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"in 21 countries surveyed, China ranks first children's computing power, imagination, ranked last on the creativity ranking fifth from the bottom. Why is there such a phenomenon?" This is the City twenty-third meeting of the Standing Committee yesterday, group discussion, "Compulsory Education Regulations of Chongqing Municipality (Draft)" (referred to as Bill), the Municipal People's Congress deputy director of the City Federation of Trade Unions President Hu Jiankang issue from the past.

is considered the second draft of the forty-fourth article, "Schools should be the full implementation of quality education ... ... to strengthen capacity-building, improve their learning ability, practical ability and creative ability." Hu Jiankang suggested that the revised terms, "the full implementation of quality school education, students should focus on improving the imagination, ability and creativity."

he said, the above example is the International Assessment of Educational Progress 2009 organizations in 21 countries on the global findings. In addition, primary and secondary students in China that they have a curiosity and imagination and only 4.7%, and wish to develop imagination and creativity, and only 14.9%.

example, he said, the United States shared the Top of several professional societies affect human life in the 20th century, 20 major inventions, there is no one invented by the Chinese; Chinese students to get a doctorate in the United States each year as many as 2,000 people, the highest non-US born students, but U.S. experts commented that, although the outstanding performance of Chinese students, imagination is very lacking. He therefore proposed to amend the relevant provisions, through the primary and secondary legislation to strengthen the "imaginative education."

Municipal Standing Committee, Party Secretary Wang Zhijie group also believes that the city's imagination and creativity in students is necessary to strengthen training should be legislation to safeguard. It was his understanding that this work is currently carried in a very uneven, only a few schools have created programs such practice. He suggested that schools should engage in more targeted programs, enhance their thinking skills and creativity.

famous educator, former president of Wuhan University, Liu Daoyu had previously said the child's imagination of the Chinese scientific community worry that the situation, "a test for life," the exam-oriented education seriously hindered the student's imagination and creativity , the liberation of China's education must start from the liberation of the child's curiosity.

Liu Daoyu to take the world's two most important countries of family education compared --- China and Israel. Israel pursued the lion parent education parenting law: lion lioness left alone to learn to survive; family education in China is toward two extremes: either spoiled or bar to drink. As a result, Israel's nearly 10 Nobel Prize winners, and China is no one there.

edition releases promise more than two Tang Hanfeng by the text of a press reporter Zhang quality photo

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we "imaginative education" for adults and children made a Experiment

abstract figure painting what you see it like

unknown abstract painting, is a reporter yesterday to survey children and adults imagination, it looks like?

"alien", "Zoo," "Goldfish," "Home", "Bull plans," "Earth" ... ... the eyes of the children, it is "anything is possible"; while Many adults, but this is just a face, the answer is the same, like the songs "World is the only."

children: everything is possible

yesterday afternoon, the reporter took this picture to Nanping Experimental Primary School. Look at this picture, the children yelling away. "It's like a beautiful goldfish in the water!" "No, an owl asleep in the trees." "I think it is the animal that King Kong!" ... ...

Grade 8 classes in a , invited 10 journalists who just turned 6 years old children to the podium, his eyes on the blackboard to write the contents of the picture, the results obtained, "Alien," "Zoo" and eight answers. Exposing students to special minister told reporters: "This is the picture of two cows, one bull race in progress." He also pointed to the side of the picture, told reporters here while what there is, paints a vivid map of bullfighting.

Adults: more than half said that face

reporter went to the Chongqing Technology and Business University, in a classroom to find some self-study of university students is to "study" the picture.

10 college students, there are 6 people the answer is "human face", a "head", "mouth" and so on, there are two answers are "river", the other two the answer is "horse" and "Waterfall." One boy said with a smile: "These are two heads, a couple is face to face with kisses."

Subsequently, the reporter in another pedestrian street Nanping exam test more than a dozen four-year-old passerby, More than half said that Zhang "face."

"Are there any good in this, is a palette overthrown." Zhang said selling snack food. The 36-year-old Ms. Gao tilted his head looked a long time, sure to say: "is a person in tears."

Expert: Painting no standard answer

"It is precisely because one kind of standard answer to find the psychological, so lost in our imagination. "psychology teacher in Chongqing eighth Zou Hong said the painting are what you say, everyone can have their own different views, but adults will to guess the standard answer, so get more answers than children.

Zou Hong believe that imagination should not have weakened with age. On the contrary, because the experience more, see more, adults should be richer than the child's imagination.

"problems in our schools, has been the standard of teaching children to find answers to, bound their independent thinking; in home education, parents do not allow children to have abnormal thoughts, and slowly strangle the child of the imagination. "Zou Hong said, education need not uniform, so that children have more personal space, so that they more than daydreaming, children will probably retain more of the imagination.

recommended

behavior of the adults which will kill the child's imagination? How to train and exercise the child's imagination? Graduated from Southwest University of child psychology, Dr. Wu Jin gives the following recommendations.

develop these acts of imagination

1 to read with your children, and in the process to encourage children to ask questions, comparison, guessing, drawing down the performance, the express different ideas, imagine strength training can do more with less.

2 often give children some imagination training. Give some simple symbols such as a line, a semicircle, a circle, let the children to combine these stories encourage children to mix as much as possible some of the more complex, a completely different story.

3 encourage children to disassembly of used goods, appropriate to the child puzzles. Such as children used to take it watch disassembly, or even home computer and other items, parents can accompany their children disassembly and maintenance.

4 to allow more children to do some fast thinking exercises to encourage children to think more turn when the number of turns, while encouraging them not by adults, the mindset to think.

kill these acts of imagination

1 the only correct standard answer. A classic case is this: The teacher asked, "What is snow?" A child answered, "the snow of the spring", the results answer the teacher marked red cross, because it is incompatible with the standard answer.

2 do things for the kids. For example for the children washing dishes, laundry, endorsement package, tie shoes, so that the child lost the basic ability and curiosity.

3 to stop the child unique. It also has a classic case: a child drew a picture of the green sun, the result corrected by teachers and parents, because "the sun should be red." This approach will cause the child's imagination can not be different.

4 early development of intelligence. Many parents stressed that their children do not lose at the starting line, from childhood instill in their children a large number of ready-made knowledge, the results of the child down, back down, the answer seems to know everything, and lost interest in exploring the unknown world.

Evening News Commentary

to give the child more than daydream

■ Sunshine

the imagination of the students in the countries under investigation last first, this news makes us depressed. Who killed the child's imagination and creativity? Traditional exam-oriented education to blame!

the issue of education in China is obvious: to give you a "0" in math class can only be zero only in the English class "O", can not have another answer. Challenge the teacher's authority, will be subject to ruler or similar ruler of the discipline, the path of Chinese children to education, that is spoon-fed rote memorization of "full knowledge" of the process.

1968, the United States, a mother sued the kindergarten, that his 3-year-old daughter of the Church Kindergarten 26 letters, the children can no longer be "0" as the apple, sun, football, eggs and the like what a kindergarten child should stifle the imagination of such consequences. That lawsuit, the parents won, and led Nevada to modify the "Civic Education Protection Act."

this educational concept, students leave early toys, forced to participate in the excessive number of early response to the adult world of competition to the detriment of the natural growth of life and laws of nature, which is the child "production "into the bundle with wire, twisted bonsai, and not trained to stand tall and towering trees.

Imagination is more important than knowledge, this is Einstein's conclusion --- the world's great masters, "because knowledge is limited while imagination summarizes everything in the world, stimulating progress." Thus to see our spoon-feeding education, but in fact caught the wrong focus. No imagination how the nation would be: impact on human life in the 20th century, 20 major inventions, there is no one invented by the Chinese; Israel nearly 10 Nobel Prize winners, one of China did not ... ...

last place is definitely worth reflection, but please people do not rightly criticized as a child, forgetting the adult world respected the traditional exam-oriented education is the culprit.

remember, experts say, and let the child more than daydreaming.