485 [Refreshing the Three Views of Parents]
The "Dialogue" column lasts for an hour. Although it is a CCTV 2 program, it often receives special attention because the guests invited in each episode are very good.
After Song Weiyang's episode was broadcast, it quickly caused heated discussion. It was not what he said before, but what he later said, but a high school student sneaked into the scene to lead the rhythm.
The host has a process outline, which will guide the topic, but there are still audiences who do not play according to common sense. For this situation, if it is nonsense, just cut it off, and if there is a highlight, then selectively keep it.
When the student's parent talked about his training of his son, a high school student couldn't stand it. He suddenly stood up with the microphone and said, "Hello, Auntie, I feel sad for your son. He has completely lost the fun of childhood and youth. Now the country advocates quality education. This is not quality education, you are very utilitarian exam-oriented education. If this continues, your son will become a nerd!"
The student’s parents immediately retorted: “I fully educate my children in the Harvard girl training model, this is quality education! You are still too young and don’t know the preciousness of your student days. Only reading is the only way out!”
"You are killing a child's free soul!" The high school student sternly retorted.
The student's parents sneered and turned their heads and said, "Boss Song, you are a person who loves learning. Come and tell this child what hard study means, what hard struggle means, and what education means to achieve the future!"
Song Weiyang was too lazy to pay attention to it and asked the host with a smile: "Can you skip this paragraph directly?"
The host said: "Yes, let's talk..."
"Why should I skip?" the high school student said angrily, "The current Chinese education model is to learn and take the exam, which is cramming and inhumane. As Han Han said in his article, we spend a lot of time studying mathematics now. How many can we use it after graduation? I think it is enough to learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and basic equations. Students who don't like mathematics can focus on other courses. Only those who like mathematics should learn more advanced courses. The college entrance examination should be divided into professional mathematics and ordinary mathematics, so that students can choose according to the major they want to apply for! Parent, I would like to ask you, you should have been away from school for more than ten years. Do you still remember the math knowledge you learned in the second and third grades of high school?"
"I... of course I remember!" said the student's parent.
The high school student immediately asked, "Then I will take the knowledge point of your first year of high school. What is the tangent? Don't you remember? Then I'll give you a hint, is the tangent, or tan?"
"Yes..." The parents of students immediately changed the topic, "I just didn't study well, and I'm just doing ordinary things now! If you don't study hard now, do you want to be the same as me in the future?"
The high school student retorted: "In this society, not everyone wants to be a mathematician. Most people do not need this knowledge. Why waste their time? It is better to learn something else. I said that those who are interested in science can choose higher-level mathematics courses on their own. If you are not interested, you will waste your time no matter how you study it!"
Well, this show has been led by high school students to go astray.
The director really couldn't stand it, so he directly gave the host an order: "Correction of the topic!"
The host smiled and asked Song Weiyang: "Or why don't you talk about education too?"
"Okay," Song Weiyang asked the students' parents, "What do you think of education in your eyes?"
Student parents said: "First is to impart knowledge, and second, to cultivate virtue."
Song Weiyang asked the high school student again: "Where are you?"
"I think education should be something that is interesting and useful to learn, not a cramming force," said the high school student.
Song Weiyang said: "I agree with Einstein's point of view, forgetting everything I learned in school, and the rest is education. Take the compulsory courses for primary and secondary school students as an example. Chinese language cultivates reading, writing and comprehension skills, and mathematics cultivates logical thinking. Even if you forget all the texts you memorized in middle school and don't remember all the mathematical knowledge points, the abilities cultivated by Chinese and mathematics will accompany you through your life. The core of education is people, not knowledge points, and knowledge points can be learned at any time, but it is difficult to make up for the cultivation of abilities in childhood and youth in adolescence."
Dr. Lu applauded: "I agree very much with this sentence."
The high school student said: "Does Mr. Song agree to the exam-oriented education?"
"Can you find other more appropriate ways?" Song Weiyang asked, "As for what you said, once it is implemented, there will be endless troubles. Let's talk about Japanese benzene. The best universities in Japanese benzene belong to the state and the competition is very fierce. Japanese benzene candidates are divided into three categories. The first category is fresh graduates, the second category is past graduates, and they are nicknamed ronin. The third category is that the university is not ideal, and they go back to take the college entrance examination and become a masked ronin. If these three types of people want to get into an ideal university, they must go to cram school, otherwise there will be no chance. In Japanese benzene, a student who has not studied cram school will definitely not be able to get into a national university."
The parents of students were very interested in this and asked, "Why? Is it the school teacher not responsible?"
Song Weiyang said: "Because Riben has been engaged in quality education in recent years, as this classmate said, most people are useless to learn advanced mathematics knowledge, so the school simply doesn't teach it. Therefore, the classroom knowledge of Riben School is very simple, and it ends very early. Students all go to participate in club activities. If you are interested in singing, you will learn and rehearse and sing; if you are interested in Go, you will go to other students to discuss it."
The high school students were envious: "Ribene's educational model is very advanced!"
Song Weiyang said: "The problem is that universities do not need such students, and the difficulty of the college entrance examination is not lower than that of China. Therefore, a student who wants to take the college entrance examination must give up club activities and spend money to study in private cram schools. A lot of the knowledge taught in cram schools is not available in school classrooms, but it is necessary for the college entrance examination. Don't you think there is any problem?"
"What's the problem?" asked the high school student.
Song Weiyang's tone increased: "If China does this, what should you do if you ask China's one billion farmers? Nowadays, many farmers have difficulty paying their children's tuition. Do you ask them to spend a lot of money to attend cram school? Doing this will block the path of most rural students to go to school and block the way for most rural children to turn over, and the social class will become solidified! A country with class solidification will not have the vitality to develop. Whoever dares to do this in China is the sinner of the Chinese nation!"
The high school student said speechlessly, "Why is that feasible?"
Song Weiyang smiled and said, "The degree of urbanization of Japanese benzene is very high. Moreover, Japanese benzene is a capitalist society. Capitalists are eager to solidify the class. They only need a small number of people to receive higher education. These people are the new generation of elites in society. Most people, working with peace of mind, belong to the perfect pyramid structure in the eyes of capitalists."
The parents of the students immediately smiled and said, "Boss Song made sense. China cannot do this. China should continue to carry out test-oriented education in order to cultivate more talents like Harvard girls!"
Song Weiyang immediately poured cold water on: "I said last year that Harvard girls are really nothing. With the grades I could only study at Fudan University, as long as I learned English well, I would give me tens of thousands of yuan to operate, and I would give you the full scholarship from Harvard every minute. Because in the 1990s, no one came to compete. The Harvard girl was able to succeed not because she studied well, but because she participated in exchange programs between Chinese and American schools. Once she succeeded, there would be more overseas study agencies this year and the competition became more intense. Your son wanted to replicate this model and needed to be richer, more flexible and more capable of operating. His academic performance was second, and he only needed to have better scores."
The student's parents were surprised and said, "It's okay to have better grades?"
Song Weiyang said: "A relatively excellent score is used to meet the basic standards for Harvard admission. As long as you cross this basic line, Harvard treats all students equally and does not care how much more or less you score. Especially those who take full marks, Harvard controls the admission rate of full marks every year, and deliberately cuts out many full marks students."
The parents of students asked quickly: "If they don't look at the scores, how can they choose students?"
Song Weiyang smiled and said, "Let me find someone to write a recommendation letter. Generally speaking, families with no background are most suitable for high school principals to write a recommendation letter. If you can find a principal at Tsinghua University to write a recommendation letter, your child's chances of being admitted to Harvard will increase by 10,000 times. If you only look for a principal at high school, then I'm sorry, your child will basically not be favored by Harvard. Unless your child is really powerful, and is so powerful that he is genius, you can find a sweeping aunt to write a recommendation letter."
"Recommendation letters are more important than academic performance?" Student parents were incredible.
"Yes, recommendation letters are very important," said Song Weiyang. "And there are skills to write recommendation letters. You can't just talk about how many awards you won. You have to be the first in the grade since childhood. This is useless. Harvard doesn't recognize it. You have to present facts, what volunteer activities you participated in, what talents you master, and what talent you have outstanding. Take me as an example. If I don't take the college entrance examination and I know Coca-Cola's Asia Pacific president, then I will ask the president to write a recommendation letter to me. As long as my grades exceed Harvard's passing line, I will be admitted 100%. That Harvard girl must have found a very important recommender at that time."
The students and parents were all depressed and muttered: "How can you rely on recommendations? Isn't this going to the back door?"
"Just go through the back door, all famous American schools can go through the back door," Song Weiyang smiled, "Do you have any connections to go through the back door? If not, you can try to apply for Harvard summer school and let your child stay at Harvard for a few weeks. Seize this opportunity to get a good relationship with Harvard professors. Maybe Harvard professors will write recommendation letters for their children. In advance, you need to have money, and it is very expensive to go to Harvard to study summer school."
The students' parents were completely refreshed and murmured: "It's up to money and relationships, this famous school is also going to be backdoor."
Song Weiyang said: "You also need your own children to be able to show off. Do you think you can be favored by Harvard professors after studying in the summer school? For ordinary Chinese families, let their children participate in charity activities and sports, master more talents and skills, and make the recommendation letters more exciting, and with excellent grades, you still have a little chance to go to famous American schools."
Two-thirds of these contents of discussion and education were cut off during the post-editing editing, but they still caused a sensation in public opinion after the broadcast.
Chapter completed!