At present, all kinds of "education" are constantly mentioned, and there are basic education, quality education, innovative education, through education, general education, future education and so on.The core problem is that education is too complex, and we grasp one of the key contents or features of the education system and conduct in-depth research.In natural evolution, this phenomenon can be called the giraffe phenomenon.
Giraffes have long necks, which on the one hand can be thought of as a result of adaptation to evolution, which allows them to eat higher leaves and form their own niche.However, on the other hand, giraffes can also be considered to have entered an evolutionary misunderstanding.Because the vagus nerve in the giraffe's neck is also stretched, the giraffe eventually loses its vocal function.We can foresee that the fate of the giraffe will not be smooth in the future.
Any one-sided emphasis on a particular function in the system will eventually run into major problems.
Innovative education, for example.Innovation is a result of education, but it is not a single goal pursued by education.We can understand the education system as a football team.Innovative education, a component similar to a striker, is one of the best ways to score.However, if a football school only trains strikers, or a football team uses strikers, it will surely become a joke in the football world.At least there is no such thing as football on Earth.The reason is that a football team needs the support of different teammates, such as forwards, middle points, and rear positions, through systematic cooperation, formation changes, etc., to adapt to different opponents, while highlighting the characteristics of their teams.
But why is there such a misunderstanding in the education system?Is innovation the primary goal of the school?This is equivalent to a football school that trains only strikers.
Do we need that much innovation?
If a company or a unit is full of innovative talents, it will be a mess, and the result will be the cooperation of swans, Barracuda and Shrimp, everyone has different directions, have their own ideas, can not pull the car.
In mathematics, there is a very scary phenomenon of "probability differentiation."This concept was also mentioned in my previous article.Bringing 100 truly innovative people together for training will naturally lead to some continuing innovation, and a significant proportion will become mediocre people.Therefore, large-scale special training will cause a lot of waste of talent.
For example, in future education, many experts and literature make "butterfly effect" predictions based on the one-way indicator of future technological changes.People are afraid of the future.At present, many "education experts" who predict the future have an impetuous heart.Basically, these experts did not really combine the ideas of science and engineering and literature, or use liberal arts thinking to understand the "innovation" of science and engineering, in fact, laymen.Either science and engineering experts cannot absorb the nutrients of liberal arts and use simple science and engineering reasoning to predict complex educational systems.
When it comes to future education, we also need to think deeply about the drawbacks of its thinking mode.Thinking about the future needs to be incorporated into the framework of an existing system of human knowledge, economy, society and civilization in order to regulate it more accurately.Single-element thinking outside the system makes it impossible to get accurate prediction patterns.
With regard to the future of education, its core is innovative education.Data show that innovation-related jobs are now more than 50%.Therefore, education must shift to innovative talent development.The logical misunderstanding here is that these so-called innovative jobs are not cultivated in the "innovative education system", but rather the credit of traditional education.The reference to specializing in innovative education training is instead borrowed from the market orientation.
In the current innovative education, teachers should not be overlooked.There are various imperatives in the literature, and innovative education teachers must have strong abilities and characteristics, which I think can be achieved by individuals, but there is no possibility of obtaining these teachers on a large scale.On the contrary, true masters of innovation are basically raised from traditional education, not specially trained for innovation.
Why does this phenomenon occur?
The reason is that innovation must rely on a strong knowledge system.Without accumulating 跬 step and even a thousand miles, the ancients were very aware of this phenomenon and created the concept of "no castles in the air"."Innovation" without a foundation is blind, but it is superficial.
People need time to grow, and success takes time.
Thinking about basic education is the essence of education, so as not to change everything, the future can be expected, whether it is the southeast-northwest wind, I relaxed.