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Doing is the beginning of knowing, and knowing is the achievement of doing. Mobian puts forward three kinds of knowledge, one is knowing by oneself; The second is to know; The third is to say knowledge. Familiarity comes from personal experience, that is, from "doing". Knowledge is obtained from others, or passed on by teachers and friends, or conveyed by books, which can be summarized into this category. Saying knowledge is inferred knowledge. At present, the knowledge that is valued in general schools is only heard, and almost all knowledge is summarized by heard knowledge, while intimate knowledge is almost completely waved outside the door. Saying knowledge is also ignored, and at most it is only inferred from hearing knowledge.

▲ Tao Xingzhi's calligraphy: Doing is the beginning of knowing, and knowing is the achievement of doing.

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Education is the foundation of the country. Primary and secondary education is the fundamental plan of the country, and it is necessary to use scientific methods to analyze and study and conduct on-the-spot experiments in order to avoid going astray.

3

We firmly believe that health is the starting point of life, which is also the starting point of education. We firmly believe that teachers must never tire of learning before they can never tire of teaching. We are convinced that if teachers all over the country have the determination to "devote themselves to children's education until they die", they will certainly create a great new life for our nation.

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Teachers' duties are: teaching thousands of things and teaching people to seek truth; Students' duties are: learning everything, learning to be a real person.

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The four most important cultural keys for students are Chinese; Second, foreign languages; The third is mathematics; The fourth is the scientific method-the scientific method of studying and managing things. Instead of treating students as Tianjin ducks and filling in some fragmentary knowledge, it is better to give them some keys so that they can automatically develop the cultural treasury and the treasures of the universe.

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True education is a soul-to-soul activity. Only when it comes from the heart can it touch the depths of the soul.

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The so-called sound personality must include: 1. Private morality is the foundation of the foundation, and public morality is the foundation of serving the society and the country; Second, the knowledge and skills necessary for life; Third, a strong and lively physique; Fourth, the feelings of beauty and joy.

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To be a whole person, there are three elements: First, to have a healthy body-good body, we can stand firm in the material environment. Second, we must have independent thoughts-we must be open-minded, thorough and have the ability to judge right and wrong. Third, we must have an independent occupation-we must have an independent occupation in order to make a profit.

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If you want to stand on your own feet and make progress, you must have the courage to enlarge and shoot the experimental spirit into the new theory that has not been invented; I am not afraid of hard work, fatigue, obstacles and failure, and I am bent on discovering the mysterious new principles of education one by one.

▲ In the spring of 1929, in order to develop rural primary education in northern Jiangsu, Tao Xingzhi sent Li Youmei, a normal student from Xiaozhuang, to Huai 'an to establish Xin 'an Primary School. Tao Xingzhi wrote to encourage teachers and students to persist in running schools with the spirit of "holding a heart and not taking a grass".

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Morality is the foundation of being a man. Even if you have some knowledge and skills, it is of little use. Moreover, the greater the knowledge and skills of people without morality, the greater the evil they can do.

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If students want to be studious, they must be studious. Only a gentleman who never tires of learning can teach a student who never tires of learning.

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What students are asked to do, teachers and staff do it with their hands. What students are required to learn, teachers and staff learn by hand; Students are required to abide by the rules, and the teaching staff are required to observe them personally.

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Educating and educating people is the same as planting flowers and trees. First of all, we should know the characteristics of flowers and trees, and give fertilization, watering and education according to different situations. This is called "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude".

▲ Tao Xingzhi is very concerned about children's growth and often raises funds to buy holiday gifts for poor children.

14

Living talent education is not to instill knowledge, but to give students the key to developing the cultural treasure house as much as we know.

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We want living books, not dead books; Real books, not fake books; Books that need to be moved, not static books; Books to use, books not to read. Generally speaking, we should take life-centered teaching as guidance, not text-centered textbooks.

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A good teacher is not teaching, not teaching students, but teaching students to learn.

17

There is Watt under your pointer, Newton in your cold eyes and Edison in your ridicule. Don't be too busy driving them away. You don't have to wait until you sit on a steamboat, light a lamp and learn calculus to realize that they were your primary school students.

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Two different tendencies should be prevented in education: one is to completely eliminate the boundary between teaching and learning, which denies the wrong tendency of teachers' leading role; The other is the wrong tendency of only disciplining, not asking students' interests and not paying attention to the questions raised by students. The former tendency must be to have no plan and roll with life; The latter tendency is bound to indoctrinate students into roast ducks.

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Education can't create anything, but it can inspire children's creativity to engage in creative work. We have found that children are creative, and we must further emancipate their creativity when we know that children are creative.

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Children's minds, hands, feet, space and time should be liberated, so that they can fully live a free life and get a real education from the free life. Liberate his mind so that he can think; Liberate his hands and make him capable; Liberate his eyes so that he can see; Liberate his mouth so that he can speak; Liberate his time, so that he can go to the big society of nature to gain more knowledge; Liberate his space, don't fill up his homework, don't force him to catch the exam, don't unite with his parents to attack his homework, and give him some free time to digest what he has learned, and learn something he is eager to learn and do something he is happy to do.

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