Social competition is talent competition, talent competition is IQ competition, IQ competition is knowledge competition, knowledge competition is Chinese competition, and Chinese competition is literacy competition.
There is a TV series describing Cang Xie's characterization, which is earth-shattering and makes people cry. It is said that with words, there are no secrets in the world, because with words, human beings can explore any truth in the universe. Such as astronomy, geography, human relations, science, mathematics, physics, chemistry and so on. What knowledge is not based on literacy, otherwise you won't be on the hall of science.
Liu Bin, governor of the Ministry of Education, quoted the topic "Life begins with smart literacy" in his opening speech at the national primary school literacy experience exchange meeting held by the Ministry of Education, which fully explained the importance of literacy in basic education.
The early or late literacy directly affects the development of people's IQ. A study in Japan from 1967 shows that the IQ of children who start learning some Chinese characters at the age of 5 can reach 95; The number of people who start studying at the age of 4 can reach120; Those who start learning at the age of 3 can reach130 (below 80 is stupid, and above 120 is smart).
From the perspective of the day after tomorrow, the earlier children learn Chinese characters and read books, the faster they accumulate knowledge, the deeper they understand things, and the faster their socialization process, which is also the reason why the IQ of their peers is high or low.
According to the provisions of the syllabus, primary school graduates can only learn 2500 words to meet the requirements of literacy and reading. If a child can know 4000 Chinese characters at the age of 6, it will be very different.
Don't think this is a fantasy. Western developed countries have long regarded this as the top priority of national education. The educational goal mentioned by the United States in 1997 State of the Union address: let children enter reading and writing at the age of 8, and surf the Internet at the age of 12. On the second working day after taking the oath of office, Bush put forward the federal government's education reform plan of "No Child Left Behind" and proposed to solve the reading problem of children at the age of seven. In other words, in the second grade of primary school, we can reach the level that only the sixth grade can reach. The United States entered school at the age of five, and the second grade was seven. But in China, at the age of seven, we just started to learn Chinese characters. Is this a fundamental talent competition, and is this competition manifested in literacy?
In fact, our government also attaches great importance to children's literacy. In 2002, the relevant national ministries and commissions and the China Children's Project Office listed children's literacy as the key project of children's project in China. In April of the same year, a tool for children's professional quality passed the acceptance of experimental teaching and was solemnly recommended to the society by China Early Childhood Education Research Center. This is a teaching aid invented by Ms. Liu Xiaomei of Beijing Language Institute, which guides children's learning with interest and develops their analogical thinking and associative thinking in learning. The children sang children's songs and played games, and learned Chinese characters easily in a short time, so that every preschool child could learn to read.