Most people who criticize China, whether from the media, the big V or the official media, are criticizing the "English uselessness", which is a typical concept of stealing! Either my Chinese is too poor to understand, or my mind is wrong. I am blind for myself!
Who is saying that English is useless? Is it useful for you to speak French? Is German useful? Is the law useful? Is swimming useful? Is the computer useful? Is artificial intelligence useful? Word, excel and PPT are more useful than any subject in terms of popularity and practicality! Should all secondary schools offer these courses and include them in the college entrance examination?
People are talking about compulsory education and high school courses, as well as the proportion of English! People's view is that it is useless to force the whole people to learn English for more than ten years, not to say that English is useless, nor to oppose learning English! The reality is that the whole people have been forced to learn English for more than ten years. In the end, the English level of the whole people is extremely low. Most people haven't learned English for more than ten years, and they are useless except for exams! Even if people learn well, most people will not systematically do anything in English in their lives. Most of them follow you! Learning a language for exams, especially Chinese exams, completely deviates from the basic laws and logic of learning a language! Hua's theory of waste technology is a bit rough, but my understanding contains two meanings: first, most people in China have studied English for more than ten years and don't know English at all. They just take English exams and fake English, so they are waste technology; The second is that most people who have studied English for more than ten years will not need this skill in their lives, so it is a waste skill. People are limited, don't take them out of context: for most people, not everyone!
So this article is not about learning or not, but about how to learn and where to learn. Please read the article carefully before spraying!
You have the will to study abroad, you have the ideal of reading the original English, and you want to be an English professor, so study hard, and no one will stop you! There are countless channels for you to learn English well! But I just want to be a chemistry teacher and a street civil servant in college, but you won't let me go to college because my English is not good enough. Why? Growing up, I have seen many children who are not bad at math and physics. They dropped out of junior high school because of their English major, or they went to high school because of their English major and master's degree in mathematics and physics, and finally they could only go to a junior college! English is a great waste for the cultivation and screening of talents! I know someone will argue, isn't there gold everywhere? English stumped so many geniuses? Don't drink too much chicken soup. Most people are like ants under the wheel of history. Wrong social rules can easily kill an ordinary person's dream. There are not so many gold and geniuses, but mostly ordinary people who are eager to change their destiny.
In addition, foreign language, as a subject of college entrance examination, is the most likely to cause unfair education in all disciplines! Foreign language learning is different from other disciplines, and it relies heavily on educational resources. In the case that junior high school English teachers in first-tier cities are standard, the vast remote and backward areas may not even have seen foreigners themselves! This is different from mathematics and physics, which are a subject that depends on experience and understanding. The level of teachers and the quality of language environment play a decisive role in foreign language learning!
A China native, in his own country, is regarded as an uneducated person because he can't learn a foreign language well, and is deprived of the opportunity to go to college; A China native, even a writer who writes in his native language, will be called a sand sculpture by powerful people because he can't speak a foreign language, and will be surrounded by many people. What an absurd society this is!
Don't argue that math is useless. Why study? Science and language are different. Mathematics and physics, as basic disciplines, will be the foundation of many professional disciplines in the future! Language does not have this function, it is just a tool. You can use Chinese literature and science to understand Chinese, and Japanese literature and science to understand Japanese. You can't stop me from studying science in Chinese just because I don't know English! As for the science that needs English learning, give it to people with good English. Not everyone has to publish a paper on nature, not everyone has to go to the library to borrow the original, my English is not good, just look at the translator!
A basketball player in Yao Ming, how many days did he go to school? Li Na is a tennis player. How many days has she been at school? How many people in China speak English much better than them? They need English, so they will try to learn English well! On the contrary, of the hundreds of millions of China people who have studied English with them for more than ten years at school, how many can speak English with their mouths open and how many can read English literature? No, it's okay. Someone will study hard. Don't worry!
English is definitely overemphasized in compulsory education, and it can be used as an elective course or a compulsory course without examination. You can't stop people who are willing to learn, and those who are unwilling to learn can just look up simple content in the dictionary!
Junior and senior high school English should learn basic knowledge and pass basic exams like science students studying history and politics, liberal arts students studying physical chemistry, or music, art, physical education and other courses, so the requirements of the college entrance examination should not be too high! If it involves English majors, trade, diplomacy and other majors that have special requirements for English, you can ask for an additional English test in the college entrance examination! Other majors, according to discipline requirements and career planning, strengthen foreign language learning in universities! Besides English, there are many possibilities of foreign languages! Don't say it's too late, most minority students have just started to learn in college! I studied French five years after I graduated from college because I went abroad. I have studied for two or three years, and after more than ten years, my English level is finally higher than CET-6! Really clear goals need to be learned, which is not a problem at all. Especially studying in a better language environment is much better than studying for exams for many years behind closed doors. This kind of efficiency is impossible to express with twice the result with half the effort!
There are always guardians of English education who compare the practicality of English with mathematics and physics. Their view is that if English is useless, you won't learn it. How to learn math and physics when it's useless? This is a reasonable but absurd view!
The conclusion that it is useless to study mathematics, physics, history and geography is ridiculous. If you are not a physicist, you will be called a physicist. You tell the child that the switch can't be touched, and people will die. The child asks you why the flashlight touched the dead. At least you know the concept of voltage. When you teach your children to read and read "Tang Zong Song Zu, Wu Han, Qin Huang", you at least know that these are some of the most powerful emperors in China history; The child asks you why it is cold in winter and hot in summer. At least you know that the earth moves around the sun. If the child asks you, can I marry my uncle's little sister when I grow up, you should at least know that this matter is not only related to ethics, but also mainly due to genetic problems caused by inbreeding! Wait, wait, wait, there are countless! The child saw Justin Bieber singing on TV and asked what you were singing. You said I couldn't understand the foreign songs he sang. If you like listening, learn English well. This is not too shameful!
Are English and mathematics and physics, including history, politics and geography, human-level subjects? Mathematics, physics, history and political geography are all basic disciplines, which are the basis for understanding everything. English is just a foreign language, one of thousands of human languages in Qian Qian! Natural science and social science are the core content and symbolic products of human civilization, and language is only a tool to understand these civilizations. You can understand these civilizations by mastering any language, which is not at the same level at all. If you don't study basic subjects such as mathematics, physics, biology, geography, history and politics, you are illiterate, and many languages are illiterate. Where I live, there are some beggars who are fluent in English and French!
Natural science is like computer hardware, and social science is like computer software. The foreign language you know is a language for operating the interface. It is the hardware and software that ultimately determine the value of this computer. I just choose a language that I can understand in the operation interface.
Anyone who compares English with basic subjects such as mathematics, physics, history and politics is seriously lacking in basic common sense, systematic knowledge structure and basic logical thinking! I choose to ignore such a person, because with this logical thinking ability, he can't understand such a complicated article and can't explain the truth to him! English is a foreign language for us, just like most mainstream languages in the world, such as French, German and Russian. Why do some people think it is so important? In fact, there is only one reason, that is, the United States is the most powerful country in the world! With the gradual diversification of the world structure, especially the real rise of China, the status of English as an international language is being challenged more and more! I have been in Canada for many years, and many Canadian children used to choose languages such as Spanish and German to learn foreign languages. But in recent years, more and more white children have begun to learn Chinese (including Mandarin and Cantonese, mainly Mandarin), and it is a matter of great face to learn some Chinese! Among white adults, more and more people take the initiative to learn Chinese, because they think that learning Chinese will give them the opportunity to do business with China people (though this is not necessarily the case)!
I'm in Canada and America. When I meet foreigners, I will definitely speak English and French. However, as long as I return to China, I will definitely speak Chinese to foreigners first, and I really want to speak English again! This is not shameful. I come to your site and I learn your language. Why do you want me to accommodate you when you come to my site? A person in the comment area said that they are doing business in a domestic port and their English is very good. They say they often quarrel with foreigners in English. They are very proud! I said, you have studied English for more than ten years just to make foreigners scold you. Can you understand? Are you proud to scold you at your door? You are really capable, and your English is very good. You should go to an American port to do business and scold them in English there! When I meet an unreliable foreigner in China, I am definitely scolded by the country. Few people don't understand!
Therefore, Hua said that forcing everyone to learn English is a kind of self-dwarfing. Although not all right, it is not unreasonable!
Most people who speak English well, if you are not a professional English speaker, do you dare to travel abroad without an interpreter? Even in Wang Sicong, I studied in England for several years and returned to China for many years! If he is asked to represent Wanda to talk with Spain about the sale of the Spanish building (both sides use English), will he dare to go without an interpreter? Do you dare to sign a contract of several hundred million?
China people who have really lived abroad for a long time will not think English is a great thing. No matter how good you are, can you be better than foreigners? Can you show off how awesome your English is to foreigners when looking for a job? It's just a tool. The tools that everyone is using are not skills at all! It is natural that your core competitiveness and language really determine whether you develop well overseas! If you work, live and develop in China, how can you measure a person's value in English?
English is a tool, and it is a good tool. Do you think it is useful? People who use it are useful, but people who don't use it are useless! It is not a skill in itself! It's like a skilled razor, which is very useful for a skilled barber. If you want to be a chef all your life, it's very unlikely that you will cut vegetables with this razor. No matter how sophisticated and noble this razor is, it can't compare with your black iron kitchen knife!
People who really know English will not regard English as a skill, because people who know and use English, knowing English in their environment, is not a skill at all! Just like you go to Hong Kong to show off your Cantonese! For people who can't speak English, it means that they don't have to use English! English is not a skill for him. To him, English is a chef's razor, which is useless except occasionally showing off to my friends that I have a top-class razor at a high price! Only one kind of people will regard English as a skill and ability, that is, English practitioners who are mixed in a group of China people's circles, such as English training institutions and translators, and small white-collar workers in foreign companies working in China, feel that they speak English badly. In fact, all the people in the company are from China, and they can't speak English for one week a year. It is nothing more than using an English office software system, a process software that everyone knows what it means with closed eyes, and a proficient process software.
To put it bluntly, most of the English talents trained by China over the years continue to teach English to other China people in China. Over and over again, the proportion of people who really use English in practice is very small!
I have met many returnees who have studied abroad for many years. If you can't find a suitable job after returning home, you will go to a training institution to be an English teacher, no matter what your major is! Why can't you find a suitable job? Because apart from English, your professional core competitiveness is insufficient! Such people can't find a job abroad at all, so they go back to China to mix. Today, China has long passed the era of superstitious turtles, and it is just as difficult to return to China. Teaching China English is a good choice!
Some people can say that English is the most widely used language in the world. So learn! Yes, English is the most widely used language in the world, but what does this have to do with the people of China? What does the vast majority of China people have to do with international communication? You are an international language, but most of us are not international. If we can become international people, we will naturally learn English well, and they will become international people not by English, but by their skills! What does this internationalization have to do with NMET English? Is there little international exchange and cooperation between China and Germany, Japan, France and Russia? There are no talents in this field if you don't take German, Japanese, French and Russian in the college entrance examination?
If it is said that in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, or in the early days of reform and opening up, foreign language talents were extremely scarce due to long-term closed doors, then strengthening the popularization of foreign language ability of the whole people is the need for material selection! In today's highly open market economy environment, it is ridiculous to force our nationals to learn a specific foreign language! Everyone is profit-seeking. In this open and symmetrical information environment, as a tool, if English is useful, naturally many people will try their best to get a job. If you don't let him learn, he will be impatient with you! Improving people's scientific literacy and humanistic literacy is the foundation of basic education.
A foreign language cannot carry the so-called culture. Most people who speak English well can't understand English culture at all. Only your mother tongue can bring you cultural sublimation! A foreign language is to appear cultured in front of people who don't understand! There are many China people working in Canadian companies around me. Their English is very good, as fluent as their mother tongue. They are surrounded by colleagues from Canada. People have parties at Christmas and Thanksgiving and play jokes on each other. As long as China people with good English don't grow up here, you can't understand what they are saying!
Just a foreign language. For most people in China, it's really not that important. On the contrary, more and more young people can't write decent articles because they don't pay attention to Chinese learning and cultivation. Writing business letters and administrative documents is full of errors and confusing formats. Writing reports at work depends entirely on online patchwork. Writing papers at school is also a common practice. You can't write a Chinese character, but it's impossible to have a name. They are keen on online language, complaining and talking privately, and taking to the stage. If you can write well, have strong reading comprehension ability, have decent and generous self-expression ability, grasp the intentions of leaders, colleagues and customers in time and accurately, and convey your ideas to them concisely, accurately and appropriately, the article is beautifully written, well organized, meaningful, innovative and logical, and you will definitely get more opportunities in most domestic units than you can speak English!
First of all, this article does not accept refutation in Chinese. If you have any rebuttal, please use English! If you refute in Chinese, you are a bitch!
First of all, clarify a logical relationship. Is there an inevitable logical relationship between usefulness and learning? The answer must be-no!
Take the most important thing about people. Is there anyone who doesn't eat vegetables? Is it useful to eat food? You must think I'm crazy, so how many of you are going to learn farming?
You'll die if you don't eat it! You don't learn to farm such useful things! This is unreasonable! It turns out that men hunt and women collect and raise offspring. This is a matriarchal clan society. With the development of society, productive forces are constantly released into various fields, professional division of labor begins to appear, scholars, farmers and businessmen gradually form, and modern occupations are further divided. It has become a familiar society with currency as a means of transaction and cooperation as its feature. So you can eat without farming, and you can eat meat without farming!
So once again, in modern society, there is no logical relationship between usefulness and learning!
Secondly, not studying doesn't mean not understanding? The opinion is also-no!
One of the characteristics of China's discipline is systematic and theoretical study, so what is the result? You can go and have a look. Foreigners took the English test in China's college entrance examination, but the result was that they doubted life. Have you studied English here? This is an English test under the education of China. Sorry for hitting you useful theorists in the face again!
I think even if you use it, you should focus on communication first, not on preparing for the exam! If this primary goal is not achieved, then utilitarianism is basically nonsense!
Therefore, the purpose of learning is to learn for understanding, not for exams. Knowing English means knowing a language and laying a foundation for the future. You must know how to look it up in the dictionary, right? Can you use translation software? Come and go, nod yes, shake your head no, you know this?
Especially when people are young, they have a gift for language learning. We should give them a foundation and a need for thinking, and also give them an interest point. If he wants to learn, why not let him learn?
But not everyone has to do what we are doing now? Should everyone be able to read frontier literature independently? Or, you know? I don't think this is controversial. Not everyone should be asked to learn, but it is necessary to be understood.
Let's be realistic, and don't draw the pie going abroad. A few days ago, my mother came to me with skin care products to show me which one is day cream and which one is night cream. When I saw one that said "day" and the other that said "night", I told her. This is understanding, and there is no need to delve into it.
Finally, is there a logical connection between learning English and success? The answer is still no!
Many respondents show the superiority of successful people, so I would like to ask, which is better than the tramp in English-speaking countries? People speak English like thieves, but they don't become what you call upper-middle-class and successful people. What makes you think that good English is necessarily related to success? You make these homeless people feel stupid! My English is too good to succeed!
To sum up, I don't approve of English uselessness or English usefulness. Is it useful? The specific situation is analyzed in detail, but at least they have no necessary logical relationship. This is also the reason why this issue has been debated! You are doing a routine without inevitable logical relationship, but you want to get an inevitable answer!
But I am absolutely against it! China's English Education Model and Examination Model! Clear objection! English is too heavy under the current education system! Clear objection! Vested interest groups continue to collect money and public relations through English training!
I believe that with the continuous development of technology and productivity, the rise of AI technology, and the continuous progress of portable devices, God's curse on mankind under the Tower of Babel will be broken one day! All mankind can communicate in their own mother tongue without barriers! I am convinced of this!
Finally. I repeat it.
This article does not accept refutation in Chinese. If you have any rebuttal, please use English! If you refute in Chinese, you are a bitch!
I think people who ask such questions all have the same thinking problems.
9 102, should English be important? 9 102, should English rule the world? It was 9 102, and you became a foreigner?
Ridiculous and shameful!
One last question: it's been 9 102 years, why are there so many wimps who can't see the essence of western hegemony? Why do you dream of being a foreign dog?
English is a tool. People who can use it, why should everyone learn? It is really a great waste for most people in China. Studying is ok. As an elective course, it is enough for the whole people to master some basic knowledge.
People who need it don't say it, and those who don't need it really don't need to learn more.
Speaking English education wastes resources. I think these people are very insidious. . . .
Good grades, few poor English, from primary school to junior high school, to high school to university. Some people think that it is a waste of educational resources, but in fact it only represents some people with poor learning ability.
Language is a tool, and English is a tool among tools. Modern science, almost all from the west, whether speaking English is important or not, English is almost the mother tongue in European countries.
No matter what profession you are engaged in, as long as you need in-depth study, English is bound to be applied. If you need research, your English reading ability is necessary. If you want to communicate with others further, the importance is self-evident.
Don't tell me there is an interpreter. Those are limited to asking for directions, eating and greeting.
Some people like to quote everything, but their English is not good and they are also great scientists or something. Look with a magnifying glass. How many scientists are there in this society? Most of the famous scientists in China have studied abroad.
Needless to say, some entrepreneurs in high-tech companies now have poor English, and many of them are from overseas study backgrounds.
Speaking English education wastes resources. I think these people are very insidious. The country has made such great efforts to give everyone a relatively fair educational opportunity. Let ordinary families also enjoy relevant education. If English really becomes a minor, then many low-income families may give up relevant education, which will lead to the elimination of opportunities to become high-end talents in the future, resulting in poor social mobility and class solidification. This is by no means alarmist!
Around me, all well-educated families or well-off families put English education in a very important position. It is normal to have pet in primary school, and some have fce.
Language is not everything, but language is the boundary of knowledge. If you master it, you can stand on the shoulders of giants and go further.
In China, learning English has become an industry. How many interest chains will be generated during this period, and how many people in this interest chain are rich? It is useless for you to speak English at this time, which will make people in this interest chain jump up and fight hard with you.
To tell the truth, 90% of children who use English in primary schools stop using English after leaving school. A few years later, English was returned to school, wasting a lot of time, energy and money to learn English. Finally, nothing is needed. How many people can study abroad and how many people need English materials is very few. For this small group of people, let's learn English in an all-round way, starting from kindergarten. Is it worth it? A child can't even speak his mother tongue. You let him learn English. When he grows up, he speaks half Chinese and half foreign languages. That's disgusting. How much do children who grew up reading foreign languages agree with our traditional culture? Learning English should be studied, but it is not necessary. Must be studied by all! This is morbid,
First of all, I think this has little to do with the times. There will always be different views on one thing. Some people don't need English in their careers, so they will find English useless. Some people need to use English in their careers, so these people will think English is very important. Some people with better economic conditions will choose to travel abroad, thinking that English is very important and can help them communicate. There are also some people who do academic work, and some advanced technologies are still in the hands of western countries, so they need to read a lot of English documents, which is helpful to their schools.
However, when educating the next generation of children, they will be exposed to English from an early age and master the language of daily communication.
Educators, calling animals, you should also trace the direction of others' flowers and plants, regardless of the left. Didn't he learn composition judgment in primary and secondary schools? This level is not as good as a primary school student. You still have foreign literature? People who are short-circuited will say that it is useless. In fact, they just don't want compulsory learning for all! Don't go beyond your mother tongue! A little too much. It's time to cool down Don't be too extreme, understand? Want to study is your freedom and right, you can study 24 hours without rest! If you are not satisfied, you can immigrate to Europe and America directly, so you can study better and show your advantages! Serve them directly for a generation, and don't come back to disgust everyone. Be careful not to delay your study and English fluency! Whether it is possible or not.
Whoever steals the concept will die of AIDS and syphilis!
It's 9 102, and you still use such a stupid and shameless smear technique, which shows that something flatters English!
Once again, since China, all the voices against English have criticized that the proportion of English in China's school education and social qualification evaluation is extremely high, which excessively consumes people's time and energy and suppresses the personality development of professional knowledge talents.
Learning English is necessary, but excessive learning English is harmful to China society. Public resources should only provide basic learning, so that people in need can choose to study in depth!
Give most ordinary people who don't need English the right not to continue to learn English in depth!
We don't pursue international cooperation in scientific research, and we don't dream of traveling to Europe and America. We just want to concentrate on building roads, bridges, houses, processing parts, planting trees, pollution control, maintenance, transporting people, breeding, growing grain, driving excavators ... is that okay?
Is English useful? Is it necessary for the whole people to study or the college entrance examination?
These are two questions. Others, for example, you can only get the undergraduate diploma after passing CET-4, and you can only go to graduate school after passing CET-6, which can be classified as the latter problem.
I have a master's degree, and I have seen good students with strong ability get stuck in CET-4 and CET-6. In fact, it is a bit ridiculous for a person with great ability to get stuck in English. In fact, it's not that he doesn't understand English literature. Just slow down. Just Chinese scientific literature will be finished soon. I just don't want to learn English.
Is English useful anyway? Of course it's useful, but learning English doesn't require time and energy. The higher your standard, the more time and energy you need to invest. Is it worth it? I'm afraid it's not worth it for most people As long as you do a small survey around you, you will know how many people think it is worthwhile and how many people think it is not.
I think it's better to give every student a chance to choose. As long as they pass a relatively simple basic English exam, they can have two chances every year, usually in grade three or grade one, or they can pass ahead of time. Those who fail in the exam can retake the exam, and those who pass the exam have a chance to enter the college entrance examination. College entrance examination related majors require college entrance examination English, and others do not need to be tested. In this way, everyone's energy will not be occupied too much by English, and students who are determined to major in English will not be useless.
As for going to college, give the right to ask for English study to the university teacher. After all, they should be more experienced in this major.
In a word, people's energy is limited, and their professional ability is stronger than their English ability. English is useful, but it is divided into different majors. Besides, after learning English, you can learn it again when you really need it. No big deal.