However, everything involves the change of children's learning, whether it is English reference or the deletion of this ancient poem, it will cause extensive discussion. "But you can broaden your view of 300 miles by walking up a flight of stairs" and "A dangerous building is 100 feet high, so you can pick the stars with your hands" are classic and familiar. When you hear that these children will never meet again in the first grade textbooks, adults will inevitably regret it. However, there is a problem. Does the withdrawal of ancient poetry mean that thousands of years of traditional culture have been ignored, so how will it be passed down? Many netizens believe that China's ancient poems are the accumulation of thousands of years of history and culture. Children can recite good poems, which will be a permanent wealth in the future. To reduce the burden on students, we can't just reduce the thickness of textbooks.
This kind of worry is not unreasonable. If in a few years, the students in the school are at a loss about Tang poetry and Song poetry, should we feel very sad? However, there are so many ancient literary works such as ancient poems, will it really be of great help for children who have just entered primary school to recite a few? No matter how the years change, excellent literary works emerge one after another, but at least we can reach an understanding that the influence of excellent works in ancient poetry on children's literature can not be ignored. But at the same time, don't forget that these are the thoughts of adults. If adults want to realize these ideas, they should first make children interested in ancient poetry, not just relying on classroom teaching. If children can't really appreciate the exquisiteness of ancient poetry and become interested in these works that have been circulated for thousands of years, even if ancient poetry is put into textbooks, it will only become cramming teaching. On the contrary, as the teacher said in the media reports, using these ancient poems as other ways to expand reading can not achieve the ideal effect.
It's not just ancient poems that have been deleted from textbooks. According to media reports, five long and profound words in the last chapter were also deleted. The literacy of the whole textbook is reduced from about 350 to 296, and the writing volume is also reduced to 1 18. Some complicated words have also been deleted from the vocabulary. These are nothing more than "reducing the burden". In fact, it is difficult to measure which is more important, ancient poetry, literacy or writing. In that case, why cling to the fate of China's ancient stereotyped writing? On the contrary, we should worry that the school will "reduce the burden" for students and parents will bear the burden for students after class. In fact, learning more ancient poems is not the key to the inheritance of traditional culture, nor will it bring immediate "burden reduction" effect. When discussing the topic of inheriting or reducing the burden of China's ancient poems, we are likely to fall into a situation of repeated arguments but no results, just because the two sides of the debate did not put the discussion on the same premise. Assuming that everyone is not so utilitarian about the subject setting and teaching content of children, the teaching model can get rid of the shackles of exam-oriented education earlier, and it is difficult to attract the attention of so many netizens by deleting eight ancient poems.