Some people think it is smart to recite a lot of ancient poems and children's songs at the age of 2-3. What do you mean by "smart"?

Are children who can recite a lot of ancient poems at the age of two or three smart? This can only say that his memory ability is good, but it does not mean that he is smart, because what we traditionally think of as smart actually includes three things, memory ability, understanding ability and creativity. Only when these three things are available can the next child be really smart.

I can recite some ancient poems when I was very young, which proves that children have good memory ability. When memorizing some new words, whether in Chinese or English, it may have a better effect, faster than children of the same age. This is an advantage, but it is unwise to rely only on an excellent memory ability, because the knowledge of many subjects needs to be understood, and only when it is understood will it be effective. Simple rote memorization won't have any effect.

Understanding ability refers to how much she can receive on the spot, and it can also be understood as the real-time transmission rate of knowledge after the child comes to school to teach him new knowledge. The teacher told him a lesson, and we assumed that he could understand 10 knowledge points. After several lessons, he remembered everything he didn't say, so that he could know why the teacher said so at that time and what the principle of these knowledge was. This is her understanding ability. The stronger her understanding ability, the more children she has.

The last part is creative ability, which is only needed in higher education. For example, if you write a graduation thesis at the graduate stage or undergraduate course, you must have certain creative ability, not to create a law, but to create a novel point of view and a novel angle. Originally, neither an undergraduate nor a graduate student has strong creative ability, which means you have to have some different views. Everyone else thinks so, you think so, everyone else writes so, and you write so. If you can't get high marks, there must be wonderful things that others can't think of.

If these three aspects are in place, this person obviously has a very good development prospect in learning, and both aspects are good, which proves that learning can only take this road. Just on the one hand, it depends on hard work, that is, either a good memory or a good understanding, which can only be honed by time. Because of the strong understanding, it is useless to remember. Remember, no matter how good you are, you can't understand it. Too much workload can't solve the problem, so most people are ordinary people.