Locke attached great importance to health education and put forward that "a healthy spirit lies in a healthy body". "Before we can work and be happy, we must have health. To this end, he put forward a set of suggestions to keep healthy. For example, he thinks that children should do more outdoor activities, breathe fresh air, exercise more, sleep more, take less medicine, and their clothes should not be too warm or too tight; He advocates a light diet and thinks that the best food for children is milk, porridge, bread, vegetables and fruits. Children should have a good bed exercise, so that they can be trained into strong, brave and determined people.
Locke also has a clear idea about moral education. He believes that moral education is the soul of gentleman education, and possessing ideal virtues can make individuals happy and contribute to the success of his career.
Locke put forward that a gentleman must have four moral qualities: rationality, etiquette, wisdom and courage;
1, to cultivate reason is to be able to control and dominate yourself with reason, restrain your desires and obey the guidance of reason.
2. The cultivation of etiquette refers to letting children learn manners, manners and manners, know the world, be polite, elegant and friendly.
3. The cultivation of wisdom refers to the cultivation of a skill, which enables people to have the ability, foresight and be good at handling specific affairs. Children should be trained to be frank, fair and intelligent.
4. Brave practice. Locke believes that courage and perseverance are the basic virtues of a gentleman and the qualities of a truly valuable person. Therefore, it is necessary to cultivate children's courage from an early age, so that they can endure pain, overcome cowardice and fragile nature, and be resolute, decisive and brave.
Locke advocates that parents should set an example and demonstrate when moral education is given to their children. We should fully practice good behavior and make it a habit; Reasoning with children, children should also be rewarded, including respect, praise and praise, but Locke opposes corporal punishment. It is believed that punishment should be avoided as far as possible, but the necessary blame and reprimand can also be retained, but it cannot dampen the child's self-esteem.
In intellectual education, Locke emphasized the cultivation of learned people. On the one hand, he asked gentlemen to acquire knowledge, increase their knowledge and develop their intelligence through various studies and research; On the other hand, skills and skills need to be acquired through various skills and skills courses. Children should learn reading, writing, painting, shorthand, foreign languages, composition, theology, geography, arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, history, ethics, law, logic, rhetoric, natural philosophy and so on. Skills include dancing, music, fencing, horse riding, painting, gardening, joinery, incense, oil decoration, sculpture, iron, copper and silver works, rigidity, polishing, matching gems or polishing optical glass, business calculation, traveling abroad, etc.
Regarding the method of intellectual education, Locke thinks that the key is to let children love and respect knowledge, and let students take appropriate methods to seek knowledge, improve themselves and increase their desire for knowledge.