I have been engaged in education for 20 years! What is the initial intention of our education? Why are some bad phenomena such as campus violence, jumping off buildings, teacher killing and teacher corporal punishment common? Why didn't there be more promotion of quality education in the sixties and seventies of last century or even beyond? At that time, there were a lot of talents in sports, music and beauty in the school, but in recent years, there are no music and beauty classes in physical education class, and the campus has lost its singing? Why didn't we advocate reducing the burden when we were young and didn't feel burdened? Now we advocate reducing the burden, and children can't finish their homework before 10 pm? Where will we move on?

The word "education" can be seen from the literal understanding. The original intention of "teaching" is to urge people to be filial with a whip, and its essence is to apply external effects and internal effects, from the outside to the inside. Judging from Oracle Bone Inscriptions's glyph, the original intention of "education" is that women have children, and its essence is nurturing and nurturing, from the inside out. Only by correctly understanding "teaching" and "education" can we fundamentally understand the essence and origin of education and grasp the essence in the process of teaching and education.

In a sense, the present education has changed its original meaning. In a word, education now is "utility". Education serves utility. Whether it is primary school, junior high school, high school or university, whether it is parents, teachers or others, the concept instilled in children is that you can find a good job by getting into a good school through education. Therefore, education is utilitarian to a certain extent, of course. Facing the current fierce competition, education can not escape its utilitarian role in solving employment, because education itself bears the responsibility of knowledge inheritance, and the acquisition of knowledge will naturally be chosen or abandoned by occupation. A well-educated person is bound to be chosen by a good career, because he has the conditions required by this career. These are all understandable. If we completely abandon the purpose of employment and utility, it is not in line with the wishes of China people at present.

However, if education is completely kidnapped by employment and utilitarianism, the result is that education becomes a utilitarian weapon under the guidance of utilitarianism, then there will be the problem of educational deviation. The so-called educational deviation is actually that education deviates from the regularity of education itself and the regularity of human growth, which brings some bad phenomena in education, such as tearing books, campus violence, jumping off buildings and Korosensei, because utilitarian education ignores the regularity of human growth and people's hearts.

Educating Do not forget your initiative mind actually means that we educators should not forget the teacher's initial intention of "learning from a height and being a model". Only teachers continue to learn and improve their self-cultivation, influence children's self-cultivation with their good life self-cultivation, and influence children's enterprising spirit with their continuous progress. The so-called empathy with heart and empathy with emotion is the truth.

Education does not forget its own initiative, which actually tells us that imparting knowledge is only a part of education, not the whole, because education itself includes not only the inheritance of knowledge, but also the cultivation of human nature. That's what moral education means. Education is both moral education and moral education, and moral education is the premise of moral education, because the most terrible thing for a person is to lose virtue, and the most tragic thing is to use high education and high level as a weapon to kill. If a person has moral problems, the higher his education, the greater the harm to society, so he won't.

Not forgetting the initial intention of education actually tells us to constantly reflect on the educational and teaching behavior, constantly improve the educational and teaching behavior, influence the immortal nature of children with high-quality education level, and influence the best conduct in children's hearts with solid moral guidance. We can't just walk with our heads down, because if we don't face up to the reality of children's growth and the changes in their environment, then we will forget the origin of our departure in the process of walking.

"I am confident that if I live for 200 years, I will be a water hammer with a distance of three thousand miles." A person who does not forget his own initiative is to wash away all the lead and not forget his own roots, while a teacher who does not forget his own initiative can maintain the fundamental and pure morality for a long time. We have reason to believe that as long as we don't forget our enterprising spirit, as long as we are brave in change and innovation, our education will certainly hand over new and better answers to our children and society!