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Philosopher & Director of Education Bureau of Hainan Province, China

Q: School uniform has uniformity. With the uniform system unchanged, what kind of diversity do you think school uniforms can display?

A: Uniform is unified for a certain group. For example, for a school, it is unified, but for the entire society, it is special. (Change the reference?) From a philosophical point of view, everything has two aspects of unity of opposites. As the ancient Chinese said: good fortune is nothing but disaster. In fact, one thing has two aspects of unity of opposites. The school uniforms you are talking about, you want to highlight your personality when you are unified. As clothes, you must be beautiful. Different aesthetics and different people have different understandings of beauty. From another perspective, what group is he for? For example, for different cultural groups, the connotations they want to show are different. So diversity is a manifestation of individuality, that is, particularity. But the particularity is also relative, it needs to talk about a certain reference object. If you want to play to the extreme, diversity must reflect the connotation. To be different from others, to experience his particularity. Take a look at the Marxist methodology. You can study the method of dialectical thinking.

Principal of Beijing Zhongshan Primary School

Q: How do you increase the diversity of school uniforms without changing the system? How do you think about this problem?

A: Students all over the world wear school uniforms. Japanese school uniforms are strict. The United States advocates freedom. It not only makes school uniforms more uniform and more collective, and avoids comparison among students, but the diversity of school uniforms really still needs to be studied. It’s okay to develop into a uniform system in middle schools, but it’s not ideal to develop into a uniform system in primary schools. Because the child’s growth and development speed is too fast, the child will not be able to wear it next year or even the second half of the year. We are also finding the new method to let the children like it, but also to ensure that the children can still wear it when they grow up, adding a little bit of wear resistance, and not all sportswear. This is the problem we face.

Q: What do you think is the maximum budget that parents can accept?

A: At present, our school uniforms cost more than 200 RMB, which is acceptable to parents. We must require pure cotton, and the child must be comfortable to wear. In fact, it’s okay to be more expensive, but I think it’s meaningless if it’s too expensive, because you want to ban comparisons, and it doesn’t make sense to make the school uniforms so expensive. The difference between our school uniform and other schools is that boys and girls in other schools are all the same color, which I firmly oppose. Boys and girls must be distinguished by color, and color is used to distinguish gender.

I originally wanted to have clothes for different occasions, such as dresses, sportswear, normal clothes, etc., but there are many things including what I think and what you think of, which are difficult to achieve. For example, it’s only half an hour after class. It’s a big hassle to change clothes. I also hope that each sports team will have their own clothes. That is also a manifestation of a sense of honor, but he is really too Hard to achieve.

Because no one in China does this now, our school uniforms are all designed by our school’s art teacher, because it costs too much to hire a designer. Let’s copy some styles of clothes.

Q: Where do you think diversity can go?

A: I think clothing is a kind of cycle, and it may develop in a more fashionable direction. I think this is also a way of thinking.

Q: I saw many schools want to add elements of Hanfu, that is elements of ancient school uniforms, do you think it is feasible?

A: Not feasible and inconvenient. People today are different from the ancients. not realistic

Q: Can the school uniform system be changed?

A: It can’t be changed. It is impossible for ten or twenty years. Because as long as the school group is there, the school uniform should accompany it, because the school uniform is part of the school. During the epidemic, it has been proved that students need to communicate with their classmates, so as long as the school is still there, the school uniform will definitely exist.

Diversity is not fragmentation, unity is the inevitable requirement of diversity

Flute solos and piano solos do not require a live conductor. A symphony cannot be performed without a conductor. The conductor of a symphony is much more famous than the first violinist. I have been to the conservatory for many times for research, and I am afraid that they play their own tune and sing their own songs in their spare time. The noise is unbearable. Unity is order. The guard of honor of several hundred people is more and more fascinating to watch, because it is commanded by someone. Whether nine dragons control water or eight dragons control water, dragons cannot be without a head. Governing the country and society is more complicated than bands, honor guards and dragons. East, west, north and south, industry, agriculture and commerce, science, education, culture and health, blood, marriage, geography, and now add a net edge, all need to unify. The three armed forces can not be without shuai, disorder is chaos, not unity is scattered. For a country, disorder is civil strife, civil war. Isn’t it? Now and then we still hear the guns and guns of civil wars in some countries. One of the reasons why Britain’s “Brexit” has turned into “brexit” is that different countries are acting as they please and have different commands. Diversity is the material basis and prerequisite for the formation of unity. Unity is the fusion body, adhesive and ballast of diversity, and unity is the axis and soul of diversity. Unity is the necessity of social stability, unity, harmony, innovation and development. Diversity and unity together, friends all over the world, invincible.

Reunification does not mean the elimination of diversity, but the respect and tolerance of diversity

Reunification is not about reducing or eliminating diversity. On the contrary, it is about respecting, accommodating, protecting and promoting diversity. Diversity is difference, difference is contradiction, and contradiction is inexhaustible driving force. Diversity is balance in itself, a balance that complements and restricts each other. Unity on the basis of diversity is noble and valuable. Unification means unification in rules, unification by rules, and unification by rules that reflect the interests of the greatest number of people. Commonality resides in individuality. Unification is a speech by all, not a speech by all. Unification means opening up the way of speech, not blocking it. Unification, great unification, to put it bluntly, is unified in the sea, unified to do not refuse the trickle, can be a hundred rivers of the “sea”. Unification is a grand stage for diversity. “Diversity, unity, more diversity, unity again, and more diversity,” to infinity, spiraling upward, moving forward in waves. This is the universal law of unity of diversity.

The duality of diversity should be fully recognized

Nowadays, some people tend to “walk a straight line” when talking about diversity, only talking about the “advantages” and not the “disadvantages”. Although the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, the disadvantages must be mentioned. Diversity is beauty and wealth, but we should see the beauty and weakness, and there is poverty in wealth. Globalization is the general trend, but there is “anti-globalization” in globalization. There are many losers among the rebels. The losers are men too. See through this kind of opposition, it is necessary to pay attention to the loser, the weak cultivation, placement, so that the less inverse, not inverse. Network is a big trend, but there are hackers in the network, in the “nationwide broadcast” there are inevitably infringers, network crimes, and “network disease”. This requires that we attach importance to legislation and establish network law. The proportion of AI in the economy is one of the indicators to measure social progress, but attention should be paid to eliminating the FEAR of AI that occurs in some people. In the face of phobias, we should make it clear that “no artificial, not intelligent”, and make it clear that “intelligent” does not leave people, its own place. Cell phones are a good thing. But how dangerous it is for a driver to hold a phone while driving! What should students do if they don’t listen to their teachers all day? There are no rules and no standards. To deal with the interwoven relationship between diversity, regulations are needed to limit mobile phone misuse. The new class has made great contribution to the prosperity of the country, but the internal differences are great, and the interests and demands are also uneven. It’s all about coordination, figuring out the greatest common divisor. In order to enhance the scientific nature of the unity, we should adhere to the “two points”, not only look at the positive, not negative. Including the most beautiful “communication” “dialogue”, in the communication, don’t forget there will be “confrontation”, there will be “confrontation” in the dialogue. A good unionist likes the negative, and is willing to face and respond to negative challenges. In order to seek common ground, people are allowed to make different voices, and people are allowed to look at the problem from another Angle. In this way, countermeasures and plans are strengthened, forming a positive virtuous circle. “When water is clear, there are no fish.” To fail to study the negative is, at best, incomplete, and at worst, to fail to cherish the beauty of diversity and the value of unity. Diversity is difference. Differences should be compared and differentiated, and excellence should be selected and complementary to each other. We should seek common ground while shelving differences, seek common ground while resolving them, promote consensus rather than uniformity, and embrace diversity without losing our dominance.

In order to seek and amplify unity, we should uphold the sense of a community with a shared future for mankind in handling international issues

Human beings live together in the hydrosphere, aerosphere and biosphere on the surface of the earth. But this is not entirely true. There are friendly and hostile countries. The leaders of many countries serve their country and their people, while the leaders of some countries do harm to their people. The leaders of the 200 countries and regions in the world are also different and diverse and should be treated differently. We should respect their personalities and their leading positions in their countries, but we should also see that some of them are duplicity and backpedals, shake hands with other countries on stage or kick their feet off stage, and openly interfere in other countries’ internal affairs. It is normal to have different evaluations of a country, but it is not without its rights and wrongs. In their comments on international issues, some critics criticize one of them less than the others, some “praise” one of them less than the others, and some “take the hand of others and eat the mouth of others”. They have no choice but to help others hide the evil and promote the good. In commenting on international issues, it is necessary to make a distinction between the government and the people, and to firmly believe that people in any country are good, including a large number of social groups. Big officials may be small people, while small people may be adults. That is why we will do everything in our power to replace estrangement, clash and superiority with exchanges, and build a community with a shared future for mankind.

The battle of merit and disadvantage under school uniform

The United States has published a research report entitled “the implementation of school uniform policy: a case study of three school districts”, its research shows that the significance of the implementation of school uniform system is obvious, in school safety, classroom order and discipline, campus atmosphere, student comparison and other aspects have significant effects.

First, enhance the self-esteem of students, set up the concept of equality. Uniform uniforms eliminate differences in family backgrounds, eliminate the phenomenon of comparing with the joneses among students, and create an equal learning environment. When students set up the self assessment, is a positive self-image, eliminates the economy is not rich even pinch of unhappiness and inferiority complex, also eliminates the rich family to bring the strong family superiority, effectively put an end to the rise of the wind of the battle, make students become the relationship between equality and thus more conducive to health of body and mind development, protection of self-esteem, to create a good Learning environment has played a role that can not be ignored.

Second, strengthen students’ sense of belonging, sense of honor and the collective consciousness dressing can make children and adolescents feeling on the vision to produce a simplistic, complex changes through the consistency of the dress, make its psychological produce identity to the new environment and have a sense of belonging, uniform dress remind the student is a member of the class, class consciously abide by the rules, as the school With the continuous strengthening of service measures and the deepening of education, the group consciousness of students has gradually evolved and strengthened in this process. In fact, school uniforms play an important role in cultivating students’ group consciousness consciously or unconsciously, and play an imperceptible role in students’ behavior and concept from the stage of adapting to school uniforms to the stage of changing school uniforms and improving students’ ideas.

Thirdly, it can establish a good school image. As one of the symbols of school characteristics, school uniforms can reflect the teaching atmosphere and educational atmosphere of the school. According to the survey results of school uniforms, uniform dress has a good social effect, which not only promotes students’ performance, but also makes the school’s reputation and social image rise accordingly. Good school uniform is the competitiveness of the school, is an effective method of self-publicity and self-promotion, the school should design a school uniform with characteristics to show the school image.

In addition to these advantages, the school uniform questionnaire also shows the opposite results, for school uniform dissatisfaction is also more and more uniform style is single, most of the sports clothes as the only type of school uniform, can not reflect the personality of students, students are not willing to wear heart dissatisfaction; Second, sports uniforms for men and women with the same style, no gender distinction, blurred the boundaries between men and women; Three is the old school uniform style, monotonous color, poor fabric performance, non-standard size lack of beauty, can not meet the aesthetic needs of modern students; Fourth, the price is unreasonable, some school uniforms are too many, the quality of school uniforms is not proportional to the price, for part of the family economic pressure is too much, parents are not satisfied; Fifth, the school uniform procurement operation is not transparent and open, hidden many students and parents can not know the “privacy”, has not formed a more mature commercial operation mode.

Diverse reforms under school uniforms

Uniforms as primary and secondary school students the specific group of dress, the popularity of its need to accord with the requirement of ethics, which should be the interest of the students and parents in the first place, and is conducive to the healthy development of students body and mind, which requires school in school uniform cultural significance at the same time, to meet the requirements of the new age students and their parents to school uniforms, diversification of reform of the school uniform.

The questionnaire survey

This questionnaire is based on the study of school uniforms to investigate the psychological effects of school uniforms on students. You just have to choose yes or no.

1. Have you wear uniform in your middle and high school?

Yes

No

2. Do you like the uniform in your previous school?

Yes

No

3. If you don’t like it, why? If the above answer is no can be ignored.

Yes 

No

4. Do you think you accept the school uniform?

Yes

No

5. School uniform is a symbol of “same”, do you think it is discrimination against gender?

Yes

No

6. Do you think the school uniform system should be kept?

Yes

No

7. Do you think it’s a good thing that school uniforms become more fashionable?

Yes

No

Interview questions

1. Did you wear a uniform in middle and high school? What do you think of school uniforms at that time?

2. School uniforms are the same. What do you think about the consistency of school uniforms? How do you think it is on the gender side?

3. What do you think of the school uniform system?

4. If I make a fashion sportswear collection as a plan, there are two choices: first, choose three to five tops and trousers from the pile; second, choose three to five sets from matched look. Do you think you will like school uniforms more? What do you think this chooses?

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Now sogou Encyclopedia on the explanation of school uniforms is: school uniforms, uniform style of school provisions of the student clothing, common wear in primary and secondary schools. Schools in order to standardize management, uniform dress. In general, students are required to wear uniform clothes in major school activities. Generally, the school uniform has the school badge, which also directly affects the school image.

It is now said that school uniforms originated in Europe. At that time, due to the war, some families had a difficult life. In order to prevent the students from such families from feeling inferiority due to their family difficulties, and prevent those students from showing off in school, so it was stipulated that every student must wear the same clothes when going to school. But in fact, as early as in the Book of Songs zheng Feng Zijin “Qingqing Zijin, leisurely my heart. “There is a description of the original school uniform. “MAO poetry annotated sparse” explanation: “Qingjin, green collar also, the students.” Since the poem describes the clothes of students in the Zhou Dynasty, “Qingjin Dai” refers to the children of the Zhou Dynasty, and later became the uniform of students in the Northern Qi, Sui, Tang and Song dynasties. Of course, they weren’t called uniforms back then.

Later, from the Revolution of 1911 to the 1920s, uniform school uniforms appeared for the first time, and the new culture movement awakened people’s desire for beauty.

1930’s: Chinese cheongsam is blowing in the campus.

60s and 70s: Old military uniforms

The word “school uniform” has disappeared from China these days, as successive “movements” have erased the bright colors of the beautiful mountains and rivers. The old military uniform of grass green is the dominant color of the students these days.

1980s: Reform and opening up, a hundred flowers bloom, “school uniform” this word also gradually return to the public vision.

From the 1990s to the beginning of the 21st century: sports uniforms dominate the world, is also a small series of student memories.

Uniforms can spread social etiquette culture to a certain extent and cultivate children’s social norms. Beauty, comfort and safety are the main characteristics of uniforms. Certain fashion elements are added to the design of uniforms, which can not only lose the standard of uniforms, but also highlight the youth and vitality of children and cultivate their aesthetic ability.

Since the 1990s, it has been nearly 20 years for students to wear uniform student clothes in schools or in certain regions.