"The truth of a character can only be expressed through a dilemma. How the person chooses to act under pressure shows what kind of person he is - the greater the pressure, the more deeply and truly revealed his choices. The truth of its character."
-Robert
McKee McKee 's theory, directed at screenwriting, also reveals the truth of life to a certain extent. The wind knows the grass, and the fire sees the real gold. To test the authenticity of Xueba, you have to go to Mars. Mark Watney used what he knew and learned to overcome all difficulties and successfully pass the level in this Mars survival game. Several things such as planting potatoes and communicating with the earth are simply amazing. His self-rescue operation is inseparable from the various emergency rescues of his teammates and NASA engineers on the ground. This is obviously a group of academic masters that can stand the test. This type of academic tyrants represented by them, I will call it "trial tyrants".
There is another kind of academic bully in this world. It may not be suitable for them to grow potatoes on Mars, but give them a set of mock exam papers and real exam questions, whether it is Haidian or Huanggang, whether it is on Earth or Mars, They can all get high scores smoothly, this one is the "exam-type scholar".
As you and I know, our education is cultivating a lot of this kind of "exam-type student." Impeccable on the test paper, unsatisfactory in practice, and often loses the ability to act under pressure. He is good at using three or more different methods to solve the same problem, but he can't solve it, and he can't even find the actual problem around him.
Our education has a lot of good words and sentences, formulas and theorems that require memorization and learning, but we never tell you where these things will be used.
Our schools, parents, teachers, and students plunged into the sea of questions to torture and encourage each other, accepting all unreasonable settings, and completely neglecting to think and respond to really important issues. Those things you learned for the college entrance examination were almost completely forgotten when you went to college. I almost forgot everything I learned in college as soon as I got a job.
More seriously, we gain a sense of security from such long-term repetitive training, so we are reluctant to step out of our comfort zone and start to fear uncertainty and new challenges.
We have all received this kind of educational training for a long time, and regardless of the questionable quality of the textbooks, there are too many test questions and homework in this kind of training, but it is extremely lacking in opportunities to interact with real life, and even less opportunities for teamwork. A lot of what we learn has nothing to do with learning, but we all wear the cloak of learning. In the process, we did not really learn how to learn, but were tortured so much that we did not like to learn.
Education is preparation for real life. We need to learn some basic common sense and skills, we need to learn to apply what we have learned, we need to have the ability and confidence to deal with various uncertainties in the real world, we need to learn to identify real problems and try to solve them. If we have been in school for more than ten years and achieved high grades again and again, but we are getting further and further away from life, then what if we become academic masters, and being left on Mars is probably from being dumbfounded to kicking our legs.
Therefore, the exam-type academic masters are generally strong from the outside and the middle-level talents, or even gold and jade, and they are defeated, and the test-type academic masters live up to their name, only because they have achieved one thing: the unity of knowledge and action, and the application of what they have learned.
So, how to cultivate a test-type scholar?
I think, if "The Martian" is an exam for the challenge-oriented academic masters, then the usual thing to do is to take a mock exam. We design learning into different tasks, learn and apply knowledge in real scenarios, exams are a specific scenario and part of the learning process, recording what actually happens and how to respond, not pass or fail binary evaluation.
Our education should at least make it so that every educated person can face all kinds of unexpected situations, whether in a secret room or a desert, they can actively deal with them, reflect on their actions, and not wait for death and let their fate.
Since it is already on Mars, why look at Venus.
We often say that we hate less books when they are used, and the advice we often give is to read more before using them. Maybe we have overlooked something, and sometimes we are difficult to face practical problems, not only because of insufficient knowledge, but also because of our limited ability to synthesize the existing knowledge.
Therefore, it is also very important for us to connect a lot of knowledge that seems to be irrelevant to solve practical problems while reading the general knowledge. A true scholar does not need to prove himself in a certain exam. They often prove themselves again and again in practical tests with what they have learned, until they have been tested for a long time.
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