The ancients always thought that mastery and mastery could only be achieved with knowledge. Huai Nan Zi said, "You gain wisdom without pains". General education can cultivate people with all-round development, which can also be called all-round development. In Lun Heng, it is said: "Exposing ancient and modern people is a universal person", "Reading more than a thousand books, less than 10,000 volumes, developing elegant words, examining and approving documents, taking professors as teachers, being a universal person" and "being a universal person is all the words of a hundred schools of thought". General education can produce generalists, that is, people who are well-read, familiar with nature and humanities, ancient and modern, knowledgeable, flexible, reasonable and versatile.
Educational idea
General education and junior college education are just different choices of educational models, which are essentially caused by different understandings of "education".
General education focuses on "teaching" rather than "teaching", because there is no rigid division of majors in general education, and the choices it provides are diversified. Students gain freedom and natural growth through diversified choices. It can be said that general education is a kind of humanistic education, which transcends utility and practicality. The reason why we should follow the example of "scholars and thinkers in universities" is that they have the valuable qualities of independent personality and independent thinking, which is the ultimate pursuit of general education. Because education is not a production line in the workshop, it produces the same model and the same thinking. Is to develop and tap the potential and spiritual temperament of different individuals. Because general education is to "cultivate" real "people" rather than "products".
The Significance of General Education
? General education is actually the most effective way to realize quality education. In general education, it is necessary to carry out "personalized quality education with the unity of erudition and precision", and divide general education into five modules: philosophy and social science literacy, humanistic literacy, natural science and technology literacy, aesthetic art literacy and practical ability literacy. Encourage students to choose courses freely according to their own reality across disciplines and fields, fully develop their personality and be knowledgeable; Encourage students to choose courses independently from their own reality, enhance their learning initiative and improve their quality in an all-round way.
Perplexity and direction of general education
"Lack of general education" is the biggest dilemma of general education. Due to the discipline-based education model formed in China's basic education for many years and the long-term guiding role of exam-oriented education, basic education has become more and more in-depth in single-discipline education, with intensified discipline differentiation, and its utility in basic education has become more and more obvious, while its utility in general education such as humanities, mind and wisdom is weak. Basic education has moved towards a single, narrow and rigid model, lacking speculative and creative thinking, which is very unfavorable to the wisdom cultivation of the Chinese nation.
In order to change this situation of basic education, Mr. Li Jing resolutely resigned from the provincial government and other public offices to devote himself to the research and practice of basic quality education. After years of investigation and study, Regent divides holistic education into three levels: spiritual and emotional education, skill education and creative education. He believes that from the perspective of children's learning psychology and ideological development, basic education is the main construction stage of spiritual and emotional education, including the ideological basis of emotion, art, language, thinking and speculation. It can also be said that basic education is spiritual education. Therefore, in the basic education stage, we need to provide children with a universal spiritual education, in which talents are discovered, not cultivated. Li Jing believes that our current basic education, especially primary education, is a rigid education with a single subject model. It is an education that first endows adults with a strong utilitarian setting "talent", which greatly squeezes the space of spiritual education and is not conducive to the cultivation of speculative and creative thinking.