"God's Question" in the Interview of Primary School Freshmen
● A set of numbers, find out the rules and fill them completely: 12346() 12.
A group of children and eagles catch chickens together. One plays an eagle, a hen and eight chickens. How many children are there in the other three groups
● There are two cups of juice, the baby drinks half a cup first, and the mother fills it up again; The baby drank another half cup, and the mother filled it again. Finally, the baby drank it all. How many cups did the baby drink?
● Read the riddle by yourself, and then guess: A. A little girl, dressed in yellow, will shoot if you want to bully her; B. a small room with doors and no windows, with hot outside and cold inside.
Xiao Ming doesn't like to wear high heels. Xiao Ming doesn't need a ladder to change a light bulb. What characteristics do you think Xiao Ming has?
The chicken and the duckling walked together on the road, and the duckling fell into the pit. How should chickens save ducklings?
● Why don't polar bears eat penguins?
We can see that the academic courses of primary school students are becoming more and more ridiculous, challenging the limits of human beings. This is not just an individual phenomenon. Every parent who wants to be a dragon girl and a phoenix has built an invisible wall for students with every school that pays attention to the enrollment rate and test scores. Maybe it's not so extreme, but the faster, harder and stronger beliefs are surprisingly consistent. The common phenomenon in this kind of education is embodied in children, that is, "don't let children lose at the starting line" or even "pull out the seedlings to encourage them".
China Youth Daily reported that the largest parent-child parenting website in China commissioned an expert survey and found that "what stage do you think the starting line of children's competition should be set?" The average response of mothers to this problem is 18 months. 18 months! China children have just learned to walk and are already squatting at the starting line. Therefore, parents said in unison that they should develop their children's brain potential as soon as possible, fearing that their children would "lose at the starting line". Now, this sentence has become the best advertising word for many sky-high kindergartens and early childhood classes. Actually, this is a misunderstanding.
Higher education is not as effective as you think.
"Don't let children lose at the starting line" is largely to accept inappropriate advanced education as an advanced concept. Gesell, an expert in child psychology, believes that there are two factors that dominate children's psychological development, maturity and learning, and maturity is more important. There is no way to learn when you are immature, and learning only plays a catalytic role in maturity. Training in advance artificially and arbitrarily will bring children a double burden of physiology and psychology, affect their interest in learning, and even produce rebellious psychology.
American psychologist gesell once made a famous experiment: let a pair of identical twins practice climbing stairs. One of the subjects (code T) began to practice at the 46th week after birth, and practiced for 10 minutes every day. The other (code C) began to receive the same training at the 53rd week after birth. Both children practiced for 54 weeks, T practiced for 8 weeks, and C only practiced for 2 weeks. Which of the two children climbs the stairs better? Most people must think that T practiced for 8 weeks is better than C practiced for only 2 weeks. However, the experimental results are unexpected-C who has only practiced for two weeks climbs the stairs better than T who has practiced for eight weeks-C takes 10 seconds to climb the top floor of the special five steps, while T takes 20 seconds to complete.
Gesell analysis, in fact, it is still too early to start practicing climbing stairs in 46 weeks, and the children are not ready for maturity, so training can only achieve twice the result with half the effort; Climbing stairs in 53 weeks is a very suitable time, and children are well prepared, so training can achieve twice the result with half the effort. The enlightenment of this experiment is that education should respect children's actual level, wait patiently before children mature, do not violate the natural law of children's development, do not violate the internal "timetable" of children's development, and artificially accelerate children's development through training.
Psychology tells us that living anywhere is the starting line.
According to the psychology of children's development, children's psychological development is dominated by emotions and emotions before the age of five or six, and then they begin to develop cognition. The initial stage is to lay a good psychological foundation. Without a good foundation, rashly carrying out knowledge education is tantamount to building a house on the beach, with too much pressure, or once frustrated, it will make children feel afraid and tired of learning and inhibit the development of their thinking and creativity. Many people received excellent education in their early childhood, but many people grew up with mediocre careers.
Psychology has discovered the neural mechanism of lifelong learning, that is, life is the starting line everywhere. When blind people read, the cerebral cortex, which is usually responsible for vision, is deprived by their sense of touch. After being blindfolded for five days, the function of the visual cortex of normal people will also change, and they will do things in hearing and touch. Other experiments have also proved that the brain will constantly change the connection of neural circuits because of external needs. For example, neurons in the hippocampus that control memory will grow new neurons.
Therefore, there is nothing wrong with constantly developing children's potential when they are young, but it is not so "positive" to oppress children and make them lose their childhood happiness just to get rid of the anxiety of losing at the starting line.