Life is education, which is the core view of Tao Xingzhi's life education theory. It has three meanings: (1) Education comes with people's life. Tao Xingzhi believes that since the emergence of human society, there has been human life and human education. Education changes with the change of human life. Life is constantly advancing, and so is education. He believes that "life education is the original, independent and necessary education of life". (2) Life and education are inseparable. Tao Xingzhi believes that "what kind of education you live, what kind of education you receive: you live a healthy life, you receive a healthy education;" If you live a scientific life, you will receive a scientific education; Live a life of labor and be educated by labor; If you live an artistic life, you will be educated in art; If you live a life of social revolution, you will be educated by social revolution. " "Education without life is useless. You need education from life, you need education from life, for life. "
And education Education is out of the need of life, and education is inseparable from life. "(3) Education is lifelong. Tao Xingzhi pointed out: "Life education is born with life. I was born with a bad reputation. Graduated from the coffin. "Education and personal life are closely related, that is to say, one should never be too old to learn.
It should be noted that "education" mentioned by Tao Xingzhi refers not only to school education, but also to the general education of the whole social life, including school education. Life is education, not that life is equal to education, but that education and life are the same process, education can not be separated from life, and life can not be separated from education.
2. Society is the school.
Society is school is another important proposition of Tao Xingzhi's life education theory, which is accompanied by "life is education". Tao Xingzhi's basic viewpoint of "society is school" is that schools should be unified with society, so that society can become a big school and form a big education system including family education and social education. This kind of school takes the blue sky as the top and the earth as the bottom. We are all teachers, students and classmates. He said: "The whole life and education are unified in the whole society." "Life is everywhere, that is, education is everywhere; The whole society is a place to live, that is, a place to educate. So, we can say again,
"Society is the school". "
Here, Tao Xingzhi turned Dewey's "school is society" upside down and put forward "society is school", because under the idea of "school is society", students learn too little and are divorced from social life, just like catching a lively bird from the sky and keeping it in a cage, moving social life into the school has not expanded the space of the school. "Society is school" has greatly increased educational materials, educational methods, educational tools, educational environment and places, and students can acquire more useful knowledge. Because the places where they live are all places of education, they go out of school and go to the society, treating factories, villages, shops, temples and prisons as schools and classrooms. The aim of Tao Xingzhi's "society is school" is to expand the scope and content of education and let the children of working people receive education suitable for their lives.
Tao Xingzhi advocated "society is school", another purpose is to change the current situation that school education only serves the powerful class, so as to promote universal education for the public.
3。 Integration of teaching, learning and doing
"Integration of teaching and doing" is the teaching theory of Tao Xingzhi's life education theory. In Tao Xingzhi's words, "integration of teaching and doing" is an explanation of life phenomenon, that is, an explanation of educational phenomenon. In life, doing things means learning for your own progress and teaching for your own influence. Teaching and doing are only three aspects of life, not three mutually exclusive processes. ""The teaching method is based on learning, and the learning method is based on doing. Learn to do things and teach to learn. Teaching without doing is not teaching; Learning without doing is not learning. Teaching and learning are centered on doing. Is an on-the-job teacher, sir,
It is the students who are doing school things. "