Does education in China need to be reformed? What time?

China needs an enlightenment of educational reform. Nowadays, China society seems to have fallen into some serious misunderstanding and even some fanaticism about education. Its biggest problem is to get quick success and instant benefit, and to give up the basics and go to the end, which violates the law of education. Hearing the media say that Chengdu will issue a policy to completely ban the Olympic Games, the first reaction is to applaud Chengdu. Besides, I'm not surprised that it happened in Chengdu. This is not the only thing that Chengdu dares to take the lead in education reform. Chengdu is also a pioneer in introducing classic education of traditional culture into primary schools, and it is unique among similar cities in China. As for the reason why the Olympic Mathematics is so prosperous, according to the analysis of relevant experts, there are two reasons: First, there are misunderstandings. Some educators think that the harder you study knowledge and the more topics you do, the better your students will be. Therefore, they regard Olympiad as a "very effective educational measurement tool" and an important basis for enrollment and further studies. Second, the system is misleading, such as the Olympic mathematics test-free award-winning system, which leads to the evolution of Olympic mathematics into a stepping stone for further study. The author thinks that the former is cause and the latter is effect. The former belongs to the thinking level, which is invisible and hidden; The latter belongs to the institutional level, which is visible and dominant. Therefore, the latter is relatively easy to govern, and a series of policies introduced by Chengdu are mainly aimed at the latter. But the change of the former is obviously much more difficult, and it is by no means a government ban that can work. I often feel that China needs an enlightenment of educational reform. Nowadays, China society seems to have fallen into some serious misunderstanding and even some fanaticism about education. Its biggest problem is to get quick success and instant benefit, and to give up the basics and go to the end, which violates the law of education. Lou Jin, deputy director of Chengdu Education Bureau, has a saying: "Education is an era of farming, not an era of industrialization." The farming era is characterized by spring planting and autumn harvest, which is in line with the weather. Today, thousands of parents, even kindergarten children, are eager to send their children to various extracurricular training classes at the age when they should play, regardless of their health and happiness. The day before yesterday, the author heard the conversation between two mothers on the road. One of them said that he spent a lot of money to send his children to a kindergarten just to learn something, otherwise he would have spent so much money. Another said that although his children had a summer vacation, they could attend classes from Monday to Friday, which was busier than class. These children, who are forced by their parents to learn this and that, have been deprived of childhood happiness since childhood. Psychology has proved that people who lack happiness in childhood are prone to various psychological diseases in adulthood. Not long ago, the author also saw a short article in the media, written by a senior three student who took part in the college entrance examination this year. It is said that more than 15 of the 36 students in my class chose the University of Economics and Business and the University of Technology and Business. There was a boy in the class who wanted to apply to the history department and finally changed to finance. It is said that he and his mother quarreled from 1 in the middle of the night until 5 am that night, and broke three glasses in the middle. A large number of such examples remind us: What is the purpose of education? -we say people-oriented today, so how can we achieve people-oriented What kind of education system can guarantee people-oriented? According to the UNESCO document, "education is a passport to the future." For every parent, sending their children to school for education is to have a happy future, but how to have a happy future and what is the definition of happiness can only be clarified through a social discussion-an enlightenment of educational reform. Moreover, only on this basis can there be a real breakthrough in China's education reform.