Zhu Faliang, former director of the Psychological Research Office of the Central Institute of Education and an expert who has been engaged in brain psychology research for many years, believes that students' excellent academic performance can not be achieved by rote memorization or any "magic" memory method. Although performance is related to memory, memory does not play a decisive role. Some mnemonics may be useful to achieve a certain goal, such as suddenly mastering a certain number of foreign language words. However, as far as the school education goal is concerned, it is one-sided and is not conducive to the all-round development of students. He told reporters that the "left-right brain division theory" put forward in brain science research was obtained from epileptic patients who had undergone corpus callosum incision, and should not be applied to normal students without ignoring the experimental conditions. He pointed out that some advertisements advocate that reciting can "develop the right brain", which lacks scientific basis.
Jiang Zhifeng, an associate researcher at the Center for Basic Curriculum Research of the Central Institute of Education and an expert who has been engaged in brain development research for a long time, said: There is no denying that some memory methods, such as image memory and cognitive strategy memory, are helpful to improve short-term memory. However, these methods have certain limitations, and most of them show personalized characteristics, which are not suitable for groups and may be more suitable for people who cram for the Buddha's feet temporarily.
Jiang Zhifeng believes that one method may be suitable for one child, but it may not be suitable for another. Parents should consciously guide their children to find one or more learning methods that they like and are most suitable from a variety of learning methods, and by using this method, children can enjoy learning and study hard, and forcing them to learn a certain method may be counterproductive.
Zhang, director of the Curriculum Teaching and Research Department of the Central Institute of Education, said: At present, the ongoing new curriculum reform in China explicitly opposes taking students as the repository of curriculum knowledge, and unilaterally emphasizes students' recitation and memory of curriculum knowledge, so as to avoid suppressing students' innovative consciousness and spiritual thinking. Therefore, when teachers and parents treat some training programs, they should understand the students' learning situation and make choices according to different characteristics. He pointed out that it is "impossible" to go to Tsinghua, Peking University and other famous schools only by violating educational laws without the guidance of correct educational ideas.
Comrades from the Basic Department of the Ministry of Education pointed out that recently, many businesses have taken advantage of their parents' psychology of "looking forward to their children's success" to hold memorization training courses or crash courses for the purpose of making profits, or to print books and audio-visual materials in this field. For primary and secondary school students, "improving their academic performance quickly" and "calmly coping with exams" are the selling points, and the main purpose is to promote products. Some "quick memorization methods" encourage students to be whimsical, and the more absurd and bizarre the better. So there are many unimportant places in the book, which will mislead learners and affect normal thinking and judgment. Parents and students' desire to improve their academic performance is understandable, but they must make objective analysis and rational judgment, and do not blindly follow. He also pointed out that primary and secondary schools have normal education and teaching arrangements, and education departments and schools cannot organize students to participate in similar activities, let alone sell or force students to buy similar products.