Tao Xingzhi said: "Education can't create anything, but it can stimulate and liberate children's creativity to engage in creative work." In his view, children's creativity is the essence of their ancestors' ability after at least 500 thousand years of adaptation and struggle with the environment. This ability is either strong or weak.
It is the environment that cultivates or destroys this creativity. Mr. Tao said so, and so did he. In his life's educational career, he has always insisted that one of the important propositions is to create education, that is, to create an environment for the educated to exert their creativity. No matter in Xiaozhuang Normal School, he runs.
Both the life education advocated by him and the civilian education initiated by him aim at creating education. The school song towel he wrote for Yucai School requires students to "watch the world, peck open the unknown door, fly into the mysterious universe and look for the pearl of the night of truth".
Enthusiastic eulogize "the motherland of truth, goodness and beauty, the world of truth, goodness and beauty, the life of truth, goodness and beauty, and the creation of truth, goodness and beauty"! He appealed passionately that any place should be a place of creation, every day is a time of creation, and everyone is a creator. "Let's take at least two steps back and move forward on the road of creation."
Mr. Tao Xingzhi said, "We found that children are creative, and we must further emancipate their creativity." He believes that superstition, prejudice and misinterpretation, like headscarves, limit children's creativity. And this "headscarf" that binds creativity.
"Today, tomorrow, this year, next year, it seems that everyone must be wrapped in a golden tongue. If the Chinese nation does not want to appear on the international stage with a golden tongue and sing three faces, it is necessary to untie the head cloth together and let the creativity of the Chinese and Belgian people break through. " How to liberate children's creativity?
Teacher Tao put forward "six liberations", that is, liberating children's minds and making them think; Let go of his hand so that he can come down; Liberate his eyes so that he can see; Liberate his mouth so that he can speak; Liberate his space and let him gain more knowledge in the natural society; It's time to liberate them.
If he doesn't fill in the homework list, he won't be forced to catch the exam, and his parents won't unite to attack his homework. He should be given some free time to digest what he has learned, learn something he is eager to learn and do something he is willing to do. Mr. Tao said: "With these six liberations, creativity can be brought into play as much as possible."
In these six liberations, Mr. Tao particularly emphasized the liberation of time. He said, "I personally oppose the existence of the over-examination system. Ordinary schools occupy children all the time, so that children lose the opportunity to study and live, and develop a tendency of unintentional creation. When they are adults, they have time and don't know how to start to exert their creativity. " When Mr. Tao Xingzhi put forward students' creative ability.
It also places great emphasis on teachers' creative spirit. Teacher Tao advocates the method of "teaching and doing in one", that is, the method of teaching is based on the method of learning and the method of learning is based on the method of doing. How to do things, how to learn, how to learn and how to teach. He put forward the principle of "teaching yourself by teaching others". He used his practical experience.
Summed up an important academic theory, "it is better to learn for the sake of teaching than to learn for the sake of learning." To learn for the sake of teaching, we should put ourselves in others' shoes and try to make people understand. If you want people to understand, you will naturally understand more. According to the needs of rural education, Mr. Tao requires teachers to have "farmers' skills, scientific minds and the spirit of transforming society".
Therefore, Teacher Tao advocates that Teacher Tao should not only learn from students, but also create new students.