Primary education is called basic education, which plays an important role in the whole life education stage. High-rise buildings have sprung up, and education, like high-rise buildings, must be built on a solid foundation, and primary education plays such a role.
Basic characteristics of primary education
(1) Basic
China implements a school education system that combines preschool education, primary education, secondary education, higher education and adult education. Primary education is the foundation.
(2) Nationality
Broadly speaking, universality means that primary education must be open to all. In a narrow sense, popularization means that primary education must be open to all school-age children.
(3) Obligations
Primary education is for all school-age children, and any minor citizen, regardless of race, nationality, sex, color, language and socioeconomic status, must receive primary education as long as he reaches a certain age.
(4) comprehensiveness
Primary education is an all-round education for children's moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic development. Primary education is the education of general basic knowledge and basic skills for all children.
The influence of Comenius' educational thought on China's primary education
The principle that education adapts to nature is a fundamental guiding principle that runs through Comenius' whole educational theory system. He believes that everything in the universe and human activities have an "order", that is, the laws of the universe, to ensure the harmonious development of everything in the universe.
He regards following the universal law of "order" as an important content of adapting education to nature, and another important content is advocating education according to human nature and children's age characteristics. This is also one of his important educational thoughts on primary education and teaching in China.
He mentioned in the Great Teaching Theory: "Our motto should be to follow the leadership of nature in everything, observe the secondary development of ability, and base our methods on the principle of this order." He even pointed out clearly that schools at all levels "teach step by step according to the age and existing knowledge of students from beginning to end". Now it seems that this is obviously correct.
In today's primary education and teaching in China, teachers should pay attention to following the educational laws, rationally design and arrange educational and teaching activities according to the laws and characteristics of students' physical and mental development, impart knowledge step by step, and avoid the tragic ending of "pulling out seedlings to help others".
In primary school teaching, we should admit that students are the main body of learning, and teachers, as guides, encourage students to explore and find problems themselves, so as to solve problems and achieve continuous breakthroughs and continuous improvement in learning effects.