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Education is a tree shaking another tree. What do you mean?
This was written by karl theodor jaspers, a German, and included in Jaspers' What is Education.

Original sentence:

Education is a crumbling tree, a cloud and a flower that awakens another soul.

Translation:

The essence of education is that a tree shakes another tree, a cloud pushes another cloud, and a soul awakens another soul.

Analysis:

The fundamental task of education is to pay attention to people's spiritual world, and the fundamental law of education should be to rely on people's spiritual strength to influence others' hearts and promote the healthy growth of others' spiritual strength like clouds pushing clouds.

Extended data:

Jaspers' masterpiece What is Education explores the depth of education and his unique understanding of education on the basis of existentialism philosophy, pointing out that education is the education of human soul, education is a generation, and the mission of education is to become a "complete person"

The cultural education advocated by him depends on the necessary atmosphere of education and communication, adopts Socratic educational methods, emphasizes equality and respect between teachers and students, formulates limited educational plans and perfects educational contents. In this way, education can cultivate and cultivate a new generation. He further pointed out that the real condition of education reform is not money, but a return to humanistic education itself.

Jaspers, a German existentialist philosopher, psychologist and educator, is a representative figure of existentialist educational thought. His main works are: The Idea of University (1946) and What is Education, which embodies his existential educational thought.