First, in education, when life meets life.
"Education is to meet beauty. The encounter between life and life is beautiful, the encounter between students and teachers is beautiful, the encounter between students is beautiful, and everyone meets life through reading is also beautiful. All the encounters are to expand the wider world and make your world bigger. The whole process of education is a process of meeting beauty and experiencing beauty, and it is also a process of life growth. " -"The Meeting of Beauty"
We have to admit that the initiative and possibility of education are infinite. When life meets life, it can ignite the beauty we can't design and imagine. In an instant, one kind of life energy exchanges with another, leaving perhaps the heart of a living body throbbing for life.
Walking into school, classroom, education and life, our most primitive feeling is probably the vivid sense of life full of this kind of education. Education that has lost the meaning of life is likely to leave us only lethargy. Real education is to let individuals find the sense of growth of life at any time.
In education, it is beautiful for students and teachers to meet in life. Looking back at our student days, we all have an amazing similarity: after many years out of campus, what we really remember is sometimes not the knowledge points repeatedly emphasized by the teacher, but the moment when the teacher's life collided with ours and had a strong resonance. As for education, Einstein once defined it like this: "If a person forgets everything he learned in school, the rest is education."
I think the education that really affects students' life must have a temperature. It is the temperature left when teachers and students exchange life energy. It is the temperature of generate that instantly ignites the depths of students' souls, and it warms every young life waiting to soar. A person, a lifetime, how much time is spent in school? The encounter between teachers and students, students and students, in the final analysis, is the encounter between life and life. The encounter between life and energy will produce new spiritual growth, which will be the most beautiful appearance of education.
Second, in the encounter, when the living body emits light.
Tagore said: "Children's subconscious is more active than their conscious intelligence ... The cognitive ability of the subconscious is completely integrated with our lives. It is not like a lamp that can be lit and adjusted from the outside, but like the light released by fireflies in the course of life. " -"The Meeting of Beauty"
As Ye Shengtao said, "A flower, a grass, the possibility of its prosperity and growth is already available at the time of a seed." Yes, in education, our students are like the flowers and the grass. Their final appearance is not only the result of our pruning, but also a process of their own growth. Students' life experience shines in the encounter with education, not only because of the energy of education itself, but also because of the factors that can shine in their own lives. They are light sources in themselves, just like fireflies.
The process of education is sometimes a process of exploring life and finding possibilities, so it is particularly important to teach students in accordance with their aptitude. It is a great ability to discover different students' interests in the process of education, which is the premise to tap a person's ability. Our curriculum is unified, the teaching materials are unified, and the evaluation criteria are unified, but our students are really different in nature. In the initial stage of education, students can find out where their interests and abilities are and develop healthily. This is the real education.
How lucky a student is to meet a teacher who can read him all his life. Just like the lamplighter found the wick, brushed the dust off it, straightened the wick, picked it up and borrowed a fire source from him. Since then, the light has been on.
In my primary school, what impressed me deeply was a young English teacher. Unlike most strict teachers, I am fascinated by her kind tone, vivid expression and natural care in class. Her eyes seem to know your heart. In class, my breath of life seems to be connected with her. In my opinion, everywhere she is is like color. At that moment, I realized the personality charm of educators and deeply yearned for it. I am deeply immersed in every English class. Many years have passed, and the word "teacher" still leaves me with memories. Later, I went to see her and heard that she had left that school, but for me, she was still there, where I first received my education.
Third, in life, teachers and students meet each other.
"You say what's the use of reading this book, especially if it doesn't pass the exam. What did you read? What's the use of reading that book without an exam? Yes, it's useless. However, maybe ten years later, twenty years later, or even thirty or forty years later, a book or an article you read as a teenager will flash in your mind, or suddenly flash when you do something. What is that? This is a mysterious clue. This mysterious clue is buried in the depths of your life like a tight encirclement and will be carried out one day. This clue is your life, your spiritual world. " -"The Meeting of Beauty"
Nowadays, society and education are very concerned about "practicality" and are pursuing "usefulness" and "significance". As far as reading is concerned, its "practicality" may not be noticed in the short term, but a book you read will actually leave a foreshadowing of life that you can't see in your life. Who knows?
Speaking of reading, I can still think of the book that aroused my childhood reading enthusiasm-Arabian Nights? Black cover, thick one, neighbor's. It is said that "books must be borrowed and unreadable." Although I prefer to read my own books now, because I have a sense of belonging. But at that stage of childhood, it seems that I really know how to cherish other people's books. I still remember some stories and even illustrations. I can't remember how many times I went to my neighbor's house for that book. Every time I go, I borrow books as treasures to enjoy, and the rest is aftertaste.
What's the use of the story in Arabian Nights to me? That book must not be the most practical book I have read for so many years. However, after so many years, many books I read later did not leave such a deep impression on my memory as that one. Every book we read is probably building our spiritual world. Those seemingly useless books actually connect our life course and build our humanistic atmosphere. Different books we have read will naturally make our humanistic atmosphere different.
As a teacher, I think we should read more books, not only by ourselves, but also with our children. As far as teachers and students are concerned, I always think that you can just do it and don't need to care too much about the results. After all, you don't know which book of yours lit which lamp in which child's heart.
Since attending the first-grade class, we have been reading a seemingly boring book on Chinese studies every day-Saint Amethyst, which contains history, humanity and morality. From the first day of studying together, I adopted a relaxed policy and did not make rigid requirements. I am a slow reader. I only read two sentences every day to understand the truth behind them. I have never been forced to recite them. Two semesters have passed, but I am surprised to find that most children can recite a long paragraph smoothly, and even three children can recite a whole paragraph.
At that moment, I deeply understood a truth: education is like sowing, not all the seeds you sow will blossom and bear fruit, but you should also believe that there are always a few seeds with tenacious vitality that can break through the ground and stand proudly on this land, which is enough. The significance of the book "Holy Amethyst" to them may lie not only in how much they know about Chinese studies and history, but also in letting them realize the process of learning and understand that as long as you pay attention to sowing, you will gain something. Just as Mr. Hu Shi said: how to harvest, pretend first.
The beauty of this world is even more sacred and precious when it comes to education. Walking on the road of education, hope is accompanied by beauty and forge ahead all the way. ...