I. Republic

The Republic is a philosophical dialogue work written by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato (427- 347 BC). This book mainly discusses the construction, governance and justice of Plato's ideal country, with the theme of state management.

Plato's Republic is his masterpiece, involving many fields such as politics, education, ethics and philosophy. His thought is broad and profound, which almost represents the whole Greek culture. From 20 15 to 1 1, The Republic was rated as one of the 20 most influential academic books in British Academic Book Week.

Second, "educational ramble"

Random Talk on Education is a book published by Education Science Press in May 1 1, 2065438. The author is John Locke. The Chinese version was translated by Fu Rengan. The whole book discusses "gentleman education" and expounds how to educate gentlemen from three aspects: morality, intelligence and physique.

Random Talk on Education is a compilation of several letters that the author wrote to his friends E and Clark to discuss children's education during his exile in the Netherlands (1683 ~ 1689). Published in 1693.

Three. On education

The main educational works of Spencer, a British positivist philosopher and sociologist. Formerly known as education-intellectual education, moral education and physical education. It is compiled from four educational papers published by Spencer: 1854, 1858 and 1859. Published in London on 186 1. 1923, China Commercial Press published an abridged version of the book. 1962, People's Education Publishing House published a full translation.

Four. Democracy and education

Democracy and Education is an educational work written by American philosopher john dewey. First appeared in 19 16. This book comprehensively expounds Dewey's pragmatic education theory basically formed in Chicago Experimental School and the theoretical discussion of educational reform at that time, and puts forward the clear objectives and methods of building new education.

Dewey especially emphasized the practical value and humanistic value of education, attached importance to the influence of education on people's morality and social development, and made education get rid of the isolated scope of knowledge transmission, and regarded education as an important aspect of social activities, so that education gained its due position in modern social life.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) pedagogy of the oppressed

This book introduces the theory and practice of liberation education of freire, a famous educator in developing countries. This theory aims at cultivating critical consciousness, clarifies the relationship between education and consciousness from the perspective of cultural anthropology, guides adult literacy education in developing countries, puts forward situational dialogue teaching method and pays attention to the combination of education and reality.

Freire's educational theory and practice have had a great influence all over the world, especially on the educational reform and development in developing countries.