When it comes to reading, I think the most important audience is teenagers.First of all, they are specially used for reading at this age; secondly, once they develop good reading habits in their school days, they will naturally become a learned reader when they become adults.It is natural for students to read, but why should I write on this topic?That's because our school education today, including home schooling, doesn't do what it's supposed to do, and most reading children don't develop good reading habits when they're students.The reason is that today's education has completely deviated from the normal track, not teaching students to read, but teaching students to take exams, not to cultivate and perfect their personality, but to desperately pursue scores and grades.
If students don't want to take exams, of course, how else can they go to college?But to say that all students have exams is a little too much.Moreover, if handled properly, the examination and reading are not contradictory, but complementary.Many schools, families, teachers and parents just don't recognize it.As far as I have been working as a teacher for many years, most children who love to read generally do not have poor academic performance there, on the contrary, there are many outstanding students who like to read.There are also ideas for college entrance examination programs and secondary school curriculum reform to encourage students to study, encourage self-study, or conduct inquiry learning, which is less conscious of the fact that parents are still concerned about children's scores.
Generally speaking, in order to pursue the entrance rate one-sidedly, schools only focus on classroom teaching and examination results, and go further and further on the road of examination education, making students tired.So I'm writing this text to tell our parents about their hearts, school matters are out of our control, but children at home, holidays and after-school time, parents can play a role, the key depends on whether you recognize the importance of reading for children.Of course, the good books I'm talking about here are the ones that are recognized as classics.
Education is essentially teaching people to learn to read, and Western education has a tradition of paying attention to reading teaching.
Sukhomlinski once said, "A school may be everything, but it cannot be called a school without books necessary for the full development and enrichment of human life, or if people do not like books and are indifferent to them."”
I often read such reports in the press that some Chinese students studying abroad have not been able to adapt to the education there for half a day.One of the main reasons is that I can't keep up with reading, and I read too little.The China Youth Daily once published an article "American homework beats Chinese dad" said that the daughter of a senior in the United States often gets big homework, such as citizen research, requires reading at least five reference books and writing a five-page paper.In order to complete this kind of homework better, it is not possible to read, or even to read a small amount of books.Later, the classmate had to ask for help online for his father on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, and no matter how clever the father was, he could not replace the child's reading.Later, in order to complete the paper, the classmate borrowed about 10 books from the library at a time.
There is also a Chinese girl named Gao Ge, who began studying in the United States in elementary school, and by the time she got used to this teaching in high school, it was reading and writing.To my surprise, she attended a reading camp when she graduated from high school, and in more than a month she read no less than 100 books, and they were all serious 800 classic academic masterpieces.Her performance at the school camp added significant points to her eventual admission to Yale University.
During his presidency, President Bush launched an educational program called "Reading – Leaving No One Left Behind," which aims to further promote reading among young people.The programme has detailed requirements for the assignments of various libraries, not only to provide out-of-pocket services where possible, but also to provide students with reading instruction.
In comparison, our teenagers are far less likely to read and be enthusiastic about reading.Of course, the main reason is that school and family education deprive children of the right to read, such as having schools explicitly stipulate that they are not allowed to read extracurricular books during self-study time.Parents who ask their children for tutoring or supplementary classes on weekends and holidays are abundant, but they rarely hear of parents who encourage their children to read.Obviously, whether it is English summer camp, Ausu summer camp, or calligraphy summer camp parents are willing to let their children participate, but if it is a summer camp, not necessarily parents willing to let their children participate.
To say that teaching children to read is more important than anything else, there is also an important reason why reading is so important to life and success that exams and scores are completely incomparable.Bacon said, "Reading history makes wise, reading poetry makes wise, mathematics makes meticulous, science makes profound, ethics makes solemn, logical rhetoric makes eloquence, and everything learned becomes character."”
Sukhomlinski said, "I firmly believe that adolescents' self-education begins with reading a good book."I thought that the purpose of education could only be achieved if every young man found a book that left a deep mark in his life."There is a library expert in Taiwan who says that children who love to read don't get worse.In the end, the significance of reading and life and achievement is because books are the crystallization of the best spiritual and cultural heritage of mankind, carrying rich scientific culture and humanistic moral nutrition.The most important and effective way to develop students' humanities is to read books.Therefore, I would like to solemnly warn the villagers here that the examination should not be taken as the purpose of children's education, and teaching children to read is the most important thing.