? Searching for the Soul of School Education
A western expedition team visited the mysterious virgin forest and invited local Indians as guides. After several days at a time, the guide will ask the team to stop for a day. He said: "We are walking too fast, and the soul can't keep up. We should stop and wait for the soul." In ancient India, people believed that the soul walked with people. If people walk too fast, the soul will not keep up. We often go so far that we forget where we started and why. Because of this, we need to leave some space for ourselves to trace back to the source and keep returning to the place where we started.
human life is a complicated whole, but no matter how complicated it is, its soul lies in the desire for a higher and better life. Human education is also a complicated process, but no matter how complicated education is, its soul lies in activating the individual's inner desire for good things, so as to encourage the individual's life to grow and generate itself constantly.
therefore, in this sense, the soul of education is to guide people to constantly desire good things, and to inspire and guide the self-growth of individual life with the desire for good things that constantly emerges in individual hearts. The root of education lies in the individual himself. Only the education that stimulates the inner strength of individual self-growth is truly sound education, otherwise education will inevitably move towards passive indoctrination.
Some people say that our current education has trained more and more people with knowledge but no culture. This statement may be biased, but it does reflect a certain dilemma of school education today. When we bring up more and more young people with rich knowledge and excellent intelligence, we neglect to give them corresponding cultural influence. The acquisition of knowledge and the influence of culture cannot be confused. The acquisition of knowledge is more related to thinking, but the influence of culture is related to the existence of the whole person.
it is the soul of school education to ignite people's hearts, arouse students' inner changes and arouse students' overall life attitude changes.
Good education in personal memory
What is education? What is a good education? It is almost impossible, or a very difficult thing, to answer such questions accurately, comprehensively and correctly. For details, please refer to the major educational monographs.
however, in fact, each of us will have some personal fond memories of education in our hearts, or some fond memories will be left in the process of education, which is a kind of spiritual touch that will unconsciously rise when you recall the corners of your mouth.
Looking back on my student days, one of the teachers who impressed me the most was the Chinese teacher in grade two, Mr. Sun. In a Chinese class, the students are all finishing their homework, and the classroom is very quiet. At that time, I sat in the first group, near the wall, which made many students feel "safest" and always felt that it was not easy for the teacher to find out what to do. So, when the homework was finished, I happily passed a small note with a classmate behind me. In a short time, I heard footsteps, and I could feel the footsteps approaching me with my head down. "It's over, it's over ..." I said nervously in my mind.
Finally, Miss Sun stopped in front of me. I looked up at her in fear and trembling. Just that one look, I guess I will remember it all my life. There was no blame in her eyes, but a smile and spoil in it. She leaned down and said in a low voice, "What are you doing? Have you finished your homework? Have you checked? " I breathed a sigh of relief silently, leaving only shame and gratitude in my heart ...
I can't forget the low voice. The eyes and the voice contain too much tolerance and love. That kind of love is really an education that touches my heart, and that kind of education has really made me better.
Einstein once praised the definition of education: "If a person forgets everything he learned in school, what remains is education." This definition is definitely not the most authoritative definition of education, but it also suggests a truth: real education is something that goes deep into our hearts, stays in our memories for a long time, and urges people to do good.
the center of education is educating people, and the fundamental direction of education is people. A good education must be that people in education feel a beautiful education personally. ?
?
? Practical form of education: vivid communication between people
As Jaspers said, education itself means that one tree shakes another tree, one cloud pushes another cloud, and one soul awakens another soul. Education is a human activity at any time, an interpersonal activity and a vivid interpersonal communication.
James, a Harvard philosopher, said more than 1 years ago, "What is the most essential quality that constitutes a university? Many years ago in New England, it was said that on a log by the roadside, a student sat at one end and Mark Hopkins sat at the other end. That was a university. The quality of a school depends on the quality of people in the school. ..... Education is a matter between every student and his institution in the long run. The way we talk too much only plays a secondary role. ..... The most important thing is to provide them with more interpersonal contact. " The real university is the communication between people, and the close contact between young people and learned elders. This is also the meaning of President Mei Yiqi's famous saying that "a great scholar is not a building, but a master".
any educational activity is based on communication. As the saying goes, "If you are close to your teacher, you will believe in your way". A good teacher-student relationship is a necessary prerequisite for effective education. Any student who looks back on his school life experience may really miss more of the warm moments that happened between teachers and students and students in the natural state.
Of course, a complete education should not be limited to school education, and this kind of interpersonal communication is not limited to campus, but should be extended to daily life. School education, social education and family education are indispensable. ?
Do and think with educational ideals
Comenius, a Czech educator, once said, "What better or greater contribution can we make to our country than teaching and educating young people?" Education creates the future, and what kind of education we have actually represents what kind of future we have.
Today, with the popularization of school education, the profession of teachers has long lost its charm and even been prejudiced by people in the interweaving of various abnormal factors. However, I still want to say that a truly excellent teacher and a good school are of great significance to a child's lifelong development. I believe that too many front-line teachers are like this: they are always deeply aware of the fundamental significance of themselves as teachers. They have always adhered to their own educational ideals in their hearts and accompanied one fresh life after another in every ordinary day. They don't want to be vigorous, but only want the life of every child around them to be illuminated because of their existence.
Zhuge Liang wrote in the Book of Commandments: "When a gentleman travels, he should be quiet to cultivate his morality and frugal to cultivate his morality. Not indifferent, not clear-minded, not quiet, not far away. If you study quietly, you have to learn. If you don't learn, you don't have a wide range of talents. If you don't want to learn, you can't succeed. " We need to learn to return to ourselves in the increasingly complicated affairs, to our ideals and beliefs about the heart and education, and strive to live out our calmness, tranquility and purity as educators. Walking on the road of education, let's walk and think ...?