In "Education Essays", Locke elaborated on his thoughts on gentleman education, that is, how to cultivate rational, virtuous, and talented gentlemen or pioneering entrepreneurs. His thoughts on gentleman education are mainly reflected in three aspects: physical education, moral education and intellectual education. Below is the "Example of Reflections after Reading "Education Talk"" that I have compiled for you. I hope it can help you. Sample essay after reading "Education" (1)
"Education" is a masterpiece of education written by the great British Enlightenment thinker John Locke in the 17th century. It is recognized by later generations as comparable to Rousseau's "Emilie". "Children" is a world classic education masterpiece. In the UK, the book is highly regarded as an authoritative work on educational theory that influenced Britain throughout the 19th century. There are neither difficult theories nor obscure academic concepts in the book, but what he talks about is very profound and inspiring. The following points are what I felt most deeply when reading:
1. "A healthy spirit resides in a healthy body"
The author believes that cultivating a strong body should be placed at the forefront of education First of all, this corresponds to the old saying "the body is the capital of revolution". It is true that if we want to study, work, succeed, and be happy, we must first have a healthy body. Parents should not coddle their children, but should actively guide them to develop a strong body. They should live more outdoor lives, receive exercise from air, sunlight and water, live regularly, eat lightly, get enough sleep, use less medicine, exercise more, etc. He believes that the first thing should be "no matter whether it is winter or summer, children should not be overly warm in their clothes" because "most children's bodies have been damaged, or at least damaged, due to spoiling."
He pointed out that the main criterion for physical strength is the ability to endure hard work. Perhaps everyone is familiar with the case of friendly summer camps held between Japanese children and Chinese children. Faced with the weak physical fitness of Chinese children, shouldn't our society, schools, and families also reflect on it? Of course, we teachers and parents also understand the importance of physical health, but when faced with whether to spend their children's limited time on sports or studying, the vast majority of adults will choose the latter. Today's children do not have enough time or space to play and exercise. Facing textbooks, TV, and computers for a long time makes them ignore the existence of nature. Why are more and more children now suffering from myopia? Why is the physical fitness of Chinese children declining instead of improving? In childhood, which one is more important, physical and mental health or knowledge learning?
2. “One of the difficult but valuable goals in education is virtue.”
As many teachers realize, for preschool children, they should first cultivate good moral character. The cultivation of living habits and spiritual quality is the most important and difficult thing in a person's life education. Therefore, disciplining children should start from a very young age and should be developed as early as possible. Because children are the most malleable, they are like a piece of white paper or a piece of wax, they can be made into any shape they want. If you want your child to convince you when he grows up, you must first convince him when he is a child. As your child grows up, you must convince others with reason and maintain this authority with love and friendship. Locke also put forward many specific opinions on children's moral education, such as role model education, civilized and polite education, reward and punishment education, and the combination of leniency and severity.
“Cultivating people with moral integrity is the top priority of education. Only when teachers have eyes, heart and mouth, they can discover children’s small problems at any time, be careful at all times, and carefully wipe children’s young minds. Let them be healthier and brighter! They are as pure as white paper. At this time, it is even more important to guide them correctly, and it is also very important to care for and encourage children. At the same time, there must be teachers who really have stories. A patient teacher; a patient teacher must be a democratic teacher and a kind teacher. Especially as a kindergarten teacher, I cannot be too strict with children when they are noisy. I must respect the children's nature and get along well with them. Let children truly accept themselves.
3. "The purpose of intellectual education is to develop children's abilities so that they can master the correct methods and actively acquire knowledge."
Wrote about physical education and moral education. After that, the author finally writes about intellectual education. He believes that virtue and wisdom are much more important than knowledge. The first two are helpful for learning, but learning without virtue and wisdom is useless. Don't force children to read as a task. Children should learn, and treat reading as a game, a pastime, a glorious and happy thing, and they will demand to learn.
Children's curiosity should be carefully encouraged, because curiosity is a kind of learning. Children who are curious about things will be good at thinking and use their brains. Pay attention to children's interests, because when they are interested, their learning efficiency is two or three times better. When children are not willing to do that thing, parents may. Teachers should let them do less. Forcing them will only make them hate learning and lose their potential for long-term development. Therefore, they must use appropriate methods and insist on learning through fun.
"Education is trivial and fun. Personalized, simple right and wrong are not enough to solve the complexity of things. Children must be read in reality, and their life world, character traits and marks of the times must be read out. Only in this way can complete and independent people be cultivated.
"We must respect the individuality of each child and cannot demand that they all be perfect. Children with different characteristics need to be educated in different ways, and only by teaching students in accordance with their aptitude can we achieve the best results.
"Education Talk" to This gave me a great revelation: "My life has a limit, but my knowledge has no limit." The acquisition of knowledge is boundless, and the improvement of oneself is endless. "The road is long and long, and I will search up and down." ", I will continue to explore on the road of being a teacher and explore educational concepts that are conducive to children's healthy growth and happy learning. While allowing children to release their nature, they can also acquire knowledge and educate them in an entertaining way. "Education Sample essay (2) after reading "A Random Talk"
I finished reading Locke's "A Random Talk on Education" intermittently. Although the theme of the book is gentleman education, the book mainly talks about physical health and moral education. And intellectual education, among which moral education is the most important content in "Education"
He said: "Among the various qualities that a gentleman should have, I put morality first and regard it as the most important. The most necessary quality. "He requires that children must have sound mental development on the basis of a healthy body, and this is reflected in the fact that they must have perfect virtue. Locke believes that virtue is the most important and indispensable in life. Although he said about virtue The standards are tailor-made for gentlemen, and what we want to cultivate is not gentlemen, but all-round development of new people, but it also requires comprehensive development of morality, intelligence and body, which is in line with Locke's educational thoughts and his process of educating children. The detailed description in "How to induce children to learn" Locke said: "When he is old enough to speak, he should start to learn to read." I also found that when I asked the parents of some students who did not like to read extracurricular books, I often found that these students had not read many books when they were young, while those students who loved reading often read books very early with the guidance and help of their parents. Let them develop a good habit of reading. Therefore, reading should start from an early age. Sample essay on "Education"
I haven't read an educational classic for a long time. It is a classic that has been dusted for a long time, so I borrowed it and only read it briefly. However, I can more or less understand the principles in the book and talk about my own feelings based on the actual situation. This is a book with a small number of words and a gorgeous cover. It's not a fancy booklet either. It's called "Educational Essays". It covers three aspects of topics, listed first by the author John Locke.
It talks about sports, and what it actually talks about is health education. At the beginning, Mr. Locke expressed his view that "a healthy spirit resides in a healthy body." Focusing on how to make children have a healthy body, Mr. Locke started from "warmth, swimming, and air." , clothes, diet, sleep, medicine" and many other aspects were described. He believed that the first thing should be "no matter whether it is winter or summer, children's clothes should not be too warm" because "most children's bodies have been pampered and spoiled. So it was broken, or at least it was damaged. "He pointed out that the main criterion for physical strength is the ability to endure hard work. Perhaps everyone is familiar with the case of the friendly summer camp where Japanese children and Chinese children held together. Faced with the weak physical fitness of Chinese children, our society, Should schools and families also reflect on the prescriptions given by Mr. Locke, "Breathe more fresh air, exercise more, and sleep more; food should be light, alcohol or strong drinks are not allowed, and medicines should be used to the maximum extent." Less, preferably no use; clothes should not be too warm or too tight, especially the head and feet should be cool, and the feet should be used to cold water and should be in contact with water. "How simple and easy to do, but in our current educational environment, we can let children do several things. Recently, the State Council issued Article 12 of the "Opinions on Strengthening Youth Sports and Enhancing Youth Physical Fitness". The focus is to ensure that One hour of physical activity time for students every day, and it must be implemented, should become a school norm and a student's habit.
"One of the difficult but valuable goals in education is morality." "Mr. Locke started from the reality of British society at that time and from the perspective of cultivating gentlemen, they must have four moral qualities: reason, etiquette, wisdom and courage. And these "moral qualities should be formed early, which will affect children throughout their lives." Around us, we can often see some parents who indulge in their children's mistakes. They think that the children are still young and will be fine when they grow up. This is precisely the most important thing. Dangerous. Locke believed that children should be accustomed to obeying restraint and obeying reason when their spirits are "weakest and most easily controlled", so that they will not be difficult to correct later. Of course, it should be noted that you cannot cultivate too many habits at the same time, otherwise, too many tricks will confuse them, which is not conducive to the cultivation of habits. In the process of moral education, the role of role models cannot be underestimated. We know that children are easily influenced by the external environment and love to imitate others, especially primary school students.
If we put before them an example of what is right or wrong by someone they know well, and why it is beautiful or ugly, the power of that example is greater than any preaching.
Of course, as teachers, we cannot ignore the role of our own role models. "If you think that what he did was a mistake, but you did it yourself, then he will definitely use your example as a talisman. At that time, It will not be easy if you want to use legitimate methods to correct his mistakes. "So what should you do if a child accidentally makes a mistake? Locke pointed out that he believed that punishment should be avoided as much as possible and advocated awakening the innermost feelings of children. Sense of honor and shame, because "children are extremely sensitive to reputation" and they feel it is a pleasure to be respected by others. Once they understand the meaning of respect and humiliation, it will be the most powerful stimulus to his psychology. "Only the inner shame and the fear of not seeing evil in others can be a real restraint."
Mr. Locke believes that knowledge is not the most important compared to quality. Knowledge should be there, but it should be in the third place and can only be used as an auxiliary to more important qualities. Therefore, in this book, intellectual education is discussed last. He first reminded us that "you should take great care not to regard reading as a task for him, nor to make him regard reading as a kind of work." Once reading becomes a burden on a child, he will immediately hate it, even if they used to I originally liked reading. Learning should be regarded as a game, a pastime, and a reward after doing other things. He mentioned this point of view many times in the book. When it comes to Chinese language learning, Mr. Locke is opposed to mechanical learning and learning Chinese based on grammar. He gave an example: a French woman taught a British girl to learn French, just chatting with her, no grammar required at all, just oral English. After a year or two of hard work, British girls can speak and read French very well. It advocates paying attention to children's interests, "because children's learning efficiency is two to three times better when they are interested", and encourages children's curiosity full of desire for knowledge. At the end of the book, the author points out that "everyone's psychology is the same as his face, each with some characteristics that distinguish him from others. Two children can rarely be taught in exactly the same way." The education of children should be carried out according to their different characteristics, which is consistent with the "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude" proposed by our ancestor Confucius.
The mainstream educational thought in "Education Talk" is progressive and worthy of our continued study today. For example, this passage left a deep impression on me: "Mistakes in education are more serious than other mistakes. Mistakes in education are just like mispreparing medicine. If you make a mistake the first time, you must not make a mistake." The second and third times to make up for it, their influence will never be erased for life." This makes people look at themselves: what impact will the mistakes I made on the students, and how much can be repaired? In short, even the most ordinary ones. Children, as long as they are educated properly, can become extraordinary people. Sample essay of "Education Ramblings" (4)
After I started working, I also saw fragments of the real book "Education Ramblings" in many books and articles, but I never had the opportunity to read this work. This year, I was fortunate enough to read the book "Education Talk" and benefited a lot. "Education Ramblings" is a book full of philosophy, easy-to-understand, vivid and touching. The content of this book is Locke's advice to his gentleman friend, Edward Gluck, on how to train his son to become a standard gentleman. - A British gentleman who is modest and courteous, elegant in manners, upright in conduct, and hard-working. He not only loves knowledge, but is also able to hold a gun and fight for the motherland at any time. The content written in the book is the result of John Locke's many years of experience as a tutor.
"Education Talk" is based on the theme of "gentleman education". The whole book is divided into three parts: physical health care, moral education, and intellectual education. After reading it, I couldn't help but admire John Locke, the 17th-century British bourgeois materialist philosopher, political thinker and educator. The in-depth and simple descriptions and philosophical words in the book suddenly opened my eyes and made me understand and reflect involuntarily. The mainstream and progressive educational ideas in "Education Talk" are worthy of our continued study and discussion today. It tells a lot about the conduct and personality that students must possess, such as conduct, rationality, wit, elegance, courtesy, etc. John Locke believes that cultivating these characters and personalities in students from an early age will benefit their future growth and development throughout their lives. Indeed, for students’ education, especially in family education, many basic tasks are very important, such as the formation of children’s living habits, moral character, and learning attitudes. After reading it, we deeply felt that we should educate our children from an early age to develop excellent qualities and unique personalities that will benefit them throughout their lives.
1. Pay attention to the physical health of your children
"A healthy spirit resides in a healthy body. This is a brief and sufficient description of happiness in the world." This is " The first sentence in the first volume of "Educational Essays" is also a classic quote by John Locke in "Educational Essays". In the book, he talks about "warmth, swimming, air, clothing, diet, sleep, medicine" and other aspects. It advocates that children should exercise from an early age and opposes parents pampering their children; we must insist that children go more into nature, get closer to nature, do more activities in nature, and swim more.
He proposed that the main criterion for physical strength is the ability to endure hard work. Therefore, children should be allowed to wash their feet with cold water from an early age to exercise their will; children should not wear too many clothes in their childhood. and feet should be kept cool; the diet should be light, eat more pasta, eat less greasy food, and do not drink strong drinks; in addition, there are many detailed tips on exercise, sleep, breathing fresh air, etc. opinion. We can insist on letting our children do these things in our daily lives, but in our current family education environment, how many parents are willing to let their children do it? Since most families only have one child, most of them are obedient to them and never ask their children to do anything.
In the book, the author explains health as two aspects: physical and mental. These two aspects are the most basic conditions for work and happiness. "Those who are healthy both physically and mentally don't have any other extravagant expectations; for people who are unhealthy physically and mentally, even if they get other things, it will be in vain." Therefore, our family education must ensure the health of our children. Physical and mental health, use scientific education methods to ensure children's physical and mental health, help children understand their own characteristics, cultivate their self-awareness, learn to listen and express, treat themselves objectively, learn to control their emotions, understand and support others, So that children's physical and mental development can be healthy.
2. Let children develop good qualities
The second topic covered in "Education Talk" is moral education. In addition to having a healthy body, the most important thing for children is to have good qualities. Mr. Locke pointed out, "One of the difficult but valuable goals of education is virtue...Only virtue is the real good...The higher the virtue of a person, the easier it is to achieve all other achievements." In his book It is said that every gentleman must possess the four moral qualities of reason, etiquette, wisdom and courage. And these moral qualities "should be formed early, which will affect children throughout their lives." In our daily lives, we often see that some parents around us have very wrong ways of educating their children. They see their children making mistakes but indulge them regardless. , they all think that the children are still young now, and they can be forgiven for making mistakes. There is no need to blame them too much and order the children to correct themselves. It will be fine when the children grow up. This kind of thinking and approach is very wrong and the most dangerous.
We should let children develop the habit of obeying restraints when their spirits are "the weakest and most easily controlled", so as to avoid developing wrong habits in the future, which will be difficult to correct. Therefore, in the process of cultivating children's moral education, parents and teachers must serve as role models, be strict with themselves at all times, set an example for students, educate them with their own words and deeds, infect them, and let children live a good life. environment. Children are very imitative and like to imitate what others do when they see it. This should be well grasped in the process of educating children. We must use the good and bad things, right and wrong practices that happen around our children to educate them anytime and anywhere, and at the same time tell them why it is good or bad, right or wrong, so that we can guide them correctly.
3. Treat children’s knowledge correctly
Now that children have good qualities, how should we treat children’s knowledge correctly? In the book, John Locke believes that knowledge is not the most important compared to quality. Children should have knowledge, but relatively speaking, it should take second place and can only be used as an auxiliary to more important qualities. Therefore, John Locke puts intellectual education at the end of this book. He first reminded us that "you should be careful not to regard reading as a task for him, nor to make him regard reading as a kind of work." It shows that in the education process, we should not let reading become a burden for children. Once reading becomes a burden for a child, the child will hate it, even if the child used to like reading. Therefore, we should let children regard learning as a happy way of leisure and play, even if we regard it as a reward for children after doing something. At the end of the book, the author pointed out that "everyone's psychology is the same as his face, each with some characteristics that distinguish him from others. Two children can rarely be taught in exactly the same way. "The author pointed out that the education of children should be based on their characteristics. This is exactly what we advocate "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude."
The words in "Education Talk" are casually expressed, and reading is like exchanging experiences in educating children with a friend. It is not only a philosophical, profound, vivid and touching book, but also one of the most important books in the history of human education that is highly praised by some scholars today. Sample essay on reading "Education Talk" (5)
John. Locke's "Educational Essays" is a masterpiece of education that has far-reaching influence on the world. Locke pointed out the importance of education on the second page, "Mistakes in education are more serious than other mistakes. Mistakes in education are just like mispreparing medicine. If you make a mistake the first time, you must not repeat it a second time or a third time." To remedy it, their influence will never be erased for life. "Family education is very important. When children receive wrong education at home, it is a bit difficult to receive school education.
Locke discussed issues such as virtue, wisdom, etiquette and learning in the book.
Among them, he valued virtue the most. He said, "I think among the various qualities of a person or a gentleman, virtue is the first and most indispensable." No one will be happy.”
Teaching and educating people are the first priority. I think that under the current education system, most schools are more focused on teaching performance and continue to take major and small exams. , moral education should not be ignored, and moral education activities should be carried out in a down-to-earth manner. If there is a problem with a student's moral character, his life's happiness will be ruined.
Moral education has been valued since ancient times. "The way of a university lies in clearly showing virtue, being close to the people, and striving for perfection." "The Great Learning" mentions cultivating oneself, managing one's family, governing the country, and bringing peace to the world. Self-cultivation is the foundation, "From the emperor to the common people, all are based on self-cultivation." "The so-called self-cultivation is to rectify the heart. If the body is angry, it will not be rectified; if there is fear, it will not be rectified; If you have joy, you will not be righteous; if you are worried, you will not be righteous. If you are distracted, you will not see, hear but not hear, and eat without knowing the taste. "In ancient times, moral education was more important than in modern times. Education is so utilitarian, you will learn whatever you take the test, but all-round development of poems, books, rituals, music, etc.
There are many words discussing punishment in "Education Talk". Today's education in China is all about "punishment". Justifiable punishments may also be reported to the media by parents in the name of corporal punishment. The bad media report endlessly in order to attract attention without considering the social impact, resulting in many teachers managing students. Shang Mingzhe is cautious in his words and deeds, but some students are becoming more and more unscrupulous. Many teachers lament that today's students are becoming increasingly difficult to manage. Too much is not enough, corporal punishment is the extreme form of punishment, and education without punishment is incomplete.
“If what the child fears or feels is only the pain it causes, the benefits of whipping are not much, because the pain disappears quickly and the child’s memory of it will be forgotten at the same time. But I think there is one kind of fault for which children should be whipped, and the only fault for which children should be whipped is stubbornness or resistance. In this case, I advocate that the humiliation of whipping be reduced to the extent possible. The biggest part of punishment is not pain. Only making them feel ashamed for doing something wrong and being beaten is the real moral sanction."
Locke advocated the use of whipping with caution, "whipping or whipping. Scolding should be carefully avoided, for this method of punishment can never do any good except to instill in the child a sense of shame and horror at the wrongdoing which has led to the whipping or scolding." Over time, "This kind of slave-like discipline also develops a kind of slave-like temper."
"It just seals the present and puts a layer of skin on the wound, which is the core of the pain. Still not touched. Only inner shame and fear of doing evil to others are a real restraint. "Education must cultivate the heart," Mencius said, "the heart of compassion is the root of benevolence; the heart of shame." , the principle of righteousness; the heart of resignation, the principle of etiquette; the heart of right and wrong, the principle of wisdom."
In this book, the author also talks about issues in sports and intellectual education in a simple and easy-to-understand way. And philosophical.
I spent more than ten days reading this book again, reading the key chapters twice and making excerpts of 2,000 words. I still want to read it after closing the book. This is a true educational classic. You will gain new insights if you read it again after a while.