The so-called negative education means that in the process of education, adults do not interfere, indoctrinate or suppress, so that children can follow the natural development. But negative education is not idle, there are two things to do:
Observe children in activities to understand their natural tendencies and characteristics; Be alert to the bad influence of the outside world. All this is because Rousseau insisted on the theory of good nature. He believes that human nature is good and nature is good, so he will rest assured that children will develop naturally. Rousseau's theory of returning to nature is a Copernican revolution in the history of education, which has brought earth-shaking changes to the concepts of education and children.
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Educators carry out purposeful, systematic and organized education and training on the mental development of educatees according to laws, regulations and industry norms, according to school conditions and professional titles, and use existing experience and knowledge to teach people, explain various phenomena, problems or behaviors for them, and improve their practical ability. Basically, it is to look at things with a relatively mature or rational thinking.
In it, people gradually moved from the touch of the senses to the state of cognitive understanding, forming a relatively perfect or rational conscious thinking. But at the same time, people have self-conscious thinking and their own sensory dimensions, so the conscious thinking of any education is not necessarily absolutely correct, but should understand the direction of their thinking in a perceptual way, as long as it does not deviate from the inherent essence of things.