At 8 p.m. on August 23, Zi Yanyang, headmaster of the High School Affiliated to Xi’an Jiaotong University, was a guest in the live broadcast room of the ninth “Home-School-Community-Education Public Welfare Live Series Activities” “The Principal is Here – Suggestions for Children’s Growth” , and talked with Du Lan, president of the Guangdong Artificial Intelligence Industry Association, about hot topics in education such as “what kind of talents are needed in colleges and universities” and “how to teach adolescent children”.
On January 1, 2022, the “Family Education Promotion Law ” was officially implemented, and family education was upgraded from “family affairs” to “state affairs”, and “home-school-community” co-education became the focus of social attention. As a doctoral supervisor in a college and a former director of the college admissions office, Zi Yanyang has a profound insight into how to transition from “high quality” early education to higher education. In his notebook, he wrote this sentence: “Where does the wisdom of human beings to inherit and create knowledge come from? What rules does it have?” He believes that the ultimate goal of education is “to gain wisdom”.
Zi Yanyang talked with audiences about how to cultivate children’s strength in the face of setbacks, how to use interest to help children improve their learning ability, how parents can lead by example, and how to use communication skills to resolve the “rebellious ages” and other key topics. Zi Yanyang believes, “Education is not an industry, but more like agriculture. There is a long and objectively regular growth process. With time, children will be able to grow up. We must wait for the flowers to bloom.”
Talent: Accepting setbacks is an important ability to become a talent
Facing the future, what core qualities do students need to have in order to be considered truly both virtuous and talented?
Used to be the director of the Admissions Office of Xi’an Jiaotong University, and visited 160 middle schools across the country in the past 6 years, Zi Yanyang very much agrees with the education concept of Tao Xingzhi, a great educator, which is exactly the same as the standard of “future talents” favored by universities. “It requires five abilities: “scientific mind, farmer’s body, dexterous hands, aesthetic taste and courage to transform society”.
“The scientific mind refers to scientific thinking, doing the right thing and doing things correctly; the dexterous hands have strong hands-on ability to solve practical problems; the farmer’s body refers to a strong physique, and the ability to challenge oneself, the will to overcome the self; the aesthetic taste is to be able to appreciate and create beauty; more importantly, to dedicate youth and strength to the country and the nation.”
Duran shared her view on talents from the perspective of business needs: “Curiosity, able to actively learn new things, new knowledge and new skills; optimistic, able to innovate and break through various obstacles; self-motivated and willing to take risks , challenge their own potential; have judgment, have a vision in the face of big right and wrong, have strategic decision-making ability; have tenacity, can ’embroider’ and ‘pick big shit’.”
In the online session, parents asked, how to let children face setbacks calmly? Zi Yanyang said that accepting setbacks is also an important ability to face future growth and success. First, as a parent, you must accept your child’s fear of difficulties. It is normal for a child to lose his temper after making mistakes. Sexual sports programs take children to “trial and error”, encounter setbacks in sports activities, fall and get up again, constantly challenge themselves and overcome themselves, so as to improve the ability to resist setbacks.
Zi Yanyang believes that “sports” not only has “body”, strong physique, but also “education”, which helps children overcome themselves and exercise the will and heart to challenge the limit. Duran is a marathon enthusiast. She believes: “The beauty of sports is that you can see the results of your efforts.” Duran said that sports can hone children’s endurance, willpower and persistence on the sports field, as well as Sociability, leadership, ability to compete and cooperate, “Sport is essentially the education of personality”.
In the annual ring of Shuangjiazi of the High School Affiliated to Xi’an Jiaotong University, there is a sentence engraved: “If you want to become a first-class knowledge, you must first cultivate a first-class character.” These 16 words originate from the school’s true thinking about education. The school’s pursuit of educational development. Zi Yanyang said that in the school-running logic of the High School Affiliated to Xi’an Jiaotong University, teaching and educating people is not to fill the basket, but to light up the lamp, “Good education should come for development, cultivate students’ comprehensive quality, and promote students’ achievement. comprehensive development.”