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发表于 2014-1-9 16:25:29
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首先想说自己中文打字速度太慢, 所以那天在48楼我不得不用英文来写。作为一位从事教育工作的人, 今天我还想就一些网友对在48楼讨论从教育学的角度再说几句。对不起大家, 因为我发现自己打中文实在太慢,所以今天又得用英文来写。再次抱歉并欢迎大家批评!
Seemingly, some missed the point because the point is that schooling is not education. In the modern western education theory, schooling is also called the banking model of pedagogy (Paulo Freire, 1960), which has a primary goal of disabling students’ intellectual curiosity. Numerous academic studies, completed before early 1900s, have shown schooling can be used to achieve this end by force-feeding facts, by forcing memorization using exams, so that the ideology of the day can be securely put in place to ensure total obedience to the institutions. Alternatively, schooling is used to dumb us down in today’s lingo.
On the other hand, the Enlightenment has given us a completely different understanding and definition of what real education should be. Education should mean that each student can, actively and passionately, seek what he desires to learn, know and understand; it should satisfy his intellectual curiosities; it should encourage critical reasoning, as Kant succinctly put it, “Dare to use your own reason”, and ultimately learn how to live and how to die.
To many Enlightenment men, the real education is not about confirming what we already know. The real education is about proving ourselves wrong. It’s about taking us to a position where we have never been to before. Students must have burning desires for knowledge and discovery meanwhile keeping their skepticism. This is also the scientific methodology advocated by the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment Project had not only produced so many extraordinary thinkers, the founding fathers of so many today’s academic deciplines and sciences, but also it had given birth to today’s technology-driven postmodern world of ours.
Most of all can agree Einstein was a highly accomplished scientist of his time, in fact, a rare genius. Do we happen to know young Einstein hated schooling? Here is what he wrote about his odious schooling experience, and how the real education had profound influence on his later career:
School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn’t worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave. This was a Catholic School in Munich. I felt that my thirst for knowledge was being strangled by my teachers; grades were their only measurement. How can a teacher understand youth with such a system? … from the age of twelve I began to suspect authority and distrust teachers. I learned mostly at home, first from my uncle and then from a student who came to eat with us once a week. He would give me books on physics and astronomy. The more I read, the more puzzled I was by the order of the universe and the disorder of the human mind, by the scientists who didn’t agree on the how, the when, or the why of creation. Then one day this student brought me Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Reading Kant, I began to suspect everything I was taught.
- Albert Einstein: A guide for the perplexed
What might surprise some of us is that Einstein was not alone in his view. So many other Nobel Prize winners shared the same recollections of their own resentment, http://learninfreedom.org/Nobel_hates_school.html
What really matters to the wise is that each of us only gets to live once in this life (even if some might have a narrative for afterlife), no matter how much power and wealth each of us can ultimately accumulate in life, it becomes almost philosophically critical for a young person, early on, to have ambition and understanding of what he does really want out of his life. In other words, a sense of purpose in life. What really matters is this simple question: when asked the end of his life journey, whether or not if he can, quickly, wholeheartedly, adamantly, answer that he’d live the very same life again, without any hesitation.
What I am talking here is not about data. What I am talking here is not about information. What I am talking here is about wisdom. Now, as an ardent educator, I want to ask an authentic question: how can a young person develop a burning ambition of his or her own sooner? After all, we either learn our own way towards writing our own script in life, or we unwittingly become an actor in someone else’s script.
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发表于 2014-1-9 21:22:40