Most people can answer this question intuitively. The survey report recently released by Forbes Chinese only gives more clear data-about three-quarters of the wealthy people in China are considering sending their children to study abroad. This is equivalent to "voting with their feet", suggesting that elites do not trust domestic education. Parents' choices are like a mirror, reflecting what our education is missing. What is missing from our education? Let's not talk about top higher education, just talk about young education. The latter is more critical, because for individuals, it is the foundation of growth and is related to the spiritual nourishment of future life; For a country, it is the bottom line of civilization, which is related to the overall quality of a nation. There is no shortage of "hardware" in our education, or the crux is not the lack of "hardware". At least for urban children, most children have bright classrooms and teaching equipment that can keep up with the times; There is no shortage of achievements in our education. There are always good news at the school gates of many primary schools. Most of the Olympic gold medals were won by children in China. There is no shortage of concepts in our education. In recent years, various attempts have been made in quality education, enlightenment education of Chinese studies and early childhood education. But something is missing. To see what is missing, we should first look at what an optimistic education should be. A good education should fully develop people's lives. No matter what kind of ability a person has, he can bloom with confidence to the maximum extent and reach the peak of his life. This is a very patient process, which is based on respecting each child's personality and giving full freedom. The education it needs is warm, humanized and can awaken creativity, not just a channel for further study. From this point of view, the current education is far from meeting expectations. Its disadvantages lie in attaching importance to "teaching" but neglecting "education", attaching importance to the preaching of knowledge and neglecting the nourishment of the soul. What our education lacks is "nutrition", which can nourish children's hearts. This is the result of utilitarian education. In fact, education can't just look at the results. Education that only focuses on results will inevitably be alienated into tough indoctrination or brutal assistance, thus losing the spirit that should be conveyed in the education process, such as respect, trust and tolerance. Many problems in current education are related to this crux. Teachers in Yanjiao Kindergarten in Sanhe let "disobedient" children eat boogers, drink urine and stick needles, telling them that "the teacher hit you because you did something wrong". Teachers punish children in order to make them obey, but the process is cruel and blunt, which is harmful to their growth. After the media exposure, the deputy director of sanhe city Education Bureau, its supervision department, responded that this kindergarten has a good reputation in Yanjiao, which is actually an honor. Corporal punishment and disguised corporal punishment are the same all over the country. The deputy director is right. In recent years, the circumstances of corporal punishment incidents that have been frequently exposed are similar, but such an understatement simply fails to realize that what teachers have committed is a taboo in education and cannot be said to be a collective loss of educators. Even in those schools where there is no corporal punishment, fractional theory is the norm. Education here is just a process on the assembly line of further education, which stifles rather than nourishes children's creativity. What they learn is how to deal with exams again and again, but they lack spiritual enlightenment, personality edification and development as all-round people. This kind of education is obviously imperfect. Dissatisfied parents will choose another way, or send their children to study abroad, or find a caring education in China-there have been many attempts to educate ethnic minorities in recent years, but under the current education system, this choice will cost a lot, and people without determination can't persist. In fact, education that nourishes the soul is not unprecedented in the history of the country. Looking through Fu Guoyong's "Past Primary Schools", those intellectuals in the Republic of China recalled that primary schools were practitioners of nourishing education. Teachers living in poverty only spend a copper coin to drink a bowl of soybean milk every morning, but they are willing to spend a dollar and eighty cents to order magazines for students who love reading. The students come from poor families and almost want to drop out of school. It is the teacher who secretly helps them support their studies. Nature is a spacious classroom. Science teachers lead students to catch insects in the wild, and geography teachers organize students to dig fossils. The school is divided into classes, but it is not bound by classes. Junior students can go to senior classes, and vice versa. Everything is based on students' interests and endurance ... Now parents are looking for things that used to occupy the mainstream in education. In this sense, we should ask what our education has lost. The core spirit of education has always existed in our cultural heritage, but it has been lost in the process of rapid transformation. What we need to do is to get it back. This proposition is not only related to the education system, but also to the reconstruction of a national spiritual home.