Emile, a famous French enlightenment thinker, philosopher, educator and writer, is a masterpiece about education. It mainly describes the life experience of a fictional aristocratic child, Emile, and records his physiological and psychological characteristics, growth process and educational experience from an objective point of view. It is an educational theory work worth cherishing in your heart. Below I have collected some thoughts on Rousseau's Emile. Welcome to read it! Comments on Rousseau's Emile 1
Rousseau's Emile, written in 1757, is a masterpiece about education theory, which makes children grow up in a free air: comments on Rousseau's Emile. This book mainly describes the physiological and psychological characteristics, growth process and educational methods of the fictional aristocratic son Emile from birth to adulthood, which is vivid and is a theoretical masterpiece of modern educational art.
Rousseau put forward a viewpoint in Emile: children should develop naturally according to their nature, and I quite agree with this statement.
Rousseau believes that education follows nature, conforms to children's nature, and should not interfere with children and impose adult thinking on them. Now young parents feel the increasingly fierce competition in society, fearing that their children will lose at the starting line and even be eliminated by society in the future. Therefore, they are eager for their children's success, and they accompany their children to shuttle between different types of instrumental music, art, dance and English, arbitrarily encroaching on the children's play time, without considering their thoughts at all. Children should be allowed to grow freely. Any social interference with children will make them feel unfree, unequal and even sinful. Any way of education that goes against nature will lead to the abnormal development of children and have serious consequences. Children are not containers that can be shaped and filled at will, not whiteboards, but "natural beings" with their fixed laws. In our educational life, we should educate children as living people. Any teaching that goes against the law of students' physical and mental development is inhuman and cannot exist for a long time. "Everything is good from the creator of nature, but it goes bad once it is hand-held." Therefore, Rousseau strongly advocated: before children's understanding is developed, children should be kept away from society, return to nature, see and listen in the natural environment, and not accept secular influences. Let them run freely and laugh and laugh. Return to nature, let children adopt the aura of heaven and earth, collect the essence of the sun and the moon, and thus cultivate children with spirituality and personality. Reflecting on our education, in the dead of night, I feel as if I am cultivating a machine to cope with exams.
As a teacher, I should clearly realize the importance of nature education, fully tap children's talents, make children's hearts close to nature, and let children grow up in free air.
Rousseau's Emile can also be regarded as an education of human nature. What is the purpose of people's education? I have always believed that the purpose of education is to get happiness.
Rousseau said, "Nature wants children to look like children before they become adults. If we disturb this order, some fruits will be premature, they will not be full and sweet, and will soon rot. " Therefore, when educating children, we should respect their wishes as much as possible, let them run freely on the Yuan Ye, play and play as much as possible, cultivate creativity and grow up happily in the game.
In our usual teaching, we should pay more attention to the cultivation of children's thoughts and sentiments, actively guide and encourage students to experience natural beauty in nature, exercise children's ability to live independently, cultivate their spirit of overcoming difficulties and uniting and helping each other, and establish good interpersonal relationships. So as to promote students' all-round development and active development in a greater sense.
I believe that as long as you work hard and live a happy and complete educational life, it will not be far away. Buddha said: life is a process from scratch, because your actions make life meaningful. Life is supposed to be happy and complete, and we are just striving to return him to his original appearance! Reflections on Rousseau's Emile 2
Rousseau was an outstanding French enlightenment thinker and educator in the 18th century, and a modern bourgeois progressive thinker. He advocated the theory of "natural human rights", advocated freedom and equality, and opposed autocracy. He had given great inspiration and guidance to the political, cultural and educational reforms in modern society. Emile is an immortal work that expounds his theory of natural education, and fiercely attacks the feudal education that suppresses children's personality. In this educational book, Rousseau expressed his belief that human nature is good, that the purpose of education is to cultivate natural people, and that the content and method of education should be reformed to conform to children's nature and let them develop freely physically and mentally. It is still shocking to read today, and it is still of great enlightening significance to our current education.
Rousseau's naturalistic education is to obey the eternal laws of nature and let people's body and mind develop freely. The corresponding means of education are life and practice, so that children can get the knowledge they need from their personal experience of life and practice through sensory feelings. He advocates the use of physical teaching and intuitive teaching methods, and opposes abstract learning books.
Rousseau pointed out that "we are born weak, so we need strength; We were born with nothing, so we need help; We are born ignorant, so we need the power of judgment. These things are all given to us by education. " Education is nothing more than keeping habits. Rousseau strongly opposes such methods as beating, scolding and scaring, and at the same time does not approve of giving children too much care and care to bring up their children. Because mothers tend to spoil their children more easily, Rousseau warned: "When a woman cares too much for her children instead of her mother's care, she can also break away from nature from an opposite road. At this time, she made her child her idol. In order to prevent the child from feeling delicate, she raised the child more and more delicate, which will continue to prolong the delicate period in childhood and can't stand all kinds of hard work when she reaches adulthood. " Education is to help children get rid of weakness and ignorance, to keep children's natural habits, and to let them adapt to their habits naturally, rather than excessive intervention. It is not advisable to spoil or abuse children, which will have a bad influence on their healthy growth. In real life, such examples abound, and many parents have failed to grasp the degree. It is not that they are too fond of their children and still rely on their parents after they become adults, resulting in the phenomenon of "gnawing at the old"; Or it is to beat and scold children regularly, so that children can not get normal love and care, and develop a timid and indifferent character from an early age. Therefore, for every parent, it is necessary to have a good sense of proportion, not only to give love, but also to have proper discipline, so that both can achieve friendly results.
In addition, Rousseau also put forward the educational method of "natural consequences", which is also very enlightening to our education. The so-called "natural consequence method" is a way for children to get education and correct their mistakes by personally experiencing the adverse consequences of their own wrong actions. It is useless to reason with children. Rousseau said, "Children don't lie when they promise to do something. But if he doesn't keep his promise, the situation will be different, and he can trace his promise back to a lie. It can be seen that the child's lying is entirely caused by the teacher. They want to teach the child to tell the truth, but the result is to teach the child to lie. " When a child makes a mistake, it is useless for you to reason with him. At that time, he was forced by your authority to promise you to keep his promise, but because he didn't realize the damage he made to him, such preaching was meaningless, not only ineffective, but also counterproductive, which made the child learn to lie. To educate children to correct their mistakes, we should let him experience the damage caused by his wrong behavior. It is human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. When children realize the consequences of his wrong behavior, they will try to change his behavior.
In addition, Rousseau put forward a "love-centered" moral education theory, which is also of great enlightening significance to our current moral education practice. On the issue of moral standards, Rousseau put forward a code of conduct that is moral for the sake of morality, and opposed the utilitarian moral concept. Rousseau thinks that man is born with a kind of self-love that precedes all other desires, then loves those around him who care about him, and then directs this emotion to mankind, so that he can love the whole mankind, that is, a trilogy of moral education called "self-love"-"love people close to him"-"love all mankind". In the method of moral education, Rousseau advocates the methods of demonstrating, visiting and cultivating habits through action. On the other hand, our moral education at this stage, on the one hand, advocates indoctrination and ignores the cultivation of children's moral habits; On the other hand, education with empty and broad moral standards ignores moral judgment under specific moral choice conditions, so that children do not form correct moral judgment and choice. In particular, the lack of honesty in our society is not done well in some aspects, which makes the trust between people crisis. People's indifference to those in need has a great relationship with our moral education. Our moral education for children should first teach them to love their parents, love the people around them, have a grateful heart, and then love the whole mankind, and replace those selfish prejudices with this kind of fraternity, so that a child can become a truly virtuous person.
In addition to these shining educational thoughts, he also put forward many other educational discourses, such as his ideas that children should exercise to increase their adaptability, train their senses, develop their exosensory ability, and attach importance to labor education, which are still valuable for our educational practice.
In short, the educational thoughts contained in the classic masterpiece of pedagogy, Emile, are profound and timeless. It is not out of date, but still enlightening to our education. In the future educational work, we still need to draw nutrition from it to guide us to teach better, and really provide a good educational environment for the healthy development of children so that children can develop physically and mentally freely. In view of the limited time, I will talk about some feelings at present, and if I have more time or opportunities in the future, I will continue to gain experience from it. Reflections on Rousseau's Emile 3
It is every parent's wish to "look forward to your children's success and your daughters' success". Therefore, in today's China, educating children has become a top priority in people's lives. However, due to the excessive expectation of their children, more and more parents began to ask their children to receive education prematurely unconsciously. In their impression, "learning early, learning much and learning widely" is very beneficial to their future. My parents are also one of this group, so it can be said that this educational concept has been deeply rooted in my mind, and it has accompanied me for more than ten years. I also understand its negative effects: it will turn curiosity into boredom and even disgust; Will make us subject to knowledge; It will make our study passive, dull and dead ... Although I know there are limitations in this view of education, I am still at a loss about how to change and how to educate.
Emile directly answered my confusion. In this book, Emile is Rousseau's imaginary child. Through his education and the description of Emile's educational process from birth to adulthood, I have a certain understanding of Rousseau's educational ideas and methods, and also have some feelings about today's educational methods.
"Returning to nature and developing nature" can be said to be the main line of Rousseau's educational thought. From the first volume, he emphasized that the creator created everything in the world, and everything was beautiful, but human beings destroyed it. People should abide by the laws of nature and let children grow up healthily, happily and independently. This view is completely different from today's educational thoughts and parents' educational methods. But it's right to think about it. Since we were born, people have really begun to change the laws of nature. Parents bound us with swaddling clothes, but as babies, we can do nothing. The only freedom we can get is crying. Of course, many people will think this is protection, but in reality it is the opposite. It is likely that we will be greeted by delicacy, disease and danger. Therefore, in Emile's infancy education, Rousseau did the opposite. He advocated that babies should wear comfortable clothes and keep their natural habits. Don't restrict their activities excessively, but don't spoil them. At this moment, they should exercise their physique and courage and develop their good character of not relying on others. It can be said that he told us that the basic task of education during this period is physical health care and maintenance.
besides, I am deeply impressed by some other viewpoints in the book. Take Emile's childhood and adolescence for example. In childhood, Rousseau told us that children are not adults. We should regard children as children, respect their nature, let the seeds of their character grow freely, don't bind them, and believe in their inner potential, instead of replacing their views, ideas and feelings with our own, forcing them to learn this and that. As a teacher, we should know how to waste childhood children's time to teach them how to develop external sensory organs, so that they can gain rich sensory experience instead of just letting them contact and learn knowledge. I also agree with this view. I think that if children just study blindly without certain understanding and concepts, then learning is equivalent to learning in vain, and they will soon forget all they have learned, which may even have the opposite effect of being tired of learning. Childhood is the age to play, so it is better to stimulate their interest and cultivate their feelings and physical strength through games, and then teach them knowledge at a suitable stage. Perhaps this will get the best teaching effect and give them a good childhood memory. In his youth, Rousseau's point of view has not changed. He always thinks that it is not very important to teach students encyclopedic knowledge, because only what he has learned is really useful knowledge, and knowledge is not taught, but learned. He advocates that "I want to learn" in learning should be changed into "I want to learn", and he only pays attention to judgment. However, during this period, he paid attention to moral education instead, and he hoped to become a caring person when his children reached adulthood.
In fact, throughout the book, every volume contains Rousseau's unique ideas on education at different ages of Emile, and of course it also has a certain impact on education in today's society.
It tells us that in the usual teaching activities, we should cultivate students' sentiment, actively guide and encourage students to experience natural beauty in nature, cultivate independent ability and the spirit of overcoming difficulties, unity and mutual assistance, and establish good interpersonal relationships with others, so as to better promote students' all-round development, take the initiative to develop, and make children's lives full of fun and happiness.