The four laws and eight principles of teaching are: the four laws are the combination of indirect experience and direct experience, the unity of mastering knowledge and developing intelligence, the unity of imparting knowledge and ideological and moral education, and the unity of teacher-led and student-centered.

The eight principles are the principle of combining science with education, the principle of combining theory with practice, the principle of intuitive teaching, the principle of inspiring teaching, the principle of gradual progress, the principle of consolidating teaching and the principle of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude.

The basic elements of the four laws

Teaching law is an essential connection that exists objectively in the teaching process and is independent of subjective will. It is objective, universal, stable and inevitable. Teaching law is the scientific basis for formulating teaching principles, selecting and using teaching organization forms and teaching methods.

Simple law. Teaching must be based on indirect knowledge, so that indirect knowledge and direct knowledge can be organically combined, and students can acquire more complete knowledge simply and conveniently. So that students can avoid repeating the mistakes and twists and turns of their predecessors, master knowledge most effectively, continue human activities of understanding and transforming the world at a new starting point, and climb new scientific peaks.

Education law. In the teaching process, it has an objective education and influence on students' thoughts. The process of education is actually the process of students receiving education. That is to say, while teachers impart knowledge and students master knowledge, they always have a certain influence on students' thoughts and feelings, standpoints, will quality and moral quality. , make students receive moral and ideological education.

Law of development. In the teaching process, teachers and students work together to develop students' intelligence, physical strength, ability to judge the beauty of diseases, labor ability, emotion, will and personality and psychological quality. Students' mastery of knowledge and the development of intelligence and ability are dialectical unity, and it is one-sided to only pay attention to the imparting of knowledge or the development of ability.