On July 12, at the Second Science Education Forum held by the Faculty of Chinese Academy of Sciences, a question raised by Professor Tsinghua University and Academician Zhu Bangfen of Chinese Academy of Sciences made the experts and scholars present think deeply.

He asked: "Over the years, we have taken many measures to reduce the burden on students. The central link is to reduce the teaching content and class hours, among which science courses such as physics in ordinary high schools bear the brunt. However, please think about it and compare your dolls at school with those now. Whose burden is heavier? "

Zhu Bangfen pointed out: "The most important role of physics education in senior high school is to cultivate students' scientific literacy that will affect their lives, which is extremely important for improving the scientific literacy of the whole people and building an innovative country. It is wrong to think that high school science teaching is only useful for future scientists or engineers.

Therefore, we must reverse the weakening trend of science education in middle schools. "Zhu Bangfen's point of view has been endorsed by experts and scholars attending the meeting. We analyzed the misunderstandings in senior high school science education and put forward some suggestions.

Reduce the difficulty of the course, reduce the teaching content and reduce the burden.

Zhu Bangfen said that at present, the competition of "not losing at the starting line" is becoming more and more fierce, and some students even apply for kindergartens in advance, but after repeatedly advocating "reducing the burden", the actual study time of students has not decreased. A few days ago, he went to some middle schools in Zhejiang Province for investigation. A senior two student told him that he attended a week-long cram school, the content of which was to do the same topic over and over again. "I felt sick when I saw such a topic later."

Students spend a lot of study time on "brushing questions" and memorizing words, which makes Zhu Bangfen particularly worried. "The path to high scores depends more on students' carefulness, diligence and a large number of mock exams. Senior three has been reviewing all year, which makes many students who have a strong interest in science run out of enthusiasm and have a feeling of weariness. This kind of emotion may affect the university, postgraduate stage, and even continue to the working stage, which will have a long-term negative impact on the development of creativity and imagination of China students. "