Rousseau: "Emile"

Education begins with the beginning of life. A child is already a student when he is born, but he is not the teacher's student. They are just students of nature. The teacher only conducts research under the arrangement of nature to prevent others from hindering his care for the children. He looked after the child, he watched him, he followed him... He watched with the utmost attentiveness for the first ray of light that appeared in his feeble intellect.

Dewey: "Dewey's Famous Works on Education"

We must stand in the shoes of children and take children as our starting point.

As members of the collective, teachers are more mature, have richer experience, and more clearly see the possibilities for continued development in any suggested design. They not only have the right but also the responsibility to propose activities. policy.

Comenius: "The Great Doctrine"

While a child is still a child, he cannot be educated because the roots of his understanding are still high above the ground. too far.

Montessori: "Discovering the Child"

Once the child's spiritual power awakens, it will develop according to its own unique laws and affect us. Mere contact with this normally developing human being awakens our power. The harmonious development of children makes the adults around them improve themselves due to infection. What an exciting picture it is!

Suhomlinsky: "Dedicate Your Whole Heart to Your Children"

I have always believed that to enter the door of the mysterious palace of childhood, one must change to some extent. become a child. Only in this case will children not regard you as a person who accidentally broke into the door of their fairy tale world, as a caretaker guarding this world, a caretaker who is indifferent to everything that happens in this world.

"Yuan Dao" Pseudo-Confucianism can be seen in action

——Talk and speech at Sichuan University (excerpt)

Chen Ming

This is a Western story. John's grandfather made an ax because his family moved to the mountains and had to rely on logging to make a living. When it came to John's father, the handle of the ax was broken, so John's father replaced it with a new one. When John arrived, the ax was also broken, so he replaced it with another axe. So the question arises: Is this ax still the same ax that belonged to my grandfather? I want them to answer. Physically speaking, of course, the ax is no longer the same axe. However, as a tool for their family's livelihood, the two axes are consistent in meaning from the structural relationship between the ax and John's family.

This is what I understand today’s Confucianism. What we need to inherit today is not "the law of the saints", but "the reason why the saints are the law". We should understand and construct such an ax from the perspective of the meaningful relationship between culture and nation. Of course, this does not mean a total replacement of tradition, but it simply means that specific propositions cannot be allowed to become obstacles to today's development. Confucius, who emphasized that people can spread the Tao, is resurrected today. Surely he must make a new plan based on today's problems and today's information, right? Lu Kun said that it is not necessary to speak the words of a sage, but to achieve the meaning of what a sage must say. How much has changed from Zhou Gong to Confucius? How much has changed from Confucius, Mencius and Xun to Dong Zhongshu? Today's situation is changing at an unprecedented scale, and we should be sufficiently aware of the changes in the face of Confucianism. To be conservative is not to be conservative for the sake of being conservative, but to be conservative for the sake of effective commitment. This is not just a matter of emotional satisfaction and emotional venting. The Six Classics charge me to open up new horizons in order to open up peace! This is also the meaning of "consistency" in Confucianism. The current situation in our academic world is that we maintain our achievements more than we create, and we inherit more than we develop. This is not promising.

Back to John. Suppose one day, life changes, for example, John's family leaves the mountains and moves to the lake, and can no longer rely on logging for a living. So, the ax we just mentioned as a tool for making a living has lost its original "consistent" meaning, but I think the ax can still be used as a symbol to identify and stimulate creativity.

It would be foolish not to know how to adjust - grandpa would be so angry that he would blow his beard and glare and scold those who are unworthy of his descendants; but it is also foolish to oppose the ax to the fishing net and even blame and curse grandpa for not accumulating and inheriting the knowledge of fishing for himself.

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