I wonder if you remember high achiever Daniel Hu., a Chinese American who got a high score of 99.85 (close to full mark) in the ATAR examination of the new state college entrance examination last year.
Born to an ordinary Chinese immigrant family, when their parents moved to Australia in the early years, their parents had to give up to the hard work of the cleaners for reasons such as language problems, but Daniel`s father always insisted that he look up a dictionary three hours a day to help his son finish his homework. In the end, he helped his son, who had a mediocre start at school, achieve remarkable results.
The story of Daniel has caused a stir in the Chinese community: not only because Daniel`s story proves that this kind of thing can really happen in Australia, but that many people are starting to think:
From an early age to send their children out of the country, is it possible to achieve the same achievement as Daniel?
1. "as long as the child can go abroad to study, even if he works as a cleaner,"
In fact, whether to send children abroad is a common domestic middle-class anxiety.
A growing number of middle-class people, even in primary school, begin to figure out when they should be sent abroad. If so, when? What is the purpose of sending the children abroad?
Kan Kaili, director of the Information Research Institute of Beijing University of posts and Telecommunications, gave his own opinion on this issue.
Professor Lien stayed with his parents in the United States at the age of 3, caught up with sports after returning to China, and became the first public-funded student to stay in the United States after reform and opening-up. He received his doctorate at Stanford University. It can be said that Professor Kin is not only an expert in his field, but also has his own unique views on education at home and abroad.
Professor Lien tells the story of a friend around him: "should I send my child abroad?"
I have an early "returnee" friend, in the domestic company for more than ten years, and very successful. At last, however, he left China with his family.
I asked him why, and his answer was: for the children. `We `re not trying to make our kids a family in the future, even as a cleaner,`he said. But let him be a good man and a happy man.
This friend`s words, let Professor Xin can not help but think: why do parents send their children abroad, but do not need children to achieve great cause, just hope that the children feel at ease and happiness?
Can`t Chinese education really give children happiness? What is wrong with China`s education?
2. The natural thirst for knowledge is destroyed, and the core of education is broken
When I was in school, especially in primary and secondary schools, I cultivated students` curiosity about the truth, he said.
But as education becomes more utilitarian, this thirst for knowledge is destroyed.
What is Chinese education today? Go to a good primary school, is to enter a good middle school; a good middle school, is to test a good university. What do you want to go to a good college for? In order to find a good job, including earning more work and known as the "iron rice bowl" of work.
Learning has become a means of pursuing utility. The burden of schoolwork is also exhausting students, the natural thirst for knowledge and the fun of learning are fundamentally destroyed, and the core of education is broken.
This is another kind of scene in foreign countries.
Abroad, teachers can guide children`s desire for knowledge very well, and never because the children say "do not understand" performance impatience, but the patience to guide, finally let the children in the path of knowledge satisfaction, satisfaction and turn into motivation.
An interesting phenomenon in Western education is that the better the children, the more time they spend studying. School is not enough, after the class will also be targeted at the students of remedial classes, or go to the library to study on their own.
For example, Chinese ideological and political lessons generally teach children the difference between idealism and materialism, but they do not teach them to think. Why is idealism wrong?. By reading, debating, and thinking independently, you can come to a conclusion only if you think through it. I think these are the most valuable educational experiences.
Not only is this thirst for knowledge less and less on Chinese students, but even some children dare not even tell the truth, he found. Such a mentality, Chinese children want to have a normal mentality is difficult. What shall I do? I have to go abroad.
3. Is the school for teachers or students?
Professor Kan also found that in China, schools seem to serve teachers, including students, especially in universities.
Many graduate students in China call their mentors "bosses," some professors get projects, then assign tasks to students to do projects for themselves, and they "sit back and enjoy their success."
Some professors start their own companies, students sign in to work, but eventually the salary is not as good as interns, and even some professors do not have their own projects, they "rent" students out, students` pay is similar to that of contract workers.
And to the doctorate stage, there are even some of the mentor`s grandiose "selling education". For example, there are only more than 30,000 doctors a year in the United States. Now that the number of Chinese doctorates can reach 50,000 to 60,000 a year, how did this figure come about?.
How many "on-the-job doctorates" are there all over China? Many of them are bosses and executives of state-owned enterprises. Many of them do not come to class, but they need a degree to be able to add officials to the baron, which contributes to academic malaise.
Mentors are not stupid enough to take the doctorates` money and the professor will ask other students to teach, test, write papers, or simply "outsource" them, in order to maximize the benefits.
4. Send the child out of the country after he is in the exam
Finally, Professor Lien put forward his own idea: the best time to send a child out of the country is to send a child to study abroad after completing the middle school entrance examination.
Because by this time, he or she has come close to the Chinese culture and basic knowledge, and does not need to accept the torment of the college entrance examination, waste of youth.
More importantly, sending a child out of the country early can make it easier for the child to form a good value and become a frank person, rather than a two-sided, three-knife, right-handed person.
But the only worry is that it seems too late to send the child out of junior high school.
Once there was a friend who was still in the third grade of primary school and came back to say that the head teacher was going to have a birthday and asked his parents for money for gifts.
Parents surprised: is not just the head teacher, birthday as a greeting card, why still need to buy gifts?
The child can only tell his parents because the other children in the class do so. If the teacher does not buy gifts, then the teacher will look down on him, students will laugh at his stinginess.
This kind of utilitarian study, in fact, has already penetrated into all aspects of Chinese education, teachers are high above, students should have the desire for knowledge, curiosity and happy childhood has been suppressed.
This may be the reason why more and more middle-class people start to figure out when to send their children abroad when they are very young.
