? What exactly is aesthetic education?
At the opening lecture of Xuan Tong class on 20 12, Mr. Toby Lin (Hu Lin) shared the topic of "love art and love philosophy", in which Mr. Cai Yuanpei of the Republic of China loudly said: "Aesthetic education can replace religion, and aesthetic education is the most important and basic education of outlook on life". What he said is very reasonable. As a parent, or as a person who lives in real life, do you think art is actually used to decorate life? That is to say, if you can play the piano, draw a picture, write a word and sing a song after doing other things, it is a good thing to kill time or have fun.
But in fact, aesthetic education is really not like this, it is far greater than embellishment or re-creation of life. Toby Lin (Hu Lin) also agreed very much. Indeed, a person with artistic talent and talent will get more love. So we also hope that children or ourselves can have artistic cells. If aesthetic education is not as simple as playing the piano, painting and singing, what is aesthetic education? Teacher Toby Lin (Hu Lin) will tell you what she thinks of aesthetic education from four aspects. If there are thousands of answers to the definition of beauty, the book says that the education of aesthetic emotion is very academic, and we don't know how to grasp its definition. But if put into practice or practice in life, it is still difficult.
The ability of aesthetic education
First of all, all education is to cultivate certain abilities, and the ability of aesthetic education is a person's perception and expression. Perception is the energy that a child absorbs from this world, and the ability to absorb all information is his ability to collect information. You will find that children are more likely to find all the visual differences and sound differences than we are. Expressiveness means that when he absorbs it, he can show it again with his own things. This is actually very important for a person, because the biggest difference between people and other creatures on earth is that human beings are better at observing emotions, observing emotions, combing emotions, expressing emotions and releasing emotions. The process itself is beautiful.
And if a person exudes artistic flavor, you will find that he is more likely to communicate with others, break the barriers between people and live in harmony with the crowd. According to Mr. Feng Zikai's theory, children are born artists with sensitive, rich and sincere feelings, but such feelings are not sticky. I think all mothers have experienced that one second their children are crying for the land, and the next they are laughing because of something else. This is actually a very artistic trait.
So from this perspective, perception actually precedes performance. Now the focus of art education is how to show and how to improve the so-called performance skills. Perception needs to absorb nutrition from life, which is not taught by anyone. No one tells you how to mobilize all your energy to feel life, feel all the touches that life brings you, and then use the skills you have learned to impress others, so that you can interact with others through the medium of art.
So the first Toby Lin (Hu Lin) said that aesthetic education is about a kind of ability.
Aesthetic education is about happiness?
Second, aesthetic education is about happiness. This happiness has two aspects. On the one hand, all philosophical traditions have mentioned why people suffer, because self is separated from subject and object. Especially when you grow up in adolescence, you will find the sense of alienation in the crowd very uncomfortable. It is very uncomfortable for you to sit with a person or a group of people and find that you have nothing to say, or feel that you are not accepted by others and cannot integrate into a group. If all the pain is constituted in this way, then all the happiness comes from eliminating the separation between subject and object.
Zhuangzi mentioned in his works that if you can specialize in one skill, whether you are a chef, a fisherman or a swimmer, if you can integrate with your skills, a writer with a brush and a singer with music, then he is the happiest person in the world.
The original intention of "Xuan Tong Classroom" is simple. Toby Lin (Hu Lin) found himself a happy person since childhood. The main reason for her happiness, as Zen says, is that she has a magic weapon. She can spread out the paper before the sky falls, write a page quietly, and then be resisted by tall people when the sky falls. Toby Lin (Hu Lin) has a set of games that make him happy and play by himself. And it works every time, no matter how serious it is, it will pass because of this twenty or thirty minutes.
So are children. If he needs very close affirmation, or relies too much on the company of the crowd when he grows up, it will be a very hard thing. If he has a hobby, a skill or a craft since he was a child, it can really make him stay with himself and have a good time, and he can cultivate a small garden by himself. The fruits of this garden can be shared with others, and his life will be much happier.
Art is actually order?
Third, art is actually about order, and the process of learning art is to learn order and its transcendence. Most artists have sincere feelings, but at the same time they are very rational. Art training is classical. Whether it is sketch, classical music or poetry, there are very strict rules. For example, Lin Tie is copying, hooking, and then trying to look the same as the post again and again, from form to spirit, and then trying to figure out the psychological trajectory of the ancients.
In addition to making people really quiet, training actually cultivates a very valuable thing called concentration. Teacher Toby Lin (Hu Lin) has not only heard of powerful architects and traditional Chinese medicine, but also a famous professor. They think that the education that has the greatest influence on personality is that parents force them to go home from school and write posters every day. Day after day, year after year of training, tempering strength and calm observation are the most precious wealth.
When you learn this rule, you should use it to express yourself. What you have learned is beyond order. Every artist grows up and becomes himself on the basis of his predecessors. This is actually the life of our society now. We can't completely violate the order, but should better conform to the order, whether natural or social, and find ourselves in the order.
Aesthetic education is the best education of outlook on life?
Fourth, aesthetic education is the best education of outlook on life. If we look at life from the perspective of beauty, many educations will become easier. Where is easy? The essence of art, everything it does is to create works. If we regard life as a work, most decisions, awkward moments and moments without elegance can be removed, because we are finishing a work.
Traditional Confucian education says that people should be self-disciplined, treat guests as themselves, and treat others as themselves. Art is very active. You regard life as a piece of drawing paper, and you need to be careful with every stroke. Every stroke needs to express the state of beauty, and every stroke wants it to express something that can impress you more and then impress others. If a child always pays attention to beauty in the process of growing up, it will not only dress well every day, clean himself up, speak well and do things more appropriately, but he will always look at his life with a caring attitude. Music may be simpler, because music is an art closely related to time. If you listen to life as a tune, then you can calmly inject more emotions and create more feelings in a unit time, and this kind of life is really beautiful.
The above four points are Toby Lin (Hu Lin)' s understanding of aesthetic education. If we educate a child, even if he is a plumber, he will be a plumber dressed beautifully and listening to beautiful music. The hand that pushes the cradle is the hand that pushes the world. Parents raise children, and your beliefs and choices are the future of this world.