Jia Fan Primary School is located in Group 1 in Goucun Village, Baolun Town, Lizhou District, Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province. This mountain village primary school can't be any smaller. The school has 28 kindergarten children, 43 primary school students and 12 teachers.
Most of these children are left behind, their parents work outside the home, and teachers, like students, live on campus and go home on weekends.
For left-behind children, the first reaction of ordinary people is very miserable. When they grow up, they have no parents to accompany them, and no one cares about their lives. They live in a mountain village, and they can't receive a good education. It is difficult to get into college. It seems that all the bad things happen to them. They are so unfortunate. In this case, how can Jia Fan primary schools become world-class primary schools?
First of all, it is really unfortunate that children have no parents, but it is precisely because parents are not around that teachers are fully responsible for children's education, and parents can't intervene, so teachers can instill all their educational ideas into children. After all, teachers are more professional than parents in educating children. Sometimes some parents' wrong educational methods have a great influence on their children, and sometimes they conflict with teachers. Of course, it is not that teachers' educational methods are the best, so there will be no mistakes, but compared with parents, there are obviously fewer mistakes.
Secondly, the left-behind children in these mountainous areas are inferior to the children in the city in educational resources, and it is difficult for them to get high marks in the unified examination. It is difficult for them to enter high school, let alone college. But because of this, the teachers and principals of the school are very aware of this and don't worry about grades at all. Since I can't pass the exam, I won't take it at all. The school resolutely gave up the formal examinations, rarely let students take the examinations organized by the city and the province, and instead concentrated all their energy on the quality education of children.
Furthermore, look at the educational environment. Schools in the city have fifty or sixty students in each class. It is definitely not enough for a teacher to look after so many people, and naturally it is impossible to be familiar with every student. But Jia Fan primary school is different. There are always so many teachers in the school. Nowadays, many children are taken to cities by their parents, leaving fewer and fewer students behind. Now more than a dozen teachers take more than 40 students, and one teacher takes four students on average. Did you find it? Isn't this the small class teaching advocated by the city? Generally speaking, there are about 20 students in small class teaching, while there are only 4 students in Jia Fan primary school. This is super small class teaching.
In Jia Fan Primary School, there is a sofa in the classroom. Children can stand or sit on the sofa to listen to the class. Children study in a happy state. In this case, children will hardly feel tired of learning. They almost enjoy the best educational environment.
Besides, the principal of Jia Fan primary school thinks that play is the most important thing for children. Because it is a mountainous area, teachers can often take students to pick wild vegetables in the mountains, check the information together when they meet strangers, and finally fry wild vegetables and eat them together. Of course, in addition to picking wild vegetables, you can also grow food and visit and study in neighboring factories, all of which can be practiced by yourself. In these activities, children learned how to get along, how to communicate, how to work and how to harvest. On the other hand, in cities, these resources are almost non-existent, and children in cities can only learn theoretical knowledge and have few opportunities to practice. In this way, rural resources are the best educational resources.
In addition to good educational resources, Jia Fan primary schools also have an environment suitable for children's growth.
The famous psychologist Hades Harris said, "It is the community composed of peers, not parents, that has the greatest influence on children." Although most children in primary schools in Jia Fan are left-behind children with incomplete families, they form an equal, tolerant, confident and optimistic community, which is the most suitable for children's growth. Who would have thought that the original disadvantage of Jia Fan primary school has now become an advantage?
This primary school in Jia Fan was discovered by Professor He Fan of Peking University during his inspection. After fully understanding the education situation of the school, Professor He Fan came to the conclusion that primary schools in Jia Fan have returned to the essence of education, that is, educating people. On the other hand, most of our current education pays more attention to grades, and whoever has good grades is a good student, which also makes students work too hard for grades and ignores the growth of personality, which has deviated from the original intention of education. Maybe education doesn't need reform, it just needs correction.
In the eyes of Peking University professors, Jia Fan Primary School is the best primary school, and its model is almost the most respected Finnish education in the world, but most people still can't agree with it. After all, in cities, the competitive pressure is still great. How can children get into college without studying hard? Therefore, it is still necessary to start studying early, continue to make up lessons, and walk in front of other children. I began to learn Tang poetry at the age of three, memorizing multiplication formulas. Anyway, I can learn early. It is true that these early childhood classes let children get ahead of other children from the beginning, but these early childhood classes are often very simple things. When the child is well developed, it will take a little time to learn it easily. Some European countries have done research. Early education does bring obvious advantages to children, but after three to five years, these advantages will be washed away quickly. The longer the time, the less obvious the advantages of early education.
The most important thing is that early education delays children's play and affects their social and emotional development. Children will never learn how to play again.
Alison Gopnik, a developmental psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, pointed out in the book Gardeners and Carpenters that children's task before the age of 6 is to play. Playing is learning. Children must learn fairness, respect and social boundaries in practical communication, learn to share, help and friendship, and learn how to get along with others.
American education is not very academic in its initial stage. The real learning stage is high school and universities, especially universities, which is the normal order of cultivating students.
It is very important for children to grow up in a normal order. Every life needs to grow step by step, and it is impossible to encourage it.
Research shows that the growth of life perception ability is orderly.
This order is long touch first, then spatial balance, then taste and smell, then hearing, and finally vision.
Birds have a characteristic that they will follow their mothers when they are born. This is because they have hearing in the process of hatching in eggs, and they are used to their mother's voice.
Someone did an experiment. A few days before the quail hatched, the shell broke, and then the young quail was irradiated with changing light to stimulate the visual nerve of the young quail. In this way, after the quail is born, it will not follow its mother.
The reason for this is that quails are exposed to light in advance, which makes their vision develop in advance, interferes with the normal development of hearing, and leads to the inability to recognize their mother's voice.
It can be seen that the order of life growth is very important. If the order is disrupted, there will be bad consequences. Early education is a violation of children's learning order, which leads to many strange geniuses.
Early education is not desirable, nor is it desirable for primary schools to undertake too much study. The best education is probably like Jia Fan Primary School. Maybe these children don't have high test scores and can't go to college, but they are all sunny and confident children and people with complete personalities. No matter what kind of education these children will receive in the future, I believe their lives will not be bad.
If you ask where the education will be the best in the future, it must be what Professor Fan said. The best schools in the future will not come from cities, but from rural areas.