英语教学【3】英语基础阶段

Marvin
4 min readAug 13, 2018

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对于所有的基础教育,我都有一个比较强的执念,就是说子女教育的成功与否,是完全取决于父母的,父母是否能够提供足够的经济基础帮助子女求学,父母是否能够以身作则的对子女进行表率,都直接决定了子女教育是否能够成功,就拿英语来说,大部分的父母恐怕都没有刻意在家用英语和子女对话,就很难让子女获得充分的英语基础教育

有一次在电梯上,我遇到一对夫妇和他们的女儿,女儿说普通话,父亲回答的普通话;女儿说英语,父亲回答的英语;女儿说日语,父亲回答的日语;女儿说上海话,父亲就回答的上海话;在那个短短的几分钟,我就一下子意识到了这个5–6岁的小女孩子,所受到的基础教育,一定已经超越了她不少的同龄人

我曾经的一个创业合伙人,两个女儿都在国际学校,因为常年和外国小朋友在一起,所以英语能力会比中文强,尤其是要进行激烈表达的时候(比如争论、吵架),就没有办法用中文阐述,她们的老妈英语很好所以能协调和沟通,她们的老爹就比较捉急,索性也开始用起了扇贝开始学单词,我想着这些在最优秀环境中成长起来的下一代,以后不知道会是什么模样~

在读 Peter Drucker 的 Adventures of a Bystander 的时候,有一段是关于我偶像 Michael Polanyi 的描述:

The couple had five children: two boys, Otto and Adolph; one girl, Mousie (she must have had another name but no one ever heard it or used it); then two more boys, Karl and Michael. As soon as each of the children reached school age, he or she was taken to a castle their father had bought for them in the middle of an enormous wheat plantation miles from the nearest town. There the children were educated in strict isolation, without contact with anyone, especially not with other children. They saw only their tutors, one English, one Swiss-French, one Swiss-German, one Hungarian; each tutor teaching one child a week in turn. Their father was bringing them up according to Rousseau’s precepts in Émile, which demand complete isolation from the hypocrisy and corruption of society. He also tried to emulate the education James Mill had given to his son, John Stuart Mill, and indeed to improve on it. Surprisingly, none of the children turned into an idiot, but they did turn out different and unusual.

之前听 Shinzen Young 在播客里面谈到他自己的成长经历,他年轻的时候醉心日本文化和禅学,在不断求学的过程中,一路追索到了印度文化,于是他父亲就给他找了一个梵文私人教师,听到这里的时候,我一下子感受到了犹太民族对于教育的理念,确实是遥遥领先于世界上的其他民族的,这种具备了经济基础和认知基础的教育理念,是其他民族需要学习的

总而言之,英语教学的基础阶段,别的办法都是死办法,父母的言传身教,足够的经济基础,才是所有成就的基础,父母不仅仅要具备足够的英语交流能力,而且需要确信自己的英语交流是准确而且高质量的~

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