China's traditional education and teaching practices which hinder the development of students' creative thinking

1. Stale teaching can not keep pace with the times

In the traditional teaching, teachers teach more than ask, students more "accept" less "thinking", manifested in "full irrigation" and "injection" form of teaching, even if there are a small number of problems, only the teacher puts forward the problem, and the students are not able to think about it. "and" injection "form of teaching, even if there is a small part of the problem, but also only the teacher to raise questions, students passive answer questions, rather than heuristic to provide students with a problematic situation; or students to raise questions, the teacher to answer the question, but not to provide students with their own solutions to the problem. The teachers do not provide students with the means and opportunities to solve the problems by themselves. Therefore, there is Dr. Yang Zhenning's assessment: the biggest difference between Chinese students and American students is that Chinese students are not good at asking questions, not willing to ask questions. Imagine what a terrible prospect it would be if Chinese education produced a group of students who were busy accepting knowledge without thinking. This produces the quality education and innovation education emphasized by today's education sector. Therefore, change the concept of education, cultivate students' creative thinking is crucial, must cause the majority of teachers attach great importance to and put into practice in the process of education.

2. Neglect the protection and cultivation of students' individuality

For a long time, our classroom teaching by the influence of traditional culture, adult-oriented, knowledge-based mainstream, emphasizing the strict discipline, focusing on the pace of consistency, uniformity of requirements; students, such as treading on thin ice, fear and trembling. From the "preaching, teaching, solving problems", the education stage is rarely seen a lively and lovely face. Learning in this classroom, undoubtedly a thousand people, passive acceptance, loss of self-expression, loss of personality. According to the survey, Chinese students and European and American students, Chinese students of the written ability to answer the stronger, more balanced development of various disciplines, while the hands-on ability to adapt to the ability to be significantly weaker. This is the result of the traditional education neglected to cultivate students' personalities and specialties.

3. Emphasis on intellectual factors and ignore non-intellectual factors

Now many teachers and parents are increasingly focusing on cultivating students "non-intellectual factors". Attention to children's environmental education, because from home and abroad on the youth of a large number of intelligence test results show that: intellectual excellence and extraordinary and intellectual edge and backward people are only a few, and most people's intelligence level is similar, this is an indisputable fact. And from a large number of investigations and analysis further shows: students' academic performance, and its IQ has a certain degree of relevance, but at the same level of intelligence, emotion, will, character and other non-intellectual factors play a decisive role, we should strive to cultivate students' good will quality. Psychologists believe that the will is to consciously determine the purpose, and according to the purpose to dominate, regulate their own actions, overcome various difficulties, so as to achieve the purpose of the psychological activities. Human action is mainly conscious, purposeful action, in the course of these actions, not only aware of their own needs and purposes, but also dominate their own actions to achieve the intended purpose. Will is expressed in such practical actions. A great man said: "The character of a person is not only in what he does, but also in how he does it." Positive character traits, such as diligence, perseverance, self-confidence, modesty, meticulous, enterprising, inquisitive, etc. to promote learning; and negative character traits, such as laziness, timidity, inferiority complex, pride, carelessness, resting on the status quo, sticking to the old ways and so on, will impede the progress of learning. However, character is formed and developed in the process of positive interaction between people and the living environment; for students, the living environment that makes his character formation is first of all his family. The family's economic situation, cultural level, family relationships, especially the parents' attitudes, words and deeds, have a direct impact on the formation of this or that character trait.

4. Single classroom structure

Traditional classroom teaching is mostly in the form of "teachers speak, students listen". The shortcomings of this form, Mr. Ye Shengtao once made a very pertinent analysis: "classroom teaching is a relationship between speaking and listening, the teacher is of course the protagonist, the students are only in the position of the audience, even if the occasional raise their hands to answer a question, but only a supporting role. It is easy for students to listen or not to listen. However, thinking about the consequences, it may be very bad. Will the students get used to the teacher's lectures? Become inseparable from the teacher forever? So, Ye went on to put forward "'teaching' is to achieve the use of 'teaching'" this famous assertion, and encourage us teachers "toward such a good realm of effort. The first is that the first time a person is in a position to do so, he or she will be able to do so.

In order to achieve "such a good state", it is necessary to study the process of classroom teaching and optimize the teaching structure. It is necessary to break away from the norm and bring students into the society and nature in a multi-classroom mode of teaching. In this way, students' creativity can be fully realized.

5. Students' habits are y rooted

Mr. Ye Shengtao once said: "What is education, a simple sentence, is to develop good learning habits." For a long time, people in the education and teaching tend to emphasize on the inculcation of knowledge, ignoring the cultivation of learning emotions and learning habits. Teachers, parents always want their children to get more knowledge, but often only care about how much children learn, regardless of how children learn, and gradually make a lot of children because of overloaded learning tasks, cognitive training is too much since childhood to produce an aversion to learning. That is to say, the thinking is fixed in the traditional single correct conclusion, if the students only habit and do not cultivate good habits, it is impossible to become a creative talent.