Why does "How much does an egg weigh" stump the top students? October 13, 2007 10:56 [Let me tell you a few words] [Font size: Large, Medium, Small] Source: Chongqing Morning News faced with "an egg" Almost no one of the nearly 300 middle school and college students could answer the question accurately. Liu Yeping, an associate professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a national second-level psychological counselor who conducted a micro-survey on this question, said that this actually reflects the serious shortcomings of students' emotional intelligence education. (Oriental Morning Post, October 12)

What impressed Liu Yeping the most was that a senior student majoring in physics at a certain university was stunned for a moment when faced with the question, and then replied: "5 grams.

" This answer made Liu Ye "find it incredible." The author also finds it incredible. It is said that top students majoring in physics at the university are already familiar with various laws of the universe and mechanical phenomena. How could they be stumped by the weight of an egg? But the truth is so unbearable - some students even answered 1 gram. These students obviously have no idea about the size or weight of eggs.

"Having knowledge but no common sense" is a common problem among many teenagers today, especially those in many cities. There once was a student in our unit who graduated from a prestigious university. She had excellent grades in all aspects of school and decent professional skills. However, when everyone was having dinner, she actually asked everyone a question: "Do tomatoes grow in the ground? "Grown on trees?" Everyone was surprised that graduates from prestigious universities didn't know where these vegetables they usually eat every day grew.

In fact, it’s not their fault for being ignorant. Common sense of life such as how much an egg weighs and where tomatoes grow cannot be found in books, is not taught in schools, and is not considered important by parents. Moreover, most urban children basically do not know it. Doing housework, not being in contact with nature, never being in the countryside... Children basically live in a "knowledge vacuum" environment, and naturally lack basic common sense of life.

Educators and parents only focus on instilling book knowledge, but ignore the education of social knowledge and common sense of life, resulting in children's extreme lack of basic common sense of life. The source of this educational dislocation can even be traced back to kindergarten. Nowadays, some 4- and 5-year-old children can fluently introduce themselves and greet others in English, but compared with their oral English ability, their self-care ability is almost "zero": they face the needs of shoelaces, dishes, chopsticks, clothes, etc. Do-it-yourself daily necessities will only result in shaking your head and crying helplessly.

Some education experts pointed out that in the early education stage, what children need more is common sense rather than a lot of useless knowledge. In my opinion, it is urgent to increase the content of "common sense education" in the basic education stage. If a person has no common sense, no amount of knowledge in English, physics, calligraphy, painting, computers, etc. can make them "a real person."

In order to teach students basic survival skills and cultivate their hands-on practical ability and innovative spirit, at the beginning of the new semester this year, high school students in Zhejiang Province began to learn "general technology courses". The teaching content includes repairing toilets and making stools. , changing light bulbs and other daily life technologies. From the author's understanding, it does not mean that students must master skills such as repairing toilets and changing light bulbs, but that our education department has realized that education with only book knowledge is not quality education. This change seems profound to me.