Secret 1: Three Characteristics of Top Scholars
Professor Wang believes that the success of the top scholar is the unity of inevitability and contingency. After interviewing more than 400 top provincial scholars face to face and one to one, he also summed up their uniqueness.
* * * Gender 1: All-round development in morality, intelligence and physique with high comprehensive quality.
1999 after the reform of college entrance examination, top students are the product of quality education. Professor Wang has always stressed that the top students after the college entrance examination reform have all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique, and their comprehensive quality is very high.
* * * Sex 2: Good psychological quality.
Professor Wang said: "Good psychological quality is the key to the success of the top scholar. The champions have sunshine and dialectical psychology. " Professor Wang gave an example: Li Jiangyan, the champion of liberal arts in Jiangxi Province in 2009, was the last in the final exam of senior three. However, Li Jiangyan has not been hit by this, and her mentality is particularly good. She thinks it is gratifying to do well in the exam at ordinary times, and she should be glad to do badly in the exam at ordinary times. This is dialectical psychology, which treats the gains and losses of exams with a dialectical attitude.
* * * Sex 3: Versatile.
Professor Wang's interviews for many years have found that most of the top candidates in the college entrance examination are versatile. Some of them love singing, some love dancing and some love painting. Moreover, most of the science champions have won prizes in mathematics and physics competitions; Most liberal arts students are the backbone of the student union and have won numerous awards in speech contests and essay competitions. These champions can take exams and compete, which can be described as all-rounders.
Secret 2: the "successful formula of college entrance examination" of the champion
Professor Wang summed up the successful experience of top scholars and put forward the formula of success in college entrance examination: success in college entrance examination is about equal to "strength+mentality".
"Strength" is a scientific and cultural quality, and "mentality" is a psychological quality. Both are very important and indispensable. However, teachers and parents often attach importance to "hardware" (examinee's strength) and ignore "software" (examinee's mentality).
Professor Wang found in the interview that it is not a dream for candidates to improve their college entrance examination scores by 50~ 100. Professor Wang gave an example. In 2002, Lu Chengyuan, the champion of Beijing College Entrance Examination, scored 598 points in the first model, 604 points in the second model and 704 points in the college entrance examination. Lu Chengyuan said to Professor Wang, "My parents don't exert pressure, and I have a good attitude. The easier the exam, the smoother the exam. "
Professor Wang also gave a negative example: if you have a bad attitude, you may get 0! A candidate usually gets good grades, his brain is not good during the college entrance examination, and his hands are shaking all the time when answering questions; Others are writing, but he is "repairing". This is a typical symptom of writing spasm caused by anxiety. Lu Chengyuan once said that he also had this symptom when answering questions in the college entrance examination, but later he returned to normal because of his mentality adjustment.
Secret 3: the secret of cultivating the top student in the college entrance examination.
Secret 1: It is more important to teach children to be a man than to be the first in the exam.
Many parents focus on improving their children's academic performance and tell them to study hard every day and strive for high marks. However, many top candidates in the college entrance examination interviewed by Professor Wang said that their parents think that being a person is more important than grades.
Secret 2: Parents' tough character has an example.
The survey found that most of the parents of the champion were not well educated. According to Professor Wang's analysis of the parents of the champion, 60%~70% of the parents of the champion are workers, farmers and drivers. He gave a typical example: from 65438 to 0999, Chen Chunxian, the top liberal arts scholar in Zhejiang Province, had a father with a fourth-grade education and a mother who could not read, but they were all very hardworking and brave and always faced difficulties with perseverance. Under the example of his parents, Chen Chunxian studied very hard and faced difficulties bravely, and finally realized his dream of being admitted to Peking University.
Secret 3: Most parents who win the first prize are enthusiastic, understanding and democratic.
Professor Wang compiled 1800 psychological scale of parental rearing patterns, and found that there are four main types of parental rearing patterns.
Overprotective type accounts for about 30%. A postgraduate candidate (Weibo) also made a joke, because he couldn't find a postgraduate classroom, so he took a taxi home to find his mother. All this is the result of parents giving everything for their children.
Overregulation accounts for about 30%. These parents make their children listen to their parents' instructions by drawing the ground as a prison.
The heavy penalty type accounts for about 10%. These parents beat and scold their children. Relevant research shows that severe punishment education can easily lead children to the extreme of Nuo Nuo doctrine-Nuo Nuo-only or arrogance.
About 30% people are enthusiastic, understanding and democratic. The relationship between these children and their parents is mutual respect and equality, and children and their parents have become friends. In the interview, Professor Wang found that among the top students in 15 in 2009, there were 14 top students with warm, understanding and democratic education methods.
Tip 4: Trust your child and don't add pressure to your study.
In the follow-up study, Professor Wang found that many parents who won the first prize paid little attention to their children's study even after they entered junior high school. Trust children very much, don't put pressure on them, and let nature take its course. However, the parents of these top scholars often attach great importance to letting their children form good habits from an early age and improve the quality and efficiency of autonomous learning.
Famous point of view:
The high score of the top scholar is the result of quality education, which can be used for reference.
Many people think that the number one in the college entrance examination has not played a leading role after decades. Professor Wang thinks this view is biased. He said that statistical methods should be used to analyze the achievements of the top scholar in the past decades. From the perspective of proportion, the proportion of top scholars who have made achievements after decades is still very high.
Professor Wang has kept in touch with top scholars for many years. Professor Wang found in the interview that the quality of the top candidates in the college entrance examination is still very high, and most of them can enter the first echelon in Tsinghua Peking University. After graduation, most people go abroad or stay in school for postgraduate study.
"The top scholar in the college entrance examination is a nerd with high scores and low energy, which is the product of exam-oriented education. This is also a misunderstanding." Professor Wang pointed out that the first place in the college entrance examination after 1999 is the result of quality education in China. They meet the goal of quality education and are outstanding representatives of high scores. Top scholars do have a lot of their own experience, and they have a lot to learn and learn from.