Formulas and theorems are useless in daily life.
Another misunderstanding of high school science education is that a lot of knowledge, such as mathematical formulas, physical theorems, etc., will not be used in the future and there is no need to learn. Regarding this question, Wang Dianjun, president of Tsinghua High School, said, "I studied mathematics, and now I really can't remember a lot of physical knowledge. But is physics useless? The way of thinking I established in the process of physics learning has become a part of thinking. "
Wang Dianjun said that after entering the university, science stopped studying literature, and liberal arts stopped studying science. Most people's science literacy or liberal arts literacy will stop at high school. "If our teacher can realize that he will be the last teacher of students in a certain field, teaching may be different."
Before becoming the principal, Wang Dianjun was a professor of mathematics in Tsinghua University. He smiled and said that his daughter had been stopped for several Olympic Games. "I can't do any of the questions she asked me." Wang Dianjun said that it is not because the topic is difficult, but because the method of solving problems in the Olympic Mathematics class is "abnormal".
In Wang Dianjun's view, a good science education is not to teach students all kinds of strange methods to solve problems, but to make students "lose their interest in learning". From the positioning point of view, in the basic education stage, science education should face all students and solve the problem of improving the overall level of scientific literacy of the whole people in the future. He said that to really do a good job in science education, it is necessary to be rich in content, clear in levels, comprehensively evaluate students, open examinations in all subjects, and introduce the method of average score (GPA). At the same time, on the basis of scientific evaluation, change the way of entering a higher school, so that all students' time becomes meaningful study time.
The Olympics is not the whole story, so stop when it is time to stop.