Details are as follows:
1, the essence of education is eternal;
2. The purpose of education is to "draw out the common elements in our humanity";
3. Eternal classic subjects should occupy a central position in the school curriculum;
4. Promote entertaining through education.
Secular eternalists agree with the viewpoint of educational progressivism: memorizing a lot of factual information and paying attention to indirect knowledge (second-hand information) in books can not develop rational thinking. They advocate learning by developing meaningful conceptual thinking and judgment, and the means are directional reading of bibliographies and meaningful western classics.
These books, written by the best thinkers in the world, have accumulated great dialogues about the core issues of mankind. These books are the product of genius. They are geniuses, but they are us, and they are our common foundation. Hutchins told us:
"Great masterpieces are great teachers; They showed us what ordinary people can do every day. These books drive away ignorance and explore human nature. They usually succeed in remembering the first announcement. Most of them are written for ordinary people. "
It should be pointed out that great dialogue is not static, and this impression may come from some descriptions of eternalism by religious eternalism, or even the terminology of eternalism itself. As a representative of the change or progress of human thought, great dialogues and related great masterpieces are also changing, so it is a representative of the evolution of thought, but it is not a whim or the latest cultural trend fantasy. Hutchins made it very clear:
"In the course of history ... new books won their place. There is no mention of whether the founders and original communicators of existing religions are people, but the object of their communication is people. People don't exist from the beginning of time, so the existing religion is not eternal.
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Eternal education is more radical in criticizing progressive education than essentialism, but it does not put forward any new value judgment standards on the whole. As an educational idea, it has a certain influence on educational theory, but its influence in educational practice is not great, mainly limited to universities and a few people in the upper intellectual circles. Its retro attitude has been criticized by many related people.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-eternal education