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What is the traditional concept of learning?

Based on the requirements of market economy and information age, this paper emphasizes that the core of quality education should be the education of learning methods, puts forward the concept of efficient and fast learning methods, and makes a thorough and detailed discussion on the specific contents of efficient and fast learning methods. Key words: quality education, learning methods At present, we are in an era of information explosion, the world's science and technology is developing extremely rapidly, and the international market competition is becoming increasingly fierce. How to cultivate a large number of high-quality talents has become a major issue related to the future and destiny of the country and the nation. In this regard, the author believes that the key is to develop a set of efficient and fast learning methods and promote them. This paper intends to make a detailed introduction to the achievements of the author's painstaking research over the years for the reference of like-minded people. 1. Tradition and modernity: Two fundamentally different learning concepts and methods always serve a certain purpose. Different historical periods have different learning purposes, so the corresponding learning methods are different. Under the ancient feudal system in China, the main purpose of education was to train officials at all levels, which is what Confucius said: "Learning to be excellent is to be an official". Therefore, the education system and teaching methods at that time were fundamentally determined by the feudal social and political system. As we know, the feudal state is based on the self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy, and its overall ruling goal is conservative. The feudal monarch's main consideration is not how to further develop, but how to defend the existing country. "Zhou Li": "Governing the country by six government members: First, governing the position, leveling the country, leveling the people and saving money; Second, teaching, for the sake of consolidating the country, for the sake of calming the people, for the sake of welcoming guests; Third, the duty of propriety and righteousness is to take harmony as the country, harmony as the people and worship ghosts and gods; Fourth, political posts, for serving the country, for the righteousness of all the people, gather the energy of all things; Fifth, punishment, in order to insult the country and correct everyone except thieves; Sixth, serve the country, enrich the country, support the people, and give birth to everything. " It is clear that the main goal of governing the country is to seek a peaceful and peaceful situation. Under such a general social and political strategic background, the feudal education system, whose main purpose is to train feudal officials, can only take absolute loyalty to feudal monarchs as its primary goal of talent training. Although the talents they trained also need to have certain knowledge and talents, the most important thing is their absolute loyalty to feudal monarchs. The most typical performance is to emphasize that "the monarch orders the ministers to die, and the ministers are disloyal if they don't die." The wishful thinking of feudal rulers is that as long as officials at all levels, big and small, are dead set, willing to be slaves, and honestly obey the feudal monarch, everything will be peaceful. This is embodied in the teaching methods, that is, students are not allowed to have any freedom of thought, and they can only follow the book and write articles only to "speak for the sages." Otherwise, if students are allowed to think independently, they may doubt book knowledge and even the authority of the emperor, thus endangering the stability of feudal rule. So under this feudal education system, students can only study hard. This is the first basic feature of the traditional view of learning. Once students' thoughts and personalities are bound, they will learn by rote, which is the second basic feature of the traditional learning concept: study hard, which is natural. For a long time, the traditional concept has always believed that learning depends mainly on hard work, and has left many famous sayings that have been passed down through the ages, such as "Diligence is good training, and one point of hard work is one point of talent", "As long as you work hard, the iron pestle is ground into a needle", "There are endless mountains and rivers", and so on. In addition, there are many classic stories about hard work, such as "Chuishou", which form such a "bitter" learning concept. In the final analysis, the essence of feudal slave education does not allow students to have their own independent thoughts, which does not allow students to study hard and have other efficient learning methods that make people feel happy. This is because once students are allowed to use their brains and find a happy and efficient learning method suitable for their own reality, they will gain some freedom of thought and may have some doubts about what they have learned, thus threatening the ruling authority of the emperor, which is fundamentally opposite to the essence of feudal slave education. Therefore, since the feudal education system can't give students freedom of thought in essence, they can't give students the freedom to improve their learning methods, so they can only work hard. This kind of "bitterness" is twofold. On the one hand, it is physical suffering. Because this kind of learning does not pay attention to methods, it relies entirely on rote memorization, which is extremely exhausting to people's physical and mental strength and makes people feel very tired. Secondly, it is psychological suffering, because this kind of learning does not allow individuals to think independently and has no right to think freely, which will make people feel extremely depressed and depressed. As a result of the above-mentioned hard study, the third basic feature of the traditional learning method is forced learning. Obviously, students themselves will not feel good about their studies because they study hard. They often take a negative attitude, such as being late, leaving early, truancy or truancy, cheating in exams when it's their turn, and so on. In this regard, as teachers and parents see it in their eyes, they are angry in their hearts, but there is no good way except to force it. So the ruler specially used to punish students in old private schools was invented and widely used. As for parents, they believe that "a dutiful son is born with a stick", and they often punch each other and serve with a stick. Going to school is like serving time in prison. This leads to the fourth basic feature of traditional learning methods: inefficiency. Learning is a highly complex mental activity, which requires the efficient operation of the brain. However, under the guidance of the traditional concept of learning, students have no freedom of thought at all, so they can only learn by rote, which fundamentally restricts learning efficiency and leads to students' disgust. As for the compulsion of teachers and parents, it will not only help the improvement of learning efficiency, but also enhance students' rebellious psychology. The result is that the more you learn, the less you want to learn, the more you have to force yourself to learn, and the more you force yourself to learn, the less you want to learn, forming a vicious circle. Even if a few students don't want to study hard, they just know the word "fennel" better than others, just like Kong Yiji. There are four ways to write it, and there is no real price.