Under the background of sufficient material conditions, rapid development of artificial intelligence and convenient social services, what do we hope to give our children through labor education? Perhaps not only let them learn to wash clothes, cook and clean, but also let children feel that they have the ability to create a better life from their work.
1. Labor education is easily overlooked today.
The labor of acquiring knowledge through personal practice is the main means of the origin and development of human civilization. Labor education was once the tradition of school education in our country, and it was the key link to cultivate talents with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique and art. For a long time, almost all primary and secondary schools offered labor classes.
However, today, labor education has become an easily overlooked education. According to the survey, 72% of students realize that both physical and mental labor are labor, 56.2% of students think that there is no minimum labor in society, and only 6.8% of students are willing to be skilled workers or farmers in the future. With the upgrading of study years, the proportion is still declining, so the reality is not optimistic.
When labor education is absent and alienated again and again, students can only complete the so-called "growth" on "paper". The diversity and plasticity of education have been seriously challenged. While schools and families despise and weaken labor education, they have to silently bear the bitter fruit of neglecting labor education.
2. Understanding of labor education
Labor cannot be simply understood as washing clothes, cooking and cleaning. Reflected in education, it is the practice of knowledge; Reflected in social production, it is a means to create real value.
Using more words to describe labor can be pragmatic, practical, operational and practical ... this is something that almost all people's senses should know and learn. The significance of labor education is to let students measure the world of physics and mind with their bodies.
Mathematician Paulia said: "The best way to learn any knowledge is to let students discover it themselves, because this kind of discovery is the deepest to understand and the easiest to grasp the internal laws and connections."
Only by understanding this point can we pay attention to "labor" in three dimensions: body, mind and spirit, and establish its important position in the school education system.