Relying on books will stifle children's creativity. How to train children well is a question that many parents think about. Younger babies don't have to worry about this problem for the time being. Children's personality development has a lot to do with their parents. Every parent is worried about their children's education. Sharing books will stifle children's creativity.
Relying on books will stifle children's creativity. 1 When it comes to writing a composition, it will give many children a headache. Why do you have a headache? Because there is nothing to write about. Why is there nothing to write about? In the final analysis, children are not creative, and children can't write without writing.
Children have no life of their own, no language expression of their own. Going to school depends on books and teachers. You can learn what you teach, but you can't learn without teaching. How can such passive learning be creative?
Children can only write when they have experience, which can prevent counterfeiting and fabrication. At home, I have seen media reports several times that there are lies in the composition of the college entrance examination, such as making up stories about how to overcome difficulties, losing a leg in an accident or losing a mother since childhood. When we feel sad about this phenomenon, perhaps we should reflect on what kind of education children have received.
Do we encourage children to tell the truth and write stories at school and at home? Are parents and teachers consistent in their words and deeds? We all understand the dangers of exaggerating, covering up and fabricating facts, not only for ourselves, but also for others, the interests of the group and the country. If we can cultivate children's portraits from an early age and cultivate their honest and serious attitude, it will also help to cultivate their scientific spirit of pursuing and persisting in truth.
Waldorf school not only lets students write their own texts, but also matches them with colors and pictures. For example, after learning to make bread, two students cooperate. One student writes the process of making bread, and the other student draws the process of making bread. Such illustrations are displayed in the classroom, and everyone can learn from each other. Also, by writing texts based on personal experience, they can learn the steps of doing things and the order of expression.
On the other hand, although Waldorf School has no textbooks, it attaches great importance to the training of speaking and reading. Half an hour every morning, children's oral ability is cultivated mainly through nursery rhymes, tongue twisters and poetry recitation. In the fourth grade, I have to perform drama on the school stage every year. From the first grade of primary school, every classroom has a book corner. In some Waldorf schools, the first book read by first-year students is a story book made by the teacher himself.
Holding handmade books, children not only feel the teacher's love, but also know how to cherish and care for books. I saw senior two students reading in groups in the classroom at McHo school, and the teacher recorded each student's reading progress. The premise of learning from books is not to stifle your creativity.
Write your own textbooks.
The lecturer in Class One, Grade Three, McHo Primary School is Mr WilliamForward. One morning, I listened to his class in the classroom.
In Chinese class, Mr. Forward first helps students remember the process of washing wool last Friday. The teacher asked questions step by step, "What to do first?" "What's that smell?" "What changes have been observed in the color of water?" Wait, students are free to answer, some are right and some are wrong. It is often that several students scramble to answer without raising their hands. After finishing, the general process is four steps.
The first step is to pull the wool away by hand to make it fluffy. At this time, your hands are oily, stained with sheep oil, and you can still smell the smell of mutton. Step 2, rinse with hot water under the faucet. The washed water was muddy yellow at first, and then turned into clear water, when the wool turned white; Step 3, shake off the washed wool and put it on the table to dry; Step four, put the dried wool away and put it in your pocket for later use. In the process of recalling and retelling, the teacher wrote down some new words or keywords on the blackboard. Finally, the teacher writes a short article about cleaning wool, and the students copy it in their exercise books. This is their own "text".
One of the educational characteristics of Waldorf School is to write "texts" by yourself. They don't need any ready-made teaching materials, but write them themselves. The content of this article is related to students' direct experience. About two-thirds of primary school students' texts are written by teachers, and about one-third are written by students themselves. Later, with the growth of age, the proportion of texts written by students themselves is increasing.
Of course, the texts written by teachers or students are lower than those written in regular textbooks, but no matter how good the articles in books are, they are always written by others and have little connection with their own lives. Although the texts written by teachers or students are not so perfect, they all come from real experiences and inner feelings. Self-writing in Waldorf education, that is, writing exercises, with the help of teachers, lays the foundation for writing articles in the future.
A few years ago, I met a fourth-grade parent. She proudly told me that her daughter recited a model essay describing the scenery all year round, and she could cope with the composition exam no matter which season she got. What impressed me deeply was that her daughter recited the four seasons from books instead of writing her own feelings. Under the pressure of exam-oriented education, children live in the room for a long time, and even have no time or need to feel the changes of nature all year round. Parents and teachers only care about how to write standard high-scoring compositions.
A friend of mine is a liberal arts professor in a university. A few years ago, my son, who was in the third grade of primary school, wrote a composition entitled "My Little Handkerchief" according to the teacher's request. Both he and his wife thought the article was well written, but the teacher criticized it as not up to the standard of composition. I think certain writing requirements are necessary, but is it too early to ask for writing standards for children aged eight or nine? For students below 12, I think the most important thing is to help children learn to observe things, experience life and nature, and encourage them to express their true feelings, rather than setting standards for them.
A girl in the community is two years older than my daughter. After reading her daughter's composition, she said, "I don't know why every time I write a composition, all the sentences in the composition book are used up, and I can't get rid of it." There are all kinds of composition readers in the bookstore, and parents can't wait to buy one, but their children can't find their own language expression when they read too many standard compositions.
Instead, it is better to buy less composition books, take children to nature more, give them more time to play, participate in homework more, and communicate with classmates more. I believe they will find their own way of speaking. I think one of the purposes of family education or school education should be to let students learn how to express themselves instead of repeating what others say.
To improve children's creativity, we should give them more opportunities to observe and learn, and let them have rich experience instead of relying on books.
Relying on books will stifle children's creativity. 2. continue to preach.
In view of the lofty aspirations of many of our parents, many children can't escape the fate of "early education" when they are born, not to mention the music and language that children have been influenced since they were born; When children are still ignorant, Tang poetry, Song lyrics, literacy, music, painting, arithmetic, foreign languages, dance and Go take turns ... Under heavy pressure, children's hearts and time are basically occupied by our consciousness of "wishing children success".
It is difficult for parents to restrain their "good teaching" and not miss any opportunity to preach. For example, when a child loses his temper, we will tell the child the disadvantages of losing his temper; What children want to do, we can instantly cite more than ten reasons not to do; When the child tries to use electrical appliances, we immediately come over and tell him how to operate them; What problems children encounter, many people solve them directly, and basically don't give them a chance to try. ...
We rarely have such a mother on a parent-child trip every few years. From the time the child woke up, the mother began to keep talking, telling the child to do this thing and that thing. If children have nothing to do, they will start asking questions: "Where are we going to travel?" "Is the scenery outside beautiful?" Don't stop until the child is tired and wants to sleep. But the child's performance did not satisfy the mother. She always feels that her children are too self-disciplined, too opinionated and too dependent on others ... She is full of complaints, but she doesn't realize that this is directly related to her education.
Separate play from study.
Grandpa: I grew up playing with stones and clods when I was a child. I climb trees, dig nests, fish and shrimp in the water, and play with my body.
Dad: At that time, we went to kindergarten, with a gun for boys and a doll for girls, skipping rope and playing house to develop our intelligence.
Me: I go to kindergarten with my schoolbag on my back, and I carry seven or eight endless books every day. After four years of kindergarten, I went to a big class in a blink of an eye. I don't know how to sing a song and play a game, but there are countless literacy classes, foreign language classes, sketchpad classes, Montessori classes, advanced classes, super-long classes and art classes. ...
Speaking of playing, it seems that children nowadays can only think of online games.
Who deprived the children of their right to play? Let's take a look at the index: the schoolwork is too heavy, the game starts from the age of zero, and all kinds of make-up classes, children are not in the mood and have no time to play; Children are fascinated by utilitarian development and lose interest in "playing", and their real interest has deteriorated a lot, distorting into adults who give up with tears and heavy burdens. ...
When all children's learning content and personal time are firmly controlled by us, the brain will only have the word "execution" mechanically, let alone intellectual development.
We have been thanklessly doing something wrong: separating play from study.
The more you talk, the less you remember.
The reason why we take the trouble to preach is because in our concept, children are still young and ignorant, and parents need to tell them the truth. However, we often find that after all the reasons are said, children go their separate ways. Is there a problem with the child's understanding ability, or is the child's memory getting worse and worse? We never thought:
Children's memory ability is limited. In fact, most children can't remember the truth we told them. If children are expected to grow their knowledge and ability by memory, how can they surpass their predecessors? Have we cultivated children's ability to surpass their predecessors?
Secondly, everything we tell our children is not necessarily correct. We tend to exaggerate the consequences of not doing what adults ask. For example, if you eat too much sugar, your teeth will fall out, which will increase your child's distrust. Once children find that what adults say is incorrect, they will be even more reluctant to listen to what adults say, which in turn forces us to nag more.