Li Bin Tiexi District Education Bureau

Several autumn evenings, while drinking black tea, I inadvertently picked up Krishnamurti's "Education is Emancipating the Mind", trying to explain my doubts and questions about education for many years, and also trying to perceive the direction of education from the dialogue with the master to comfort my heart. Outside the window, you sigh at the fallen leaves. It seems that a faint fragrance seeps into your heart. You feel an impulse of happiness and can't wait to immerse yourself in this Miri, Malaysia.

Education is emancipating the mind, which was written by Krishnamurti (1895- 1986), a world-famous spiritual teacher. He was born in India. I began to practice when I was young, and later I became a wise man with thorough understanding. All his life, he devoted himself to guiding people to know himself, illuminating himself with the light of his own nature and liberating himself. His lifelong teaching is to help mankind get rid of fear and ignorance and realize the realm of compassion and happiness. His works are composed of empty words and speeches, which have been translated into dozens of languages and left a wide and far-reaching influence in the world.

This book is very similar to several movies I have seen, one is Spring in the Cowherd Class and the other is Stars on the Earth. These films are all about education, and the theme is the same as this book. They all make education a pleasure in our hearts. What's more, they let students learn actively in a pleasant atmosphere. Let them have the desire to learn. Actively exploring, rather than doing things you don't like at the age when you should be happy, suppresses your psychology. Let them feel that learning is a burden and a task, and they can't really understand it. This also binds our children's hearts. This is not conducive to their development.

Many times I try to explain the current education to my peers: what is education for? In recent years, I have been asking myself: where is the direction and value of education, the inheritance of culture, the development of students' studies, the accumulation of knowledge and the promotion of social morality. It seems that every one is the goal of education, and it seems that every one is not the most real direction of education. The essence of all the great wisdom of the East and the West-know yourself.

There are 72 letters in the book. From the first time I read the letter, I felt the gap between me and the master. I don't seem to understand what he said. I have to watch it two or three times before I can feel it, but I still have a little knowledge of the meaning of some words. Let me talk about my feelings and thoughts on a few articles with some insights:

Education is to cultivate a complete person. Facing the society, our culture and education are only for students to get a satisfactory job and get the material guarantee of life. The constant pressure of society has evolved into the cause first. More specifically, money comes first and everything else comes second. The pursuit of utilitarianism and the value orientation of utilitarianism can neither bring harmony to social humanity nor guarantee personal happiness. On the contrary, it often makes our life unbalanced, the society loses credibility, and often makes our humanity mean and narrow. Is education only running on the narrow track of service to acquire knowledge, technology-superior occupation and treatment-material enjoyment and self-satisfaction? This kind of education will only make our hearts more narrow, limited and incomplete. All this has led to a mechanical lifestyle, a mental model, and gradually, this country ... has become a threat to freedom. "Education should inspire this freedom. The essence of Krishnamurti's freedom is a kind of "awakening of mind" and a kind of "blooming of mind" in which reason, emotion and body are in complete harmony. The growth of plants needs freedom, the exploration of ideological activities needs freedom, and the cultivation of personal self-reflection, free space, emotional immersion, free perception and physical health needs a free and safe environment. This freedom is the harmony between the inside and the outside, the fusion of love and wisdom, the need to fully integrate into development, and the need for harmony from perfection to beauty. Krishnamurti equates this freedom with "goodness", and goodness will only bloom in freedom, will not grow in the soil of "persuasion", and cannot be forced. " Goodness is manifested through actions, ……, and goodness is manifested through actions, … ". In the process of students' growth, we need to give them time and space to know themselves, guide them to reflect on themselves, know their own problems independently and correct themselves. Our education does not achieve expectations through "rewards and punishments", nor does it only focus on local priorities and ignore the harmonious development of the whole.

School education should pay attention to students' knowledge growth, ideological changes and physical development, and have enough time for students to observe what is happening around them and their own hearts, and observe the relationship between this change and themselves. First of all, education is common learning. Teachers and students are studying together to adapt to social development. Both teachers and students are learners. Teachers should not maintain a sense of superiority and authority of "I am an educator", and should not let students feel fear and inferiority in this oppression and tension. Secondly, education is to awaken his wisdom. Accumulated knowledge will not bring wisdom. Only by applying the process of acquiring knowledge to life experience, observing, understanding or discovering the overall structure of knowledge, and experiencing the whole process of problems, can we get rid of all kinds of fears facing authority, break through the shackles of culture, create self-knowledge and understanding, and awaken wisdom. The greatness of education lies in "bringing up new people". Teachers' duty is to follow students' curiosity and learn, break through, understand, construct and innovate together, which is the end of original knowledge and innovation. With the end of traditional knowledge, wisdom began to awaken. Third, education is not the responsibility of individuals, but the responsibility of all mankind. One tree, one bodhi, one flower and one world, you are not faced with a part on the assembly line, but a mistake only leads to the scrapping of a product, and the losses caused by it can be borne by people. You are facing an individual life, and one person may be all mankind. You can't separate the academic courses that are helpful to your career from the responsibility for the whole human life because of your own ideas, beliefs, your own work and your own major. We should not only pay attention to imparting knowledge, or adapt to the political and religious needs of society, or inherit national culture, but ignore the feeling of giving learners a deep understanding and being responsible for all mankind.

Education is a step forward in knowing yourself. The activity of life is learning. Every movement is a learning activity, and every relationship is learning; Knowledge accumulation is learning, observation is learning, and it is even more impressive learning. Home is the study place of family, school is the study place of friendship, emotional fluctuation is the study of emotion, experiencing life is the study of survival, and every growth is everywhere in the study. Education is not only to help learners to possess and remember knowledge, but also to help learners emancipate their minds from the shackles of "interests" and promote self-awareness and change. "Three provinces in one day" is exactly the same as Krishnamurti's self-understanding. First of all, know your own habits. Habit can easily numb the mind. In school, teachers are the most important people, and they are responsible for the future happiness of mankind. Education is the noblest cause, bearing all new hopes. Therefore, you must check the destructiveness of traditions, habits and repetitive patterns in your education. Especially habits, education under your habitual thinking, students' thinking is frozen and dull; Your habitual views may kill Edison; Your habitual contempt breeds evil. It is habit that corrupts education and even affects the development of human civilization. To know and change habits, we must have the courage to know the factors that restrict us, observe and analyze ourselves, find out all kinds of repetitive behaviors that are not conducive to students' development, study and growth, break the shackles, gain insight into the new environment that adapts to new needs, and create the space that is most suitable for students' free cognition and development, thus activating students' wisdom. Second, know wisdom and wisdom. The short-term understanding of education is to get a job, have an enviable career, or make your mind or hands dexterous. "If you are diligent, smart and witty in your study, this kind of education will ensure you have a bright future, and its brightness mainly depends on your position and environment in society." The essence of education is learning, not only from books, but also from the whole life process. You are learning other people's ideas, viewpoints, values, their judgments and countless experiences, but people can't become computers and accumulate knowledge and information. To learn the essence of thought from observing the world around us, we must understand ourselves, reconstruct and regenerate all the information in our brains, and form our own learning ability. This is cleverness and wisdom. Third, education is not about imposing your values or others' values on your students. Many times, we consciously or unconsciously regard the values of ourselves or a political party as the foundation of education, with the intention of profoundly influencing students and becoming the inheritors and promoters of such values. It is the worship of this kind of education that will produce lunatics with certain political beliefs, which may be a disaster for mankind. As an educator, we should enlighten human nature from the perspective of the development of all mankind, so that students can become a complete person. When all kinds of "pleasure" replace "love", such as physical pleasure, personal will, excitement, self-interest, rights and status and other forms of pleasure become value-oriented, society will be full of hypocrisy, the relationship between people will be indifferent, business activities will be full of fraud, and democracy, freedom and fairness will be lacking. At this point, education has become a disaster. Education is love, guiding students to know the world and paying attention to his (her) taking love as beauty. Your values must be to understand the whole existence of human beings, and compassion and friendship are the greatest wisdom. Let students "bloom freely" is the real value of education.

Leisure-the mind can only learn in leisure.

In this article, the author mentioned "relationship": relationship is life, and without it, people can't survive. The relationship between teachers and students exists, but the relationship mentioned by the author is not what we think casually. The book describes it like this: "Does the teacher consciously or unconsciously maintain a sense of superiority and always occupy an important position, so that students can have the inferiority complex of" I must be educated "? This model obviously doesn't matter. It leads to students' fear, a sense of oppression and tension. So students have learned this sense of superiority since childhood. He felt despised, so in his life, he either became an aggressor or kept surrendering and obeying. "After reading this passage, although I don't know what kind of relationship the author wants us to establish, I can understand one thing: teachers and students should establish a correct relationship, which is not the relationship between education and being educated, not simply the relationship between teaching and listening, but a harmonious and happy relationship. This is what the author will say next-the heart can only learn in leisure. By leisure, the author means that the mind is not always occupied by all kinds of things-by problems, by some kind of enjoyment, by the satisfaction of the senses; It means having unlimited time to observe what is happening around you and inside, to listen and to see clearly; It means freedom-the word is usually interpreted as "doing what you want", which is exactly what human beings do, causing a lot of harm, pain and confusion; It means having a calm heart, no motivation, so no direction; Only in this leisurely state can the mind learn, not only science, history, mathematics, but also yourself. " This kind of leisure seems a little hard to understand, but a careful evaluation of the author may be to let us do what we want with a calm heart. Learning is also a heartfelt need. You can't force it, but meet the needs of your inner world. Therefore, teachers can't force students to learn, nor can they force them to come. More importantly, we should establish the mentality of autonomous learning and fall in love with learning. These understandings don't seem to be the true expression of the author, but they are also my thoughts.

Knowledge accumulated will not bring wisdom.

After reading this article, I think the first paragraph is quite good: "knowledge does not lead to wisdom." We have accumulated a lot of knowledge about many things, but it seems almost impossible to act wisely according to what we have learned. Schools, colleges and universities teach knowledge about behavior, the universe, science and various technologies, but these educational centers rarely help a person to become an excellent person in daily life. " The author said that "knowledge" and "wisdom" are two different concepts. Knowledge is simple knowledge, mathematical knowledge, scientific knowledge, cosmic knowledge and so on, and knowledge of many things. Wisdom needs a deeper understanding. Not just accepting knowledge. It is awakening and thinking. Perhaps knowledge is limited, but wisdom is infinite. Only those who can think and realize are wise, and will abandon the old and welcome the new and create a new world. The new world needs people with wisdom, not people who only accept knowledge. As teachers, we should cultivate children with thinking and let them create a better future. Knowledge does not produce wisdom, but wisdom can use knowledge.

Teachers-Teachers are closely related to human growth.

In our minds, we think that education stops when we leave school, and we don't regard the whole life as a continuous and endless process of self-education. Faced with these, the author puts forward: What is the real meaning of education? What is the purpose of education and learning? What should teachers do through teaching? What is a teacher? Can you become a teacher just by imparting knowledge? For this series of problems, I think teachers should not just impart what they know to students, so that they can also be full of knowledge and use it to solve the problems they will encounter after class. This kind of thinking seems too narrow. After reading the book, I want to understand the author's explanation to the teacher. He explained that education is the greatest profession in the world, although it is the most disrespected profession, because if a teacher has deep and sincere care, he is lifting the limitations of people's hearts-not only his own, but also the hearts of students. It seems that I want teachers to emancipate themselves and students' minds. Perhaps it is the significance of education that he thinks in his own historical background. Now, in China, we should also think about this issue. Is our education really just about imparting knowledge? I think it is more important to cultivate children's character, at least let them know that they should be honest, upright and useful to society in the future. In order to actively educate students, teachers themselves must first be a good example. After reading this book, I was really confused, but I gained something. Maybe I should be a thoughtful teacher, a teacher who will keep pace with the times, constantly improve himself and update himself. Only in this way can I be worthy of the children who call me teacher.

I didn't understand every word before, but now I really feel that every sentence in this book is really thorough. I even think this is not just a book about education, it fully expounds the attitude of each of us, only in the role of students and teachers. It also plays a guiding role in our lives.

Immersed in the ideal ivory tower, the books of the masters made me feel a little cold from time to time in confusion and confusion, which made me remember myself clearly. How seriously I used to transform my own, perhaps social, students through education, forcing them to accept and guiding them to accept. Actually, education is very simple. It allows students to feel or think about the consequences of their actions. I believe that students have such wisdom, know themselves, know everything about life and society, and don't have to force them with your thoughts. Wisdom comes from every ordinary and wonderful moment in the process of understanding.

The opinions expressed in these letters are of great value to parents, educators, students studying education and other people concerned about education. If you are willing to study, read with a learning attitude. Just as you want to know a flower, you must observe its flower, its stem, its color, its fragrance and its beauty very carefully. These letters should also be studied in this way, instead of just reading them all morning and then forgetting them. You must give it some time, ponder it, question it, explore it deeply but don't believe it, spend some time with it, digest it and make it your own.

When we read Krishnamurti's books, we should think while reading, and be as carefree as he said. The profound ideas in the book are confusing and can't help but make people think deeply. ...