Yidian Comic Review | Environmental education should not be a "burdensome" task
2024-08-17
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Commentator Kong Yutong Painting Xu Jin
Some schools require students to hand in empty milk cartons and empty pen refills as "environmental education" homework, and some even link it to performance appraisals, which has led to the hot sales of these waste products online. Recently, a report in "The New York Times" sparked widespread heated discussion.
Education does need a carrier. Homework is a carrier of "practice" and "thinking"; test scores are a carrier of "learning outcomes"; neatly folded and stacked milk cartons are used as proof of "having recycling awareness and behavior after drinking milk"; using pen refills without ink has become a symbol of "saving", "environmental protection" and even "hard work".
However, when choosing a "carrier" and "method", we must also consider the actual effect and whether it is truly universal. When using "empty milk cartons" as an "environmental protection operation", we should consider whether some families do not drink milk or some children are not suitable for drinking milk at all. When linking empty pen refills with performance evaluation, we should also consider whether it will lead to non-use consumption and waste. Some parents will even buy a large number of used pen refills to help their children complete tasks.
No matter how good the original intention of education is, it should not lead to formalism and "fake" educational results. Not only will it waste resources, but the atmosphere it creates will also cause considerable "harm" to children.
If we want to truly cultivate young people's environmental awareness and habits, we might as well get rid of those easy-to-quantify, convenient-to-promote, but rigid and limited forms, and give children more space to truly understand and approach environmental protection and participate in innovation. Whether it is learning to transform old things, reducing the use of disposable items, or promoting the recycling and reuse of reusable materials, there is no standard answer. The environmental protection class ultimately requires more benign and proactive participation, rather than a "burden-like" task, a competition for "excellence", and repeated "in name only" internal competition.
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