How children were stifled by their creativity and thus missed the Nobel Prize

Author: Zhao Xiaoming Editing and typesetting: Ma Ma Cui Guanli

Xiaoming's quotations:

School education is uniformly training students into industrial workers and management staff required by the social assembly line.


1. Why did we fail to cultivate talents?

double reduction of supporting education, we must reform our teaching system and teaching materials .

We must admit that our current teaching methods and teaching materials are a failure of for nurturing talents, otherwise there will be no famous Qian Xuesen question.

Over the past few years, we have selected 1.3 billion people from a population of 1.3 billion, through layers of examination and education, and selected talents, whether they stay in China or go abroad, can win the Nobel Prize. Not much.

This is a serious mismatch with the general IQ of our Chinese being among the top in the world.

Taking mathematics as an example, our teaching content is completely designed for question and examination. We did not spread mathematics ideas, mathematics literacy and the ability to use mathematics to think about problems to children.


In the field of psychology, a professionally educated psychologist, he will look at problems from the perspective of psychology.


2. Mathematics Education Why did it fail?

Let’s see that Chinese children are generally educated in mathematics. How many people in use mathematics to think about problems in life?

Calculus, linear algebra and probability and statistics, the three cornerstones of modern science, are the same even in college education. People can only take exams but cannot build mathematical thinking.

Mathematics should be taught most for its use , our middle school mathematics education is not really deep, but only tricky exam questions.

The purpose of our exams is to divert people.

is mathematics itself, it is to cultivate a kind of mathematics thinking, in fact, there is nothing wrong with mathematics education in ancient China. Hook 3 strands, 4 strings, 5, is for to describe the relationship between things, this is the essence of mathematics. This is also the essence of the function.

In essence, mathematics is extremely useful. Mathematics is also the cornerstone of liberal arts. The evolution of human beings, the evolution of history, individuals and groups, is this not reflected in mathematical operations? The same is also inseparable from mathematical operations and logic.

The purpose of mathematics education in primary and secondary schools is actually a kind of science popularization of mathematics, so that every child can understand and comprehend common sense of mathematics and enlightenment on philosophy of mathematics.

What mathematics should teach children is, on the core principles and logical structure of the subject of mathematics.

The learning process of a person should start from the scientific statement of the principle and structure. The child must first have a qualitative understanding of mathematics, and then 's moderate quantitative mathematical formulas and numerical expressions.

And our mathematics education and examinations have become a tool used to waste children’s youth and wear down their talents. It is famously called to select talents, but to let all learn Those who have experienced mathematics feel that it is rarely used in life and work. This in itself is a failure of mathematics education, wasting the learning time of children who could have been used to develop their talents.

Many people have been misled by the education pipeline in their entire life from studying mathematics in kindergarten to graduating from master's and doctoral degrees! Wrong yourself! Wrong country! Wrong talent!

To give one of the most simple examples, once I went to a class outside the city and was with a few people who also graduated with a master's degree in psychology.

Let's buy melons, there are croissant honey and yellow river honey .

First judge whether the old farmer selling melons is not credible, and then pick a croissant honey to taste whether it is sweet or not. At this time, Bayes' law can be used.

But I asked several students who graduated with a master's degree in psychology, but they couldn't understand the relationship between Bayes' law and buying melons.

This all illustrates the failure of our education from elementary school to university.


3. What happened to those gifted children?

  • Who is the most stressed group in China?
  • Who is the most tired group every day?
  • Who is the cruelest group being squeezed every day?

This answer is ignored by our society.Our middle school students.


The average Chinese IQ ranks among the top in the world, and there are many Chinese middle school students whose IQ exceeds 120. This has research data from the Ministry of Health. Not to mention that there are many Chinese college students with an IQ of 130.

The key is that people with IQs of 120 and 130 in China are counted as gifted children in the United States.

China has a population of 1.3 billion and more children with an IQ of over 120 than all the children in Germany, the United States, and Japan combined.


The question now is how many outstanding talents have been cultivated since the Republic of China by such a smart person who has studied so hard every day?

How many students who graduated from Qingbei have won the Nobel Prize?

Even if you say that the domestic research environment is poor, funding is insufficient, and so on for a number of reasons, think about how many Qingbei students study abroad every year. After so many years, how many have won the Nobel Prize?


Not only that, we also have many training courses for gifted children. Over the years, we have trained many people. What about so many gifted children?

Where are the top talents?

If the scope is expanded, every university in China has talents studying abroad,After so many years of accumulation, why can't there be a few outstanding talents?


The problem is definitely not in terms of IQ, but in our talent screening method and talent training methods.

We let our children squeeze their children's learning abilities too much before university. After they enter university, most of them are not interested in their majors or lose their ability to continue learning or their creativity.


There is another possibility, that is Our basic education does not allow children to thoroughly learn these subjects . Experts, but do not have the ability to master the subject.

The country wants to reform education and do double reduction. It must study this problem that puzzles the Chinese people and give everyone an answer so that they can have the right direction. If this issue is not clear, the policy cannot point to the fundamental drawbacks.


Xiao Ming's quotations:

Really determine the educational content of the education needs according to the distribution of the children’s brain development.

Original public account: Heart Partner (ID: xhbeap)

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