1920 65438+On February 5th, Cai Yuanpei put forward aesthetic education. In his speech at Nanyang Overseas Chinese Middle School in Singapore, Mr. Cai said that a complete personality is also a sound personality. He talked about the review education conference in China years ago, and defined the purpose of general education as: to cultivate a sound personality; Carry forward the Republican spirit. The so-called healthy personality is divided into four kinds of education. Physical education, intellectual education, moral education and aesthetic education are equally important.

Contact and difference:

Aesthetic education, moral education, intellectual education and physical education are all indispensable and important contents in educational activities. They are independent of each other and penetrate each other, which is a dialectical relationship of mutual promotion.

The purpose of intellectual education is to impart scientific and cultural knowledge and cultivate people's ability to seek truth. Moral education is to temper people's moral quality and cultivate people's will to be good; The purpose of sports is to strengthen people's physique and cultivate people's strong physique; Aesthetic education is to directly infect people's inner feelings, mobilize people's various psychological abilities and make them move harmoniously.

The definition of aesthetic education:

Also known as aesthetic education. That is, by cultivating people's ability to know beauty, experience beauty, feel beauty, appreciate beauty and create beauty, people will have beautiful ideals, good sentiments, good character and good cultivation.

In a narrow sense, aesthetic education is defined as "art education" in the extreme sense. Its general definition is: aesthetic education refers to aesthetic education, aesthetic education, aesthetic education and aesthetic literacy education. Aesthetic education in a broad sense, some people think: "The real aesthetic education is the education formed by infiltrating aesthetic principles into the teaching of various disciplines."

Another dimension change in the process of defining aesthetic education from narrow sense to broad sense is: from formal aesthetic education to substantive aesthetic education. The so-called "formal aesthetic education" refers to educational activities aimed at cultivating the aesthetic quality of the object (such as aesthetic ability, ability to appreciate beauty and create beauty, etc.). On the other hand, "substantial aesthetic education" pursues the spiritual essence of aesthetic education through the above goals: the aesthetic taste of life and the aesthetic realm of education. It has become the core of modern aesthetic education to emphasize the promotion of aesthetic education to poetic life.

In this way, the concept of aesthetic education should not only move from narrow sense to broad sense, but also realize the revolution from form to substance.