On the basis of historical data, Ten Methods of Zeng Guofan's Teaching Children analyzes Zeng Guofan's methods of teaching children from ten angles: "one province, two quietness, three diligence, four harmony, five sincerity, six learning, seven brightness, eight standing, nine interest and ten regularity".
Every word is humorous and elegant, supplemented by a short story that tends to escape, which is readable to some extent, and the theme is in line with the hot topic of current family style and family training.
Zeng Guofan's educational thought?
Zeng Guofan attached great importance to "filial piety" in the process of family moral education. He wrote in his family instructions that "filial piety is a good omen for the family. Where the so-called karma is untested, only filial piety will win good luck, otherwise it will win disaster and there will be no test. Zeng Guofan warned his disciples that "filial piety can last for ten generations and eight generations", and he believed that the internal relationship of the family was based on filial piety and friendship. ?
The contents of Zeng Guofan's family moral education include prudence, respect, kindness, simplicity, brightness and fortitude. Caution means being cautious when living alone. Respect is about a person's mental state, self-reliance, self-confidence, self-improvement and taking work and life seriously. Kindness is a kind of compassion in a broad sense and a kind of love.
Zeng Guofan also has his own unique understanding of thrift and housekeeping. "The prosperity of state-owned enterprises is caused by diligence and thrift, and its decline is also the opposite." Zeng Guofan's adopted son asked them not to sit in sedan chairs, not to use servants as much as they could, to behave themselves with the word frugality, and not to get used to the word arrogance and extravagance. ?
Zeng Guofan studied and studied, and absorbed valuable cultural heritage with an inclusive and prudent attitude. He "learned without learning, but learned with precision", taking classics and history as the root, Song learning as the Sect, and hundred schools of thought, Laozi, Zhuangzi and Mozi as the scholars. Zeng Guofan was ashamed of not knowing astronomical arithmetic, and educated and urged his son to learn practical knowledge such as astronomical arithmetic.
Zeng Guofan asked his children to be diligent in their learning attitude. In a letter to his son, he said, "I wasted my time from my teens to my twenties. Now I can read, write and write every day, and I can still succeed." Teach your son to make up for lost time with diligence. In the traditional society of China, the Tseng family had the virtue of hard work and housekeeping.