Is the child's memorization just a means to an end? Not an end in itself?

As someone who has been there, I would like to say a few words about my own experience in memorizing articles.

Memorizing ancient texts was the main learning method for children in the past, and in ancient times there were not many other subjects to attend, that is, the ancient classics were the main focus.

So, familiarity with these classics became the best "foundation" for understanding the outside world and enhancing the height of cognition.

Nowadays, children have too much homework in their subjects ...... may not have much time to memorize these classics.

However, if you do have the time to memorize them, it will be very beneficial to "cultivate your body and family" or speech and mannerisms, essay writing ...... and so on.

My son's elementary school language teacher required him to read and recite the Four Books and Five Classics for an hour every day, and he finished memorizing the Analects of Confucius, the Middle Ages, and the University.

I have a few years of specific practice, and this matters briefly.

This teacher's idea is good, but the method is not right, it is natural to get half the result with twice the effort.

My youngest daughter started reading and memorizing the "Collection of Essential Ancient Texts for Elementary School Students" with me when she was five years old, and finished memorizing all seventy-five of them in six months. Then we recited all of them from beginning to end or from end to beginning once a week for six months.

Next, it was repeated every two weeks for another six months, and then once a month for another six months.

Then I began to explain the 75 Psalms to her, and since she was very proficient in them, she completely understood the meaning of the 75 Psalms and the related allusions and historical figures after six months, and she had already integrated many details.

So we started to read together (she reads the vertical edition of the simplified text, I read the electronic version and listen to her read, and ask questions from time to time) the Four Great Books and the Records of the Grand Historian.

She's making fast progress and often quotes the original texts in the classics in our daily conversation, sort of laughing and joking.

That's right. It is necessary to memorize the traditional classics and famous texts and phrases to the greatest extent possible and the greatest extent possible while you are young and have a good memory.

However, memorization is only a means, not an end, the purpose is to lay the foundation, paving the way, and lay the groundwork for future application and innovation.

If the memorization of literacy is not linked to the application and innovation, the two are two skins, each other in a state of separation, then to memorize literacy and "head hanging beam, cone buttocks (not "cone stabbing" error)" of the painstaking efforts to go to waste, in vain.

Parents have to adapt to local conditions, and local materials, "she reads the vertical version of the simplified original, I read the electronic version and listen to her reading, and from time to time ask questions", to guide and create the child can apply the problems learned scenarios, over time, the child can be integrated, "often in everyday casual conversation frequently quoted in the original classical phrases "The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good idea of what you are doing.

Between means and ends, logical thinking skills are inevitably needed as a linking bridge to communicate between the two shores, otherwise, the means will always be the means and the ends will always be the ends, and the two will always be far apart and will never meet. Compared to some parents who only issue instructions to memorize and memorize, and then missiles are "launched and left alone," parental tutoring is many times better.

If you want to put the icing on the cake, you can also consider taking it to the next level: cultivating and discovering children's desire for innovation, creative consciousness, and creative ability from ancient poetry.

Times are different, and the single strong point of application alone may not be able to win in the cruel competition in the future.

Not to mention that the Polytechnic University invented the world's frontier of new knowledge necessarily requires innovation and discovery power, the Whampoa Military Academy, and the Communist sages share a set of teaching materials, but the power of command but see Xuan short difference, the difference is the creative use of military doctrine learned thinking ability is different, the Communist army innovation and discovery power are superior, the national army became a prisoner of the Communist army.

Another example is that today's young people have enough inspirational chicken soup and books about human nature to study hard, "there is no first in literature, there is no second in martial arts", in the future, some of these young people are destined to become the "captives" of the other part - in any unit, the winner is the one who wins. -In any unit, there is only one winner.

At this point, the ability to discover and innovate unique tactics inspired by the classical principles of "red in white, different" has become the key to the key.

It is those who are down to do the charlatan, if a trick to use the old, no innovative ability, in addition to the silly crooked, I'm afraid others can not cheat it.

So, to live and continue to live, to live well and continue to live well, there is one thing indispensable for a while - the power of innovation and discovery!

To sum up, the ultimate goal for parents is to teach their children to memorize the classics, to reach the level of application skills, and to learn to use them, but not the final goal.

Once children have this power of innovation and discovery (relative to their peers) and are constantly touched, stimulated, and inspired to enhance this power of innovation and discovery, they will be able to overcome the brutal and fierce competition in the future, such as secondary school exams, college entrance exams, and the workplace, and will be invincible.

As long as you have a good grasp of the classics, reciting them at an early age is beneficial. It doesn't matter if you don't understand the meaning, you will understand it later.

Even if the memory is blurred in the future, it is not a hindrance. In the future, access to knowledge will be more developed and convenient than the current Internet, so you can retrieve applications and quote scriptures at any time, and then there will be a kindness of a long reunion.

Only by learning the best traditional culture can we connect with our ancestors, and only by finding our roots in 5,000 years of history can we settle our souls, liberate our bodies and minds, and achieve national rejuvenation.

Of course, elementary school students who recite the classics certainly have their necessities, but must be combined with the actual, grasp the degree, and not blindly require, a one-size-fits-all, otherwise too much is not enough, it is counterproductive.