In our cognition, "defoliation" is a very common natural phenomenon. But the Guide doesn't think so. He would tell the children that the leaves fell because "the tree was too crowded and the leaves felt breathless, so they came down for a walk."
As children grow up, this "guide" will show them a world full of fun and infinite possibilities in his own way. This is a guide for children. In adult language, this is a kind of "thinking" and a kind of "creative thinking", which gives children a free and unconstrained imagination.
Many people realize that children's "creative thinking" is a valuable "thing". However, this kind of thinking will not stay in the child's mind forever. As children grow up, this kind of thinking will gradually solidify and even be "sealed".
How to cultivate and spread children's creative thinking to the maximum extent? "Education" is one of the most important means, especially children's art education.
So, what is the essence of education? IELTS Bells mentioned in What is Education: "The essence of education is awakening. Education is a tree shaking another tree, a cloud chasing another cloud, and a soul calling another soul. "
However, not all education is absolutely correct, especially in this era, there are still many problems in the general atmosphere of education:
First, the current education is mostly utilitarian and one-sided; To some extent, it limits the all-round development of individuals or children.
Second, the inculcation of knowledge is far greater than the cultivation of exploration and ability.
Third, the relatively closed atmosphere and school environment will make children out of touch with the society that needs to use their hands and brains to improve their living ability; This will do more harm than good to the development of children's body and mind, values and personality.
These problems cannot be solved perfectly in a short time; For children, the ultimate goal of education is to let them have independent thinking heads, independent personality, free body and mind, and all-round development; Then, a branch of education-children's art education will play an extremely important role in their all-round development.
Many educators at home and abroad have made a profound investigation and understanding of children's art education. They say that children's aesthetic education is to let children discover their external world, including the natural world and the humanistic world, so as to discover spiritual beauty, noble sincerity and kindness, and thus affirm their own value.
This is not just teaching children to draw a picture and make a work; Children's art education is actually to teach children to improve their comprehensive ability, which includes observation, perception, expression, imagination, aesthetics, creativity and so on.
Now artificial intelligence is more and more developed, and Ali AI "Luban" can make 8000 posters per second; AlphaGo can defeat Go masters, which tells us that artificial intelligence has the ability to rival human beings. People can be replaced by machines, so what's so special about human wisdom? This special feature lies in human appreciation of beauty, in the imagination space in the brain, and more importantly, in creativity; This is the part that the machine cannot surpass.
Children have rich emotions and a world of their own. But they can't find the opportunity to express themselves, or they can't express themselves. Then children's aesthetic education is an end and a means.
Yang Zhiguang Fine Arts hopes to use the unique TCT course to cultivate children's creative thinking and let them freely draw their inner "voice" with a brush; Let children experience the fun of painting in play and develop their body and mind in an all-round way in outdoor activities.
"Walking with the Times —— Review of 60 Years' Art Teaching in Yang Zhiguang and Exhibition in Yang Zhiguang Art Center"
Yang Zhiguang art study in the United States.
It is the goal of Yang Zhiguang's artistic struggle to make children the protagonists in the creative era. For the creative arts education in China and for the children, we have been working hard and never stopped.