In the past few years, especially in the last hundred years, the new education in China has developed with the opening of the country, the self-improvement of the nation and the global development. In this historical process, a group of China's best intellectuals devoted themselves to the historical torrent of "saving the country through education", inherited the outstanding achievements of world education, initiated the difficult experiment of modern education localization, and wrote the temporary glory of China's new education. This is undoubtedly a beacon and guide for survey of education in contemporary China. The Teacher of the Past is such a book.
After working for 8 years, I always feel that as a modern teacher, I am too busy. We feel busy preparing lessons, attending classes, assigning homework, correcting homework and coping with one exam after another every day. Day after day, year after year, we walk into the classroom with lofty educational ideals, but now we gradually lose ourselves in the education post, resulting in a sense of burnout for this profession, and sometimes even feel at a loss. By chance, my lover introduced this book to me. After reading it in my spare time, I was gradually attracted and moved by the story inside. This book is about how your teacher's teacher (called "Mrs. Tai") or a teacher before them taught half a century ago, how they treated their students, how they settled down, how they studied and how they behaved. This book brings together the memories of Ji Xianlin, Qian Xuesen, Su, Wang Zengqi, Feng Zikai and other famous people about their school days and their teachers. Through this book, I can see the demeanor of educators in the past, understand the living conditions of teachers in the past, and understand their living and learning styles. Observing them is like looking at the stars in the sky with an astronomical telescope. After reading them, I can't help thinking: Oh, maybe I will shine in the eyes of students like them in the future. This book let me relive the great personality of my predecessors' teachers, and also answered many doubts in my heart, which gave me a lot of inspiration and helped me find the motivation and direction of my work again.
This book touched me a lot:
First of all, we are moved by their loyalty to education and their responsibility for national danger. We should worry about the world first.
During the Anti-Japanese War, teachers were completely isolated from revolutionary enemy lines in enemy-occupied areas, and unarmed old scholars made great efforts to teach students. The environment is getting worse and worse, and life is getting harder and harder. Teachers and like-minded old gentlemen are working harder and harder. Teacher Chen once said earnestly: "To destroy a nation, the enemy must first destroy its history and culture. The immortality of the Chinese nation is also one of the fundamental measures to resist the enemy. " (Mr. Qi Gong's article commemorating Chen Yuan's birthday100th anniversary)
In that era of domestic troubles and foreign invasion, although educators did not have enough to eat, they were able to stick to their ideals, create educational miracles, and cultivate batches of outstanding talents, because they knew that they were engaged in the great cause of saving the country and benefiting the people and the next generation, and they were respected teachers. "These' teachers of the past' are obsessed with their own ideals and can cultivate so many pillars of the motherland in the years of frequent wars. They worry about the world first, and everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world. Only in this way can the education of the Chinese nation have hope.
Secondly, I was moved by their persistence in enduring loneliness and poverty.
In the past, the status of teachers was humble. Mr. Qi Rushan's article "Children in Primary Schools Seventy Years ago" said that at that time, teachers were basically ignored by the state, and the quality of teachers was entirely chosen by the family. The most popular teachers with poems and essays had relatively high quality. Agricultural, industrial and commercial families just want to save money, and the low quality of the teachers they invite is staggering! A drama called "Teaching" described in this paper depicts the difficulty of teachers' job hunting and the low standards of farmers' job hunting at that time, which is particularly harsh and exaggerated.
"Sven is worthless, and his eyes are blue with hunger. If someone becomes a museum, it is a life-saving fairy. "
Teachers used to be miserable. They are not as rich as they are today in food, clothing, use and play, and their wages are not as high as ours. They also have to face war, famine and displacement, and people from the old to the young have raised a big family. Their lives were the same as those of ordinary people in China in the old society. "However, from this article, we can see that they live a full life and are very complacent. Because they have ideals in their hearts and ideals about education, they do not regard education as a profession, but pursue education as a career.
Third, I was moved by their rigorous spirit to the extreme.
Teacher Lou Shiyi recalled the details of several teachers who had a profound influence on him when he was a child, which left a deep impression on me. He wrote:
"He used a small screen less than a foot high to cover the candlelight on three sides, not disturbing our sleep, and continued to correct the composition. Sleep till dawn, it's time to get up, so I sit up and get dressed. When the curtain was lifted, the red candle was still lit on the table by the window, and the old man's brush continued to work.
"Old man, why don't you sleep?"
"This, this is over, this is over."
It turned out that he stayed up late for a composition class when we were in senior three.
Mr. Wang Zengqi also recalled his teacher like this:
He always sits on the table in a small room between the third and fourth grade classrooms, correcting students' compositions and "judging" the big characters. He is very careful in judging words. He not only circled the words with red strokes, but also corrected the irregularities in the strokes with red strokes. If a word "shelf" is unbalanced, there is a demonstration of the word next to it. I read Mr. Zhou's sentence carefully and got some understanding. My brushwork is a little skillful, which is the basis of teacher Zhou's smashing.
After reading this, I can't help but be moved by the teacher's dedication and rigorous spirit. Looking back on this story, I can't help but be impressed by the teachers' down-to-earth spirit of pursuing details.
Fourth, I am moved that they love every student with their parents' heart.
Teacher Shang Youjing, editor-in-chief of Teachers of the Past, wrote in the preface of this book: The quality of a teacher lies in his attitude towards students. Why do you want to be a teacher is based on your love for students, just like parents treat their children. Teachers should treat every student with a democratic and equal attitude and respect every student. Whether students are smart or slow; Is it beautiful or ugly; Whether excellent or stubborn, teachers must not be partial, let alone discriminate. Only by giving love can you get love in return. Being a teacher and loving students is the foundation for the success of all education. Many teachers in the book cultivate students with love. Mr. Qi Gong, a famous calligrapher and "national treasure" scholar, also wrote an article recalling his teacher. In this article, he mentioned some methods taught by Mr. Chen Yuan, who was once called a "national treasure" by President Mao Zedong. There are nine * * *, such as:
(1) Teaching a class of middle school students is different from teaching several children in a private school. People standing on the platform should have a look. People's faces are antagonistic, but feelings cannot be antagonistic;
(2) Don't favor one over the other, and don't despise students;
(3) Give priority to encouraging praise. Bad students, including those who are naughty or have poor grades, should try their best to find them some benefits and praise them;
(4) Don't lose your temper. Even if it is effective once, how can you lose your temper even more when something worse happens in the future? What if it doesn't work after losing your temper? These teaching methods of teachers are worth learning.
Fifth, they were moved by their advanced educational ideas.
The book introduces a picture teacher's teaching method, which is still worth learning:
"He teaches painting. Once he showed everyone a teapot, and then drew a big circle on the blackboard, saying that it was a teapot. Everyone laughed. He drew a lid on the circle, flattened the bottom, added a mouth on one side and a handle on the other, which really looked like a teapot. He said that if you want to learn to draw, you must learn to look first, and you must see the "outline" before drawing anything.
He seldom makes sense in his lectures. Reasoning is like magic, telling the difference between light and shadow for everyone to try.
He teaches science without sticking to textbooks. Once he took us out of the school gate to talk about cruciferous plants in a nearby vegetable garden, and opened up several small plots in the big yard of the school. The students were divided into groups and were responsible for each other, so they taught some knowledge about weather, meteorology, geography, soil, plants, animals and human beings in their work, doing, asking and speaking. "
On the other hand, in today's classroom, our teaching equipment is advanced, the teaching environment is improved, and the treatment of teachers is improved, but it seems that our teaching methods are backward. In class, students' participation in speaking is very low. After reading the article, let me reflect and improve my teaching and improve my teaching methods.
Six, moved by their love for books and thirst for knowledge.
When recalling his study life, Qian Xuesen said, "We didn't have such sufferings at that time (198 1 year). Play at school after school, go home after dark, don't be afraid of exams, don't surprise exams, no one can't get into college. The best student in the class can get 80 points. Never forget to dig textbooks and advocate reading more extracurricular books. There are many elective courses in the affiliated middle school, and students have a wide range of knowledge ... "The old gentleman in Ji Xianlin" peeked at the notes "at an early age. The so-called idle books are low-level, such as Gong Peng Case, Biography of Qi Huangong, Elvis Presley, and The List of Gods. The high-level books, such as A Dream of Red Mansions and The Journey to the West, have much to do with his later achievements. Ji Lao said in his article: "This kind of casual reading is not only harmless to me, but also beneficial. Now for primary school students, in extracurricular reading, like other aspects, it is not necessarily the right way to be too strict, too much, and too much. " The teacher in the story makes students like reading and writing. Whether it is Professor Pan who studies contemporary literature, a famous contemporary poet or a famous poetics theorist, these so-called masters of contemporary literature may not show superhuman qualities in middle school. Even these masters who spend their time playing around or doing nothing have a common feature: they like reading, and it is precisely because they like reading that (www.eduche.com) will have a broader world in his heart.
Our forefathers, without exception, influenced generations of students to a broader world with extensive knowledge and lofty ideals, and without exception, infected students with noble personality to pass on the excellent spirit of our nation.
The Teacher of the Past is really worth reading, especially for me, who is a little tired of teaching. At the end of the preface of this book, it reads: "I hope that today's young teachers will take out this book to read one or two in their busy academic leisure." Just like enjoying the cool under the big tree of history, a little understanding, a little warning, a little understanding and a little encouragement are enough. Of course, it is best to say, as Confucius said, "The mountain rises and the scenery stops. Although I can't reach it, my heart yearns for it. " As a teacher, we must first know our position in today's society, so that we can clearly understand what role we should play and how much role we can play, so that we can stand here and teach and really do a good job in teaching and educating people.
All this has benefited me a lot. Write it down as a kind of self-encouragement.