Re: education experts: the crisis of values is the fundamental crisis of Chinese education.
all on the reform of the college entrance examination"
China News Weekly: these issues have been discussed for many years, and many places are also advocating quality education. However, there is a view that basic education can not get rid of the current cycle as long as the current college entrance examination system does not reform. Do you agree with this view?
Ye Lan: I do not think that the hope of basic education reform should be placed on the reform of the college entrance examination. I have a long time to criticize "the baton of the college entrance examination". It seems that all the problems in basic education can be attributed to "the baton of the college entrance examination", which can explain everything or change quickly. The essence of this judgment is to change the whole process of education and teaching by means of "export". The control of export and the development of "process" are two things that can not be replaced each other.
the reform of the national college entrance examination, whether in the form of selection or appraisal, is to pass the test. You can not turn the responsibility of education reform that teachers should undertake to reform the way and method of college entrance examination. There are two different groups of subjects who undertake the reform of the college entrance examination and the reform of primary and secondary education. Although these two things are related, their respective responsibilities cannot be replaced.
there are many factors that affect the whole process of education. So I said, we might have caught the wrong source. Children grow from small to large for more than ten years. When children enter primary school, they are far away from the national college entrance examination. If we emphasize the reform of the college entrance examination in order to reform basic education, what will this statement bring? Primary and secondary school teachers and principals can say: you have not changed the college entrance examination, I will not be able to reform your college entrance examination, so I can not reform! The consequence is the undertaker of primary and middle school education responsibility. It can not focus on the study and responsibility of a long process of education and change, and put hope on others, and find good reasons for no reform.
I'm not saying that the college entrance examination should not be changed. Change! However, the hope of basic education reform can not be placed on the reform of the college entrance examination. This may be one of the reasons why quality education has not made much progress in the past more than 20 years.
China Newsweek: so, what do you think the basic education reform should start with?
Ye Lan: where is the starting point for China's education reform? As the starting point of the education reform, the existing reform programs, or the compilation of new curriculum and new teaching materials, or the change of teaching strategies and methods, or the promotion of students' achievements, or the training of new teachers and new principals, are the starting points of the educational reform. But I think that values are the starting point of all education and teaching reform, the crisis of values, the fundamental crisis of Chinese education, and the transformation of education should begin with the transformation of values.
for more than thirty years, my team and I have been committed to the research of "new basic education", which is an educational reform based on the overall transformation of schools. Its "new", first of all new in the "values". We propose to promote the development of students' life as the most fundamental educational values.
the value of promoting the development of life is the basic value of education. Education has the significance of improving the quality of life and enriching people's spiritual life, and has the value of developing life potential and improving the needs of development. The process of education is the process of making the spiritual energy of human life, through the activities of teaching and learning, between teachers and students and between students and the generation of new spiritual energy.
teachers and students actively and actively participate in various school practices are the prerequisites for schools to realize the above values. The "new basic education" is to return the class to the students to give the class a vitality; give the class back to the students, make the class full of the breath of growth, give the creation back to the teacher, make the education full of the challenge of wisdom, give the initiative of the spiritual development back to the students, and make the school full of Bob.