70 years ago, middle school students were able to take advanced mathematics classes in English on their first day in college. Today, students at Tsinghua University have language difficulties in reading math textbooks for American primary school students.
Whether in English or Chinese, today's master students are not as good as the middle school students 70 years ago.
The education 70 years ago was the education of "Reading First, then reading". It was the education of four or two thousand pounds - middle school students spent 200 hours learning English, and one year they could read Lincoln biography; Today's education is an education in which teachers work hard and sweat hard to "learn for students". It is an education in which middle school students spend 4000 hours learning English and can't study Andersen for seven years.
At that time, the efficiency of training talents was no less than that of Jews. There are thousands of people in Southwest Associated University, of whom 118 have become academicians in the mainland. There are no fewer people who have gone to Taiwan to become great scholars than those who have stayed in the mainland. Among those who have gone to the United States are world-class mathematicians chenshengshen, Nobel laureates YangZhenning and lizhengdao, and a large number of professors from top American universities; Yanjing University is a missionary school with an annual enrollment of more than 300 people. It was founded in 1919 and ended in 1952. It lasted 33 years, with a total of 9988 students, 33 academicians and 91 discipline founders.
Today's students, who entered the school at the age of 6 and graduated from the University at the age of 21 or 12, have always been candidates - a student who is too busy doing questions to study, can't be a great success; There can be no hope for a nation that is too busy studying for exams!
Reading is building roads, reading is walking.
Studying by reading and building roads by walking are bound to fail. Many people, even some teachers, do not understand the difference between studying and reading.
The Jewish proverb says, "learning is repetition."
Talmud in the Jewish code says, "it is better to read it 101 times than to read it 100 times." It emphasizes the value of repetition.
"Talmud" also said: "as long as you read a Book 100 times, you will be able to read any book in the world."
When Jewish children were 12 years old, everyone read the Old Testament as thick as the romance of the Three Kingdoms 100 times. The Old Testament is not only the Bible, but also a famous literary work.
In China, few people read a book as thick as the romance of the Three Kingdoms 100 times. There are only three people: one is Bajin, who has read Guwen Guanzhi 100 times; The other is Mao Dun, who has read a dream of Red Mansions 100 times; Another is Su Buqing, who read the incomplete romance of the Three Kingdoms by his neighbor 100 times when herding cattle in his childhood.
In China, no one who has read a Book 100 times is a great success. Every Jew has read a Book 100 times, so everyone becomes a great man.
Why can you read a Book 100 times and understand any book in the world? Why can anyone who reads a Book 100 times be a great success?
Reading is repetition.
Repetition is the law of human language.
Although the number of English words is huge, millions. The repetition of 1000 commonly used words constitutes 90% of the words in any newspaper, book, test paper; 1000 commonly used words are the most important. If you master these 1000 words, you will master 90% of the world of English. This is called "four Liang dialing a thousand catties". The repetition of 2000 basic words constitutes 95% of the words in any newspaper, book, examination paper.
The 2000 basic words are paving stones. Reading is to repeat simple things and use paving stones to pave sheep intestines into highways.
Reading means accumulation, repetition, circulation, grinding an iron pestle into a needle, and stepping into the ladder of "knowledge, familiarity, refinement, uniqueness and transformation".
Suhomlinsky has a wonderful discussion on reading and reading: to judge whether a student can learn, one is to see whether he has reached 200 hours of reading accumulation, and the other is to see whether he has reached 2000 hours of reading accumulation.
200 hours of reading is reading, and 2000 hours of reading is reading.
70 years ago, middle school students read the Indian English textbook as the Three Character Classic for 100 times, which happened to be the accumulation of 200 hours of reading. When YangZhenning, lizhengdao and other Southwest Associated University students first arrived in the United States, they read 200 English novels and 200 500 page books, which happened to be the accumulation of 2000 hours of reading as Sukhomlinsky said, and also the "traveling thousands of miles and reading thousands of volumes" as the ancient Chinese said.