Original title: Who should be hit on young people reading the missing board
In a civilized era, especially in a society with rapid development of education and culture, reading was originally a thing that accompanied the growth of children and accompanied the lives of adults. Just like our daily meal, it has become a common way of life. Adolescents are the future of a society, and their reading status indicates to a certain extent the degree of civilization and ideological thickness of a nation in the future.
However, according to the latest data from the 10th National Reading Survey of the National People’s Reading Survey released by the China Press and Publication Research Institute, the reading rate of books by minors aged 0-17 is 77.0%, a decrease from 2011. The per capita book reading volume of minors It is also lower than in 2011. Many young “office workers” said that they are usually busy with work and do not have time to read; and many teenagers interviewed frankly said that too many tutoring classes, heavy schoolwork, and lack of time are the main reasons for the decline in reading.
The author believes that children who do not read and do not read classics cannot simply hit the children. How can creators and publishers launch better books, how the whole society can create a better reading atmosphere, and how parents can better guide their children. Reading habits and how the school guides children in more effective reading methods are the fundamentals that promote the return of reading habits in a society. The author recommends:
First of all, we must provide young people with rich and valuable spiritual food. For young people to study well, more support is needed, such as the visible management of public reading, the recommendation of good books and new books, and the development of public reading activities. This requires our writers and publishing departments, in an attitude of being responsible for the nation and the country, to produce more works that are popular among young people. However, when we walked into the bookstore, we found a lot of supplementary reading materials. Various books on success, marketing, black science, and health preservation were very popular, while classic readings and books loved by teenagers were rare. It’s hard for clever women to cook without rice, so it’s no wonder that children don’t like reading.
Second, it is necessary to enrich the atmosphere of reading in the whole society. Reading is not only a personal hobby, but also a public aspiration and a common need of the whole society. The government can build more libraries, hold more reading competitions, carry out more community reading activities, launch scholarly campuses, scholarly families, scholarly society selections, etc., to make the reading atmosphere thicker, so that young people will be immersed in their ears and eyes, and they will be immersed in a strong book fragrance. Through thick, warm, and in-depth cultural reading, we can cultivate well-educated people. However, if the times are impetuous, the Chinese are eager for quick success and instant benefits, the theory of “reading is useless” prevails, and adults are trapped in a state of “busy”, “blind” and “lost” all day long, what effect will be produced even if the emphasis is on youth reading?
Third, we must create a family environment where parents and children can read together. Parents are their children’s first teachers. They should use their own role models to give their children a positive example of reading. For example, they can read books with their children, reward them with books as prizes, and take their children to the library to experience the greatness of Book Mountain. Dilute the utilitarian requirements for children, reduce the pressure on their grades, let them have a calm reading mood, a comfortable reading environment, and a tireless motivation to read. Reading is regarded as a kind of pleasing, beautiful and elegant, full of tranquility, and incomparable. Cheerful taste, an unintentional spiritual pursuit. However, if the parents are only looking forward to the scores, forcing their children to carry lights on the night to trek through the mountains and seas, and run around in this hobby class and the Olympiad class on weekends, the children are like “ascetics”, how can they have time to read their favorite classic books?
Fourth, it is necessary to reduce burdens and increase efficiency so that young people have time to read and master scientific methods of reading. Only teachers who love to read can teach students who love to read. Under the test-oriented education, the schoolbags of primary and middle school students are getting heavier and heavier. Open the schoolbags. In addition to textbooks, they are teaching supplementary books. Even extracurricular readings are mostly popular reading materials such as Japanese anime. However, there are few Chinese and foreign classics. Enter the “Dharma Eyes” of children. But if you are in school, you have to struggle with endless exercises in reading, and you have to struggle with various remote controls when you get out of school. Chinese teaching is completely caught in the embarrassment of what to teach and what to test. Teachers do not have the guidance of reading methods and downplay the intensity of composition teaching. Teenagers have no time to read and no way to read. How can they read?
Education must allow young people to study hard. This is the answer to “what kind of people should be cultivated” in school education.
(The author is a teacher of Bilingual Experimental Primary School in Xuecheng District, Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province)
Wang Wei Source: China Youth Daily
Version 05 on August 23, 2021