Health is 1, and everything else is 0.
Xinhua News Agency, Nanjing, April 28th: let’s start from the health of teenagers
Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Hengzhi
the 13th meeting of the Central Comprehensive Deepening Reform Commission held on 27th deliberated and approved “on deepening the integration of sports and education to promote the healthy development of teenagers opinion, emphasize to establish the educational concept of health first. Health is placed on the most important position of education, which fully reflects the Party and the country’s attention to the health problems of teenagers, and also reflects that there are still some problems in our current education, it is necessary to further unify thoughts, reach consensus, start from the health of teenagers, and cultivate the future pillars of sound personality and physique for the country and society.
In recent years, in our education system, the role of physical education is being paid more and more attention. Physical education is no longer occupied in large quantities and children have the opportunity to participate in more sports, from parents to principals, from schools to education departments, a consensus is gradually formed that physical education is an indispensable part of education. A hundred years ago, Mr. Cai Yuanpei’s educational proposition of “complete personality, first in Sports” was obviously still out of date and lasting for a long time, which was engraved into the hearts of many principals.
But what we should also see is that although the importance of sports has been emphasized over and over again, relevant documents have also been sent one after another, the physical quality of children is still not optimistic, physical monitoring shows that the obesity rate and myopia rate are still very high. As children grow older and their studies increase, sports will still become the object of “sacrifice” and can be used in primary schools, there are still not enough children who have been insisting on relatively complicated physical skills training in the 12-year study career of middle school. Obviously, there is still a certain gap between the goal that we have always advocated to let every child master one or two sports skills and develop the habit of physical exercise when graduation.
Of course, education is a long-term systematic project, and it is unrealistic to expect short-term success overnight. Therefore, we need to strengthen our understanding and unify our consensus, which is to put children’s health first. Mr. Cai Yuanpei once said: “It is necessary for sports to practice morality, declare the country and fulfill the duty of life.” Obviously, this is exactly the logic we have been talking about. Health is 1, and everything else is 0. Without this 1, it is as small as personal life, family happiness, and career ambition, social responsibility and family responsibility are difficult to exert themselves.
At the education level, the important way to realize 1 is sports. From this perspective, I am afraid that it is impossible to advocate the importance of sports. Liang Qichao shouted that “a strong young man is a strong country”. To achieve this goal, let our children be healthy first.