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First, a declaration of nonsense#

When parents do not have educational certificates for their children, only marriage certificates.
There are no strict KPI assessments.
Education is based on conscience and awareness, along with personal experiences of failure and success, or relatives, friends, classmates, or social role models, or a mix of various experiences from books, etc.
The same goal is to get into 211 or 985 universities, study well to pass the college entrance examination, and excel in sports to qualify as a special talent. Those with money can find various ways to get into 211, such as studying abroad first and then taking the domestic 211 or 985 exams, which becomes much easier, though money is not so simple. This can be considered the international version of college entrance examination immigration, and there is also a domestic version, where going to places like Xinjiang makes it easier to get into 211 due to fewer candidates and less competition. Some even plan when to have children based on birth rates, missing peak periods to slightly reduce the difficulty of the narrow bridge. These various means are somewhat similar to divorcing to buy a house; they may not directly benefit, but isn't that the true purpose of education? Those without money tend to be lofty, and those not in power can criticize the issues more sharply (because their position determines their perspective, forgetting about the brain).

Teaching according to individual aptitude#

Teaching according to individual aptitude seems to be a paradox.
Mencius's mother moved three times, telling us the importance of school district housing. At most, it can be considered adapting to local conditions.
Many programmers come from families that did not program and had no opportunity to program. Yet they can program.
Some who are not born into programming, like Liu Qiangdong and Li Guoqing, can also succeed in internet businesses.
Good horses are common, but good trainers are rare, which also criticizes the idea of teaching according to individual aptitude.

Good teachers, no good trainers#

Without good teachers in childhood, without good friends in youth, without practical matters in adulthood, and without fame in old age—this is more accurate. A good teacher is sufficient.
A good teacher, in my understanding, is someone who cultivates habits and character.
Direction and interests—honestly, many people I know have neither direction nor interests.
They seem to have broad interests, knowing everything, but never actually playing basketball or soccer; they talk about sports stars as if they were giants, fully capable of replacing Huang Jianxiang as a commentator. Giants in language, but dwarfs in action.
To summarize in the words of a classmate, it’s about saying a few more words when chatting with others.
I am also confused; aside from making more money as a direction, doing nothing is just the routine, like a caged bird, wasting freedom for a bit of birdseed. Complete freedom is nice, but it can't be eaten.
Most people's activities are about making money, and their interests may have nothing to do with their work.
Most people do whatever makes money. Zhang Xuesong met a parent who hoped their child would apply for finance or computer science because they were doing well in school. Zhang Xuesong said that was good, but does your child have an interest? Later, he found out the child had no interest in making money and wanted to study physics at Harbin Institute of Technology.
Wei Shen comes from an educational family, but he has no interest in education, only in mathematics. The best teachers are those who help students find their interests or develop an interest in the courses they teach, right? But I believe most of Wei Shen's students probably don't think that way; they are likely more concerned about where they can earn a stable income.

My understanding of the essence of education#

What is the essence of education, especially compulsory education?
It is to produce talents suitable for the stable development of society and enterprises. To filter out those who appear smart and honest or those who have already mastered the ways to directly benefit.
Many children have numerous patents that turn out to be gifts from their grandparents. This is one of the ways.
To obey discipline and suppress one's personality. Doesn't the book 1984 say something similar? I haven't read it.
If you are too smart, too individualistic, and too opinionated, challenging teachers and superiors, unless you are a genius in an advertising company or run your own company, I doubt many companies would dare to hire you.
Cao Xueqin and Shi Nai'an wrote banned books, which are books of freedom. Now politics also needs free labor and the revolutionary needs of that time. The regime they were in indeed suppressed them.

Making money is making money, education is education?#

Academic corruption is also a failure of education, or it can be said that education has gone astray.
In politics, people think Hai Rui is a good official, but he couldn't survive in the officialdom; this is true in any dynasty.
Officials are appointed, not elected. How many times have you voted? The Soviet Union is a joke; you can look more into it.
The unity of knowledge and action is very difficult; education does not teach it. You praise Hai Rui's deeds and behaviors while simultaneously treating others to meals to get things done; what will the child learn?
Accountants do not cook the books; whether it is professional ethics or legal regulations, is there a company that exists with only one set of accounts?
There used to be, but perhaps it quickly went bankrupt.

Durability is a good design and educational outcome. However, in business, many designs are not durable, cannot increase external storage, cannot replace batteries, the low-temperature solder design of laptops, and some designs affecting the lifespan of rice cookers, Intel's CPU pin design. Why? Good education and design lead to low repurchase rates, causing companies to fail faster.

Constantly upgrading software systems—is it really helping you have a better experience?

Thinking of cloud storage throttling, broadly speaking, it hinders the efficient transmission of information and slows down national development.
But why does the country turn a blind eye? Just creating a youth version or something to gloss over it? Because there are taxes; if companies are not profitable, where does the tax revenue come from? So this is also where the contradiction lies.
While companies make money, they also educate you; normal download speeds are not normal; only by paying can you get normal speeds.

The meaning of "Mingde, Qinfeng, and Zhiyuzhishan" in universities lies in understanding the meaning, then committing crimes without any scruples, which is quite forced.

Some educators' viewpoints#

Confucius's school model has developed quite well to this day. Yi Zhongtian or someone mentioned Confucius's funeral school, applying what is learned. The current problem may be whether vocational and technical schools cultivate talents that enterprises will directly use. Should enterprises directly cultivate talents? This involves interests, power, policies, and various issues.
The case of Confucius also indirectly illustrates that ordinary education is meant to cultivate cogs for enterprises and society.

In terms of education, I am not a teacher, and my child is still young and has not attended Tsinghua or Peking University.
So, the above viewpoints are things I have seen and remembered, all related to money, which is rather vulgar.

Educators Cai Yuanpei and Tao Xingzhi, after the test of history, their viewpoints, from the perspective of the state machine, are still quite good, especially Cai Yuanpei's.

I resonate more with Tao Xingzhi's educational thought, although at first glance, his viewpoint seems to be labor reform, abbreviated as labor reform, which the last emperor also learned, with good results.

Researching, it seems Wang Yangming also had educational methods that can be referenced, compared to Cai Yuanpei and Tao Xingzhi.
In fact, Wang Yangming discovered long ago that much of education suppresses children's individuality, viewing children as prisoners and schools as prisons.

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1. Wang Yangming's thoughts on children's education
   The Ming Dynasty educator Wang Shouren placed great importance on children's education and proposed many insightful views on it.
   (1) He exposed and criticized the traditional children's education for ignoring the physical and mental characteristics of children, viewing them as "little adults," which is a fatal weakness. Traditional children's education suppresses children's individuality, viewing them as prisoners and schools as prisons.
   (2) He advocated that children's education should conform to children's nature. Education should adapt to children's age characteristics, respect children's interests, and treat them like young saplings, providing them with gentle care and encouragement.
   (3) Educational methods: He advocated using "induction," "guidance," and "irony" as methods of cultivation, replacing traditional methods of "supervision," "responsibility," and "punishment."
   (4) Educational content: Utilize the multifaceted roles of various subjects. Poetry, reading, and etiquette all have their unique roles and should be comprehensively applied.
   (5) Procedures: He advocated for a combination of movement and stillness, using both body and mind, carefully arranging courses so that students can receive moral education, learn knowledge, and exercise their bodies.
   (6) Teaching principles: He proposed "teaching according to individual limits," meaning teaching should be done according to one's abilities, progressing step by step, and teaching according to individual aptitude.
   Although Wang Shouren's fundamental purpose in children's education was to instill feudal ethics and morals, he began to advocate that education should conform to children's nature and actual acceptance abilities, allowing children to develop in moral, intellectual, physical, and aesthetic aspects, reflecting his naturalistic tendencies in educational thought.

How to exert effort in education?#

Education cannot be like a secretary in Pingdu, mobilizing the entire city's resources. Whether in terms of military, material, human, financial, or energy resources, the secretary's effort in educating adults was also significant, resulting in exposure and trending on social media at the time.
This also illustrates that education is not simply about having abundant resources.

Education that serves interests is not like shouting slogans: "To establish a heart for heaven and earth, to establish a destiny for the people, to inherit the teachings of the sages, and to open peace for all generations."
Of course, there are also those who speak without intention, but listeners take it to heart. Acting according to slogans is indeed impressive; I am in awe.

Wilde's original quote about "looking up at the stars while in the gutter" is: "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Human nature is inclined towards goodness; at the beginning of humanity, nature is inherently good.

Educating with heart, nurturing with love, being a ferry operator on the path of student growth—this is generally the title of an excellent teacher.
Only parents have a greater opportunity to use this phrase and action.
Let me tell another heartfelt story, but I won't write it down.