In the world, the proportion of Jews among Nobel Prize winners is the highest; People who have epoch-making influence in the history of human development, such as philosopher Marx and physicist Einstein, are all Jews. Is this just an accident? Let me look at a set of data: Jews read 60 books and newspapers on average every year, while China only reads 5 books on average every year. This shows that Jews have taken the lead in absorbing humanistic knowledge. Therefore, Professor Zhu Yongxin puts cultivating students' good reading habits, enriching students' humanistic knowledge and improving students' humanistic quality in the first place in his concept of "new education". This reminds me of a long-standing saying: a scholar knows the world only when he goes out. Of course, scholars are men of insight. Compared with ordinary people, he naturally reads more books, has richer sources of information and has a deeper analysis of things, so he knows the world.
With the development of the times, the scope of reading is not limited to traditional books, newspapers and periodicals, but also includes the reading of internet and film and television materials. It should be said that the sources of reading information are more, faster and richer than before. But now the actual situation of students has many unsatisfactory places. For example, many middle schools do not offer reading classes or arrange reading time, and even if they do, they are often used for other purposes for "various reasons"; Some teachers will regard books that students read in their spare time that have nothing to do with the content of the textbook as "forbidden books" and explicitly prohibit them. Last year, I made a survey about this: among the 49 students in my class, 3 students can't read and watch TV, extracurricular books, surf the Internet and other extracurricular knowledge even in winter and summer vacations, 5 students can't read extracurricular knowledge on normal school days, 17 students only have free reading time on Saturday or Sunday, and the proportion of students interested in this aspect is 100%.
It can be seen that the key to cultivating students' good reading habits lies not in students, but in schools, teachers and parents. But I think the crux of the problem for schools, teachers and parents is that students' reading extracurricular knowledge will occupy students' normal study time, which will lead to a decline in their grades, thus damaging their respective interests. It is true that in a short period of time, spending a lot of time studying and repeatedly training textbook knowledge to cope with the exam has an immediate effect on improving grades, but this effect is at the expense of cultivating students' good habits. High scores can only make people feel excited for a short time, but good behavior habits can benefit people for life. Learning textbook knowledge is learning, and reading extracurricular knowledge is also learning. Comparatively speaking, the content of extracurricular knowledge is richer, which is conducive to broadening students' horizons, cultivating students' ability to analyze problems and improving their humanistic quality. Therefore, changing the ideas of schools, teachers and parents is the primary problem to cultivate students' reading habits. When the ideological problems are solved, the rest of the work will be solved.
Saint Amethyst said, "The beginning of life is good in essence. Sex is similar and learning is far away. " It means that there is not much difference between people when they are born. It is acquired habits that cause differences in personality and quality between people. It can be seen that the importance of habit formation. Some mothers will say, the baby is still young, what can I ask him? I can't bear to let the baby suffer a little injustice. This idea is representative to some extent. Especially now, every family has only one child. Accommodate if you can, and satisfy if you can. Babies educated in this way are often self-centered, fragile and have many bad habits.
Success comes from good habits. Once upon a time, there was a man who made a strong net. He put the net cloth on the branch and hid it in the shelter. Soon a chubby bird hit the net. He thought, it is the net in the middle that catches the bird. It seems that only this mesh is useful. So he cut off all the other nets, leaving only this net, and then spread it on the branches, hiding aside every day and waiting for the birds to get into the net. Can he catch the bird again? The result can be imagined. Learning is like weaving a net, and exams are like catching birds. These factors, such as ambitious learning goals, good study habits, strong learning will, flexible learning methods and so on. Weave a big and strong net. Only by wearing this net can you catch a bird. If you foolishly think that it is useful to catch a "bird" directly, you will not catch a "bird" in the end.
Let's talk about the mid-term exam that just ended. It is not difficult to find that those students with excellent grades are often students who are self-conscious and good at thinking. Many students have excellent academic performance, not because of "chasing stocks", but because of good study habits. From the test paper, we found that students who did poorly in the exam generally had such problems: First, they scribbled, did not pay attention to the format, did not use a ruler, were not aligned, did not clean up, and each line was written up and down, even while dancing; Second, there are obvious typos and white characters, especially in composition. Because we can't use words accurately, words often don't connect with sentences, and sentences don't connect with texts. There are still some students, because their study habits are not well developed, which makes their efforts and gains disproportionate. Many things seem to be clear and understandable, but because they are inaccurate, uncertain and specious, their application is often unsatisfactory, unsatisfactory or even slightly different.
Statistics of teaching research at home and abroad show that for most students, 20% of learning quality is related to intelligence factors, and 80% is related to non-intelligence factors (habits play an important role). Let's look at an example. /kloc-Zhou Feng, a young college student who entered HKUST at the age of 0/3, thinks that the secret of his success is to develop good study habits from an early age. Zhou Feng knows Chinese characters and remembers English words. Every day, there are 10 words, even when visiting relatives and friends. In this way, more than 3,000 Chinese characters and more than 3,000 English words were memorized in one year. This is his quantitative study habit. Zhou Feng concentrates on his study when he is studying, and plays easily when he should play. He has a strong consciousness and never needs to be reminded, let alone forced. He listened to English radio to learn English, and turned on the radio on time as soon as he arrived. This is his regular study habit. Zhou Feng was always absorbed in his research, his thoughts never deserted, and his spirit declined slightly, so he made an immediate adjustment. This is his single-minded study habit.
The actions of countless successful people, such as Zhou Feng, confirm Bacon's words: "Habit is really a tenacious and great force that can dominate life." Therefore, while we are looking for and correcting problems, it is more important to develop good study habits, which is more important than temporary exam results. It is not terrible that the exam results are not satisfactory for a while. We can check for leaks and fill gaps, and we can remedy them in time. However, bad study habits will affect people's learning effect for a long time, and even affect people's life development.
The reasons why people like reading newspapers:
(1) There are earth-shattering news and thrilling stories in the newspaper.
(2) There are all kinds of news and knowledge in newspapers.
(3) Newspapers are full of new people, new things and new technologies.
How to read newspapers:
(1) Browse first, and then choose what you like to read intensively.
(2) Pay attention to civilization.
(3) It is best to wash your hands after reading to avoid ink stains.
What are the advantages of reading newspapers often?
It is not only interesting, but also broadens our horizons. Zhi Tao lost his temperament and became a mentor to millions of people.
Methods: When we get the newspaper, we can browse the news and main headlines first, and then choose the content we are interested in and read it carefully.
Note: you should also pay attention to civilization when reading newspapers. If you read the newspaper of a group or others, you should feel that there are still people to read after reading it, so you should tidy it up a little and put it somewhere. In addition, it is best to wash your hands after reading to avoid being polluted by ink dirt.