There is a portrait of Confucius hanging on the platform of Juzhai Private School, and Han Li's calligraphy "The Analects of Confucius" hangs on the opposite wall. Students' desks are legless square tables similar to Japanese tatami style, and chairs are legless square stools slightly higher than the ground. "Sir Zhang Zhiyi" wore a robe with no collar, big sleeves, double-breasted buttons and a belt. It is said that it is a Confucian costume of the Ming Dynasty, and eight students sit cross-legged. Mr. Wang holds the scriptures in his left hand and his right hand is attached to his back. As he walked one step, he led the students to recite, and the sound of reading rang out from the private school.
This is the scene of an audition class in a private school in Suzhou on the afternoon of June 65438+ 101. A month ago, on September 28th, it was the birthday of Confucius, the most holy teacher, and it was also the first time that the whole world jointly paid homage to Confucius. This "Juzhai Private School" was announced to be opened in Suzhou.
It should be said that after seeing such news, it is hard to make a fuss-there are already two major backgrounds that are already paving the way. Not long ago, on June 6th, 10, Renmin University of China held the opening ceremony and unveiling ceremony of National College. Earlier, President Ji Baocheng published two articles in People's Daily and Southern Weekend respectively, which seemed to be a declaration to revitalize Chinese studies. President Ji believes that the research and revitalization of Sinology is the need to restore cultural self-confidence, to improve the quality of national culture, and to improve China's humanistic and academic creativity. There are also many voices questioning the establishment of the National College of China Renmin University and the implementation of Chinese studies education, each with a different reputation, which has become the focus of public opinion for a time.
Another background is the phenomenon of large classes in schools, especially graduate students. Wu, Vice Minister of Education, was blunt in his speech at the national teleconference on the pilot reform of college English teaching: For many years, our foreign language teaching has maintained the classroom teaching mode of teachers giving lectures and students attending lectures, and most of them are taught in large classes, filled with blackboards, notes and homework, which is a traditional one-way classroom teaching. Especially after the enrollment expansion, this situation is more prominent. According to a survey of 340 universities two years ago, only 37% of them have classes with less than 40 students, two-thirds of them have English classes with more than 40 students, and even 20 universities have classes with more than 80 students.
Therefore, we can't simply look at the private school education only in ancient society. On the one hand, some people talk about Chinese studies, some people run colleges (Fudan University has established Fudan College with the nature of an academy), and then there are private schools. Now it seems that all forms of education in ancient society have been completed. On the other hand, in view of the present situation that large class size can not be ignored in education, "living in private schools" seems to make up for this defect.
As the "Mr" of the private school said, it was named "Modern" after the private school, and its starting point was still Chinese studies. The main purpose of establishing a private school is to carry forward Chinese studies and cultivate children's classical cultural heritage and elegant feelings; The main teaching content is to teach Mongolian studies, Confucian classics, poetry and prose, interspersed with lectures on ancient music, calligraphy and painting, tea ceremony and so on.
But judging from the current enrollment situation, it seems that not many people are interested. In the interview, an official of Suzhou Education Bureau said that at present, the so-called modern private school does not need to be discussed as a problem, because it is only a case in its infancy, which is not enough to be the research object and will not have any impact on Suzhou's education market. If it is evaluated as a teaching point, it must meet at least two conditions, namely, a place that meets the teaching and safety requirements and a lecturer with teacher qualifications. People are more interested not only in what private schools teach, but also in their clothes, and this carefully arranged and prepared private school, which is difficult to meet the minimum requirements put forward by officials of the Municipal Education Bureau, turned out to be a "passport" for "Cultural Communication Co., Ltd.".
It can be seen that it doesn't matter what you teach or what path you take. What is important is whether the form of ancient private schools is necessary to be too rigid.
Of course, this also leads to a funny: students don't know whether to call Zhang Zhiyi "Mr" or the general manager of a modern fashion company? While innovating the education system, this move will inevitably be called cultural restoration.