selection is no longer limited to North, Shanghai and Guangzhou, but more second- and third -tier cities, or to go home to the hometown. These specific aspects are actually actually aspects.It is progressing than before.

Xiang Du: This is very interesting. We need to provide a source of life meaning.Japan gave us a warning that there were many closed otakus and house girls, and their lives were very stable and solidified.Japan’s education is not very good. It emphasizes the spirit of craftsmen, emphasizes persistence and focus, and does not emphasize FUN.Another example, my nephew learns to draw paintings. I accompany her to a teacher’s house to talk about painting. The teacher said that you should draw a beautiful painting and draw a person’s portrait. If that person’s hand is not good -looking,Just put your hand behind and make everyone invisible.This seems to be interesting to children.But if you understand art as such a visual beauty, children will soon feel boring, because beauty is formalized and it is difficult to pursue it.The true charm of art is to produce a visual effect, let the other party think, reflect, and have the leading force of thinking. From this perspective, understanding art, the interesting space is large, and the child will think of a lot of problems.If you draw out the unpleasant hands and draw that kind of dynamic, it can be very touching.

This is back to the original problem. We must study and understand the laws of human society. We must have a relationship with ourselves. Otherwise, art is for beauty, as if it is a service work to please people.Everyone should look upside down, don’t think about it to please, and think about how you can be fun. Even if the service industry is very simple, such as in a hotel, if you observe it carefully, you can also be very fun. Go to see people like a little writer.Everyone is different when passing through the front desk, how to interact with him … If you give employees a lot of autonomy and space, it makes him feel that he is not a part of the mechanical, but as a social person to deal with people, and he will also be dealing with people.There are many innovations.

Genius Girl

University should find an exception

Wu Qi: Following the community problem, we will take another step, what other expectations do we have to expect today?What should university do?From your practice in Oxford to the reality in China, there seems to be a big difference and tension in the middle.