If life, work, and study can be automated, the results of education will be twice the result with half the effort. Therefore, we pay special attention to the cultivation of initiative, so that it can focus on all life, work, and study. Initiative is conscious. Action, rather than spontaneous action, conscious action requires proper cultivation and then can be achieved.
If you want a child to become obedient and dogmatic, you will adopt a persuasive educational method; and if you want him to think independently, critically, and have imagination, you should Adopt methods that can strengthen these intellectual qualities. Education in life teaches people to become alive, and education in death teaches people to become dead.
People are like trees. We must make them grow as high as possible. We cannot force them to grow to the same height. They should seek equality at the footing and seek freedom at the beginning.
Two different tendencies should be prevented in education: one is the erroneous tendency to completely erase the boundaries between teaching and learning, denying the teacher’s leading role; the other is to only discipline without asking students’ interests , not paying attention to the error tendencies of questions raised by students. The former tendency is bound to be unplanned and rolling along with life; the latter tendency is bound to indoctrinate students into rotten ducks.
Improve your personal morality and build a "Great Wall of Personality". From the soundness of private morality, the effectiveness of public morality is expanded to seek collective benefits.
We must liberate children's minds, hands, feet, space, and time, so that they can fully enjoy a free life and get real education from a free life.
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