? I often feel weak when I am excited. "Education is a process of life, not a preparation for future life" comes from Mr. Dewey's book My Education Credo more than 0/00 years ago, which is what he said when explaining "What is a school". He particularly emphasized: "Schools must present the present life-that is, give children a real and energetic life." After more than a hundred years, as educators, can we realize Mr. Dewey's idea?
? In Dewey's view, education should first pay attention to children's present life, and children's interest and thinking function can not be separated from realistic sex life. Only by proceeding from children's real life can education be effective and vivid, not arbitrary. Real education works by effectively stimulating children's potential, which is caused by various requirements in children's current life.
? In his view, school life should be adapted not only to children's own life, but also to social life outside school. Children are the main body of learning, and what teachers should do is to set up courses according to children's characteristics, instead of completely controlling children's learning content. In the process of children's learning, teachers need to change their roles. Teachers are participants rather than masters.
? Dewey put forward the methods to cultivate students' thinking: first, students should have real experience situations-continuous activities that are interested in the activity itself; Second, in this case, a real problem is generated as a stimulus for thinking; Third, he should have the knowledge and materials to make necessary observations and deal with this problem; Fourth, he must be responsible for the orderly development of his own solutions; Fifth, he should have the opportunity and need to test his ideas through application, make himself clear and find out whether it is effective.
? Dewey is an educational thinker who really discovered the relationship between education and life. However, due to the limitations of the times, Dewey's educational thought can not effectively solve the problem that school education is divorced from social life. Now, this problem is left to us.
? To learn from Dewey's educational thought, we should first break the "fence" between school and society and integrate students' life experience into the curriculum based on real situations. The problems and projects solved by students are closely related to students' life, and they are difficult problems and challenges in the real world. Teachers should cultivate students' autonomous learning ability and let students develop the habit of independent thinking and cooperative communication. In the classroom, teachers should play the role of guides, instructors and assistants. Only by respecting students' dominant position, emancipating their minds and stimulating their interest in learning can they finally promote their all-round development.