Why do you forget the feeling of working hard?

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"if you can't learn to die, then learn to die."

in the third year of senior high school, my headteacher hung the banner with this sentence on the blackboard at the back of the classroom. At that time, we wanted to tear out the book page by page and eat it in big mouthfuls, if it could deepen our memory.

A younger sister said to me this before: "especially when you go to college, you are not decadent, and you try your best to do something, but you always lack something." Sometimes I feel that I am not working hard enough, but I will look back and think about why I have to work so hard. It feels like I'm used to exam-oriented education, and it's like an excuse. "

she seemed a little sad when she said this because she felt that her freshman year was not as full as her junior year.

I looked at the top ten posts in her moments and found that none of them could tell me what she was doing. Her circle of friends, like many of my Wechat friends, contains only some information that doesn't make sense to others (maybe just to me) except for photos taken while eating and drinking. I met this younger sister when I was in high school. She is indeed a very diligent person and has always been at the top of her class.

but maybe, as she said, she was "used to exam-oriented education", so she lost the direction of her efforts after the college entrance examination. Before going to college, we were constrained to have only one goal under the examination-oriented education, that is, to "get higher scores." our early reading is earlier, evening studies are extended, lunch breaks are shortened, and a series of measures such as excluding physical education are all to "get higher scores." as the slogan says, you can't stop learning until you die.

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We don't think about what we're going to do in the future, nor do we know what we can do. We think we like music, but we find that what we like is singing in front of the person we like; we think we like games, but we find that we just don't want to be abandoned by the stream; we think we like painting, but we can't pick up the paintbrush after the college entrance examination.

BBC has released a documentary called "are our children strong enough?" -Chinese-style schools.

A British school has invited five Chinese teachers.

ask them to take 50 British middle school students between the ages of 13 and 14.

ask them to use the most Chinese-style education to teach these students for 4 weeks.

then four weeks later, ask third-party independent institutions to compare with students under the British education system to see which country's education style students do better.

(what the Chinese teacher said in the first class)

and the result of the first episode was, of course, as expected. British high school students did everything they wanted to do, openly contradicting the teacher, deliberately playing tricks in class, and saying to the teacher, "you can't say that we are more stupid than others. That's too disrespectful." And Chinese teachers also explained the reasons for the differences between Chinese and British students from their point of view:

"Britain is a welfare state, and if you don't work, you can still live on the benefits provided by the government. But not necessarily in China, China's competition is too big, if you do not study hard, you will not be able to support your family, a good university has become their only way out. So Chinese students try their best to cooperate with their teachers and keep working hard. But in the UK, it is the teacher who cooperates with the students, and the classroom is dominated by students. "

Chinese teachers show two inviolable principles in their documentaries, one is "discipline must be maintained in class" ("no question" in class), and the other is "competition in everything" (everyone runs together on time, rather than grouping according to ability, as British schools do).

We have long been familiar with these two principles, and no one will question their reasonableness. We wear glasses, bow our heads and listen to the teacher's commands. Copy the white chalk words on the blackboard into the notebook that we regard as treasures.

Chinese education simplifies everything to scores, which judge a person's ability by his or her scores. The ability of logical thinking is reflected in filling in the blanks in mathematics, the ability of spatial imagination is reflected in geometric questions, and memory is determined by reciting questions. They even measure their writing ability by the template of the composition with full marks in the college entrance examination. As a result, I often receive manuscripts that cannot be edited and pushed at all, because they use the same set of college entrance examination essays to write essays.

when they go to college, smart people find that they can jump out of the "rules" laid down by Chinese education, so they start to learn what they are interested in, learn PS, AI, programming languages, practice pens and draw pictures. But don't forget that there are a large group of people who are confused by exam-oriented education. they are used to reaching for their clothes and opening their mouths, and even their dreams have to be "stolen" from movies or chicken soup. when no one set a "goal" for them, they muddled their way through life, and they didn't wake up until they were about to graduate, but it was already too late.

I remember my friend said that when she was tutoring, she met a junior high school student who had been studying in Donghua since kindergarten. When my friend asked him to memorize words, he said:

"I don't want to memorize words. Can you punish me for copying? This is how I remember words. "

so why do you forget the feeling of trying?

because you never try to work for what you like, you just run desperately to the destination set for you in the best years, and then cry and say, "I want to do it again."

it's easy to judge whether a person is doing what he likes. You just click on his profile picture and check his circle of friends. I know a photographer who has a photo attached to all his moments, but he doesn't. One is a selfie, and there is a brother who is a designer. Although there is a selfie, the rest are his works.

that's why I asked the disorganized editor to forward my article. If you don't like what you write, how can you ask others to like it?