In the early days of reform and opening up, people began to learn English consciously in order to learn advanced technology and management experience from abroad. However, due to the warming up of English learning, some education and personnel departments began to get hot heads and set different levels of English tests in talent training and selection. Nowadays, English exams have completely become a tool for interest groups to make money, and destroying young people is their designed purpose. Students suffer greatly in the process of learning English. They have wasted a lot of time and neglected their normal studies, which has dealt a devastating blow to the quality of education in our country, and at the same time wasted the country's huge wealth of tens of billions every year. It's a disaster for the country and the people.
First, look at what English is.
Let's take a look at our great China people first. The national Chinese character literacy standard is 1500 characters, and science and engineering students can generally master 2000 Chinese characters. With these 2000 words, and then look them up in the dictionary, everyone can read books, newspapers and engage in scientific research. You can read some famous works fluently, such as A Dream of Red Mansions.
Look at English again. In the English world, you can't read a newspaper without 20,000 words, and you can't read a weekly without 30,000 words. Professionals in English-speaking countries generally knew 80,000 words when they graduated from university 10 years ago. The emergence of new things is always accompanied by the emergence of new English words, such as ROCKET and COMPUTER. , but Chinese is not needed. Just a machine that can "calculate" by using "fire" to drive "arrow"! But English can't be like this, nor can it rely on word formation, otherwise it will be "too long". For example, rockets will become "fire-driven arrows" and computers will become "computing machines". Too long text will reduce the readability of the article and the reader's understanding ability. Thus, English is a very backward and unscientific language. In western countries, this is the most difficult language to learn.
In America, it is good to read newspapers after graduating from high school. Therefore, American ideographic comics and comics are very developed. If you can read famous books, you can boast and think that you are of high quality. However, such people can only be regarded as primary school students in China, and they are considered as uneducated people. Because there are too many English words, it is normal to forget them easily. If you are interested in taking Shakespeare's original works to test the so-called English experts in China, it is definitely not possible. After the 9. 1 1 incident in the United States, many new words appeared, which even Americans themselves could not figure out.
At present, the English vocabulary has exceeded 500,000, and it is expected to exceed 6,543.8+0,000 in the middle of the next century. Therefore, it can be said that learning English well is endless. English exams can beat everyone, no matter whether you have studied English all your life or what English experts are. But then again, if it is useful in normal English communication, it is enough to master the word 1000-2000. Farmers in the United States generally do not exceed 2000 words. Important: English is just a tool for learning and communication. By mastering one or two thousand words, some common grammar, some English dialogues, learning to look up dictionaries and using computer translation software, everyone can happily master English, an important learning tool, in a relatively short period of time to serve future work and scientific research. Let's see how ignorant educational bureaucrats use English exams to bring disaster to the country and people.
Second, English is paramount, and the quality of teaching is getting worse.
Look at the present situation of our country. Whether you are engaged in traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, ancient Chinese, twenty-four histories, or a teacher, engineer, technician, editor, reporter, business manager or domestic trader, your professional ability is not important, nor is it important to improve your work performance. As long as you are promoted, evaluated for professional titles, promoted to middle school, went to college, took postgraduate exams, studied for a doctorate and so on. I can't learn English well, only two words. In short, you are not a talent if you can't "test English". What a sad conclusion. Under the influence of this ignorant concept of talent cultivation, coupled with China's entry into the WTO and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, perhaps there will never be such a spectacular scene in the world: a vast country with a population of 65.438+0.4 billion, in the 265.438+0 century, almost everyone is crazy about this language, as if learning English well would die for the party and the country. Because of ignorance, English has been pushed to the supreme position in universities, and students can only use all available time to learn English if they fail to pass CET-4 (some hot-headed universities require CET-6 to get their degrees). If you have passed CET-4, prepare for CET-6, prepare for postgraduate entrance examination, or prepare for TOEFL, GRE and IELTS.
English is too important to me, so I'm sorry for taking specialized courses because my time and energy are limited. As long as you can pass professional courses, you can pass make-up exams if you are unlucky. Graduation thesis and graduation design can only go through the motions. Colleges and universities, the cradle of talents in our country, have only trained a few more English words, which could have been easily solved by looking up the dictionary. Haha, ridiculous and pathetic! Because college students don't learn real knowledge in college, employment is more severe. Now they all go to school at their own expense. If you are the parents of students and pay so much money, that's what you have learned. what do you think?
As we all know, there are two main factors in learning a language, one is the external language environment, and the other is age. An American student, growing up, never leaves his mouth in English. Under such circumstances, even if he graduates from high school, he will read newspapers, even if he is of high level, and China students are in an unfavorable external language environment and age. If we want to reach this level, we will know how much energy and time our students need to spend. Due to the English test, a large number of students waste their time studying specialized courses, which makes the quality of university teaching in China go from bad to worse, and it is close to the lowest level of higher education in the world. Postgraduate training and doctoral training are also in English. For the postgraduate students, English has the function of one-vote veto, which has already become the premise of the postgraduate game.
Moreover, with more and more competitors, its difficulty is also rising. To be specific, it is useless for a candidate who applies for the major of modern and contemporary literature in China or even ancient literature in China, if English can't reach the so-called "national line". On the contrary, candidates with average majors and outstanding English scores often become the highlights of admission. Every year, after graduate students are admitted, teachers often sigh with regret: XXX major is excellent, but this time English is a little poor, and students can't be recruited. Even if a few lucky people are "pulled" in by the tutor when English is still one or two points away from the online level, it will take tens of thousands of yuan to make up for that one or two points. How can poor students who are heavily in debt concentrate on their studies? Students who want to recruit can't get in because their English can't keep up with the required level; However, students with strong English ability and superficial professional knowledge stand out, which is the embarrassment of too many China tutors. So, some pedantic old gentlemen complained: No need to recruit, just go to the English department and find two. Smart candidates were already taking advantage of their advantages long before the complaints of the old gentlemen were made.
Too many college and undergraduate graduates of English department have little or no knowledge of their major, so they squeeze in with the advantage of English major. As far as I can see, this situation is more common in doctoral enrollment. It seems to be a fashion for lecturers and associate professors in the English department of universities not to read Chinese for a day, and to take a doctor's degree in the Chinese department with a few books on history. They all passed the exam immediately, and even some Chinese majors scored only 50 points, but they stood out with their "strong" English major advantages, which really made those who struggled in the professional field envious, angry, sad and helpless. Ha ha, poor thing.
Third, if you don't understand the laws of education, talent selection is like a child's play, which is another "masterpiece" of educational bureaucrats. The Nobel Prize can only be told to China. Everyone knows that basic education in primary and secondary schools in the United States is very poor. Why are there so many Nobel Prize winners? While China is clean and harmonious, and attaches importance to education from top to bottom, and China people are diligent and intelligent, why can't a Nobel Prize winner be produced? What is the reason? The reason lies in the Ministry of Education, such educational bureaucrats simply don't understand the law of talent training. Many foreign research institutions' research on world-famous scientists shows that scientists' thinking level and creativity decrease with age.
Three quarters of scientists have made great achievements before the age of 35. As physicist Einstein once said: "If a person has not published scientific opinions at the age of 30, it will be difficult for him to make a difference in the scientific community all his life." You can calculate by backward deduction that only by learning the existing scientific knowledge well, paying attention to the cultivation of personal ability and being good at mobilizing the potential of personal learning and research can talents develop and stand out. After several years of special in-depth research, these outstanding talents happen to be the best age to become scientists. China University spent four golden years learning dumb English, that is, "China people don't understand, foreigners laugh their heads off". Missed the best opportunity for outstanding talents to stand out. Of course, the Nobel Prize can only say goodbye to the people of China.
You can only see the beautiful Nobel Prize in your dreams. Perhaps this is why Americans attach great importance to college education. Americans won't show you these experiences in English newspapers. What they can see from English newspapers and magazines is only some fragmentary knowledge. He won't write it for you. The country now advocates the development and innovation of science and technology, and the innovation must have nothing to do with English (in China, students of foreign languages departments have the best English, but the worst scientific knowledge. In addition, now everyone learns English only to find a good job or improve themselves, and has nothing to do with learning foreign advanced technology and management experience. They must rely on their own solid research to get it. Those who learn from others will always fall behind.
Let's take a look at the title evaluation. It's like a child's play. All universities have academic degree evaluation committee, and all doctoral and master's theses have to be reviewed and approved by academic degree evaluation committee. They are famous professors in various universities and experts in various disciplines. However, due to the distorted evaluation mechanism, they became all-round professors. Professors majoring in economics must read doctoral dissertations in computer science. What should they do if they don't understand? See if there is a note in their pockets. If there is no note, see what it looks like. The conclusion can be written at will, even if it is wrong, you don't want to read it. This is a secret, and there is no place to appeal. Under this mechanism, most students can only pass their papers through the back door, and so can professors. This is the senior talent selection mechanism in China. Originally, universities should be the most scientific and democratic places, but now such a talent selection system can select good talents, and I cried that day.
Ding Xueliang, a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, once cited an example to illustrate the position of China scholars in the international academic circles: "When I was studying in the United States, I heard that the heads of research centers of some famous universities on the east coast of the United States who have more academic exchanges with China often told their members (mostly visiting scholars and professors) that you don't need to do much when you come to us, but there is one thing that can help, that is, once professors and scholars from Chinese mainland come to give lectures, you can do it anyway. Why? Because the research center invited people to give lectures, some people sat down to listen to the good ones, and no one listened to the bad ones. It's just that mainland professors and scholars come to give lectures. Whether you want to listen or not, you have to come and help make up a number. In other words, compared with the whole East Asian higher education circle, the level of professors in China is the lowest or close to the lowest. At least western academic circles think so. "
It is said that learning English well can learn from foreign advanced, and that learning English well can learn from foreign advanced management experience and advanced scientific and technological knowledge, but they just don't learn some known advanced management experience, which only shows that these people know nothing about education, have no sense of responsibility and have no minimum professional ethics. According to statistics, the English education market has become a major industry in China. The annual output value is as high as tens of billions of RMB, accounting for 1% of the gross national product, which is equivalent to the annual output value of a relatively developed medium-sized city in China. There are hundreds of millions of learners. The composition of English education market includes many training schools and cram schools; Various exams and tests; There are thousands of English textbooks, reference books, dictionaries, various educational equipment and so on. In the English education market, the income of organizers of various exams is the most stable. They are all rich, and they are typical representatives of changing power into money. The annual examination fee, teaching materials and reference books add up to more than 4 million applicants in 200 yuan, which costs several billion yuan. The examination fees sponsored by foreign institutions such as TOEFL, GRE, GMAT and IELTS are much higher. The TOEFL examination fee is 800 yuan, 10***, and its income also reaches 80 million yuan. All kinds of training institutions (individuals) are also the protagonists of the education market. From tutoring in 0 yuan every hour1to advanced training of more than 20,000 yuan, all kinds of people aim at different target markets, and each shows his magic power to carve up the cake. An "New Oriental" English training school trains four or five students every year, with an annual teaching income of several hundred million. According to incomplete statistics, there are currently more than 3,000 foreign language training and education institutions in China, and the tuition fees range from several hundred yuan to several thousand yuan depending on the training content and curriculum arrangement. The average charge is from 20 yuan to 30 yuan per person per hour. Thousands of English textbooks and reference books. If the average price is 10 yuan/10,000 copies, it will reach10 billion every year, and it will definitely become the favorite book published by publishers.
Some people say that the best way to destroy a nation is to destroy its mother tongue.
What is the real reason why all of us are forced to learn English is worth thinking about.