Yan Zhitui advocates that the earlier the education for young children, the better. It is best to start with the fetus and carry out "prenatal education", that is, "teaching young children and teaching babies to be born again".
Ordinary people are limited by conditions. Even if they can't start from "prenatal education", they should try to educate their children as soon as possible. Yan Zhitui advocated early education, which was also influenced by Confucius' thought that "less becomes nature, and habit becomes nature" and took it as the guiding ideology. He believes that young children are more plastic and prone to peristalsis and blackening.
Advocating "Strictness and Kindness" Yan Zhitui believes that educating children is an important and serious issue, advocating "parents are dignified and kind" and opposing "loving without teaching". It is extremely serious to think that children are still young and treat education as a joke.
He criticized those parents who doted on their children, saying, "Eating and drinking are free. Be careful to flip the prize, but don't laugh at them." They didn't educate and stop their children's bad behavior and let them do whatever they want. When children "learn arrogance and dullness, they will imitate them and kill them without salt, and their anger will increase." When they grow up, they will eventually succeed or fail, and then they will regret it. He also advocates equal treatment for children and opposes son preference.
Pay attention to the influence of the environment on children. Yan Zhitui believes that most people's personalities are influenced by the acquired environment and education, so he pays special attention to the influence of the surrounding environment on children, and asks parents to pay special attention to the people and things that children come into contact with.
Yan Zhitui believes that there are "good people" in all walks of life, and he also explains from his own personal experience that "making friends carefully" and "making useful friends" are important ways to learn to be a man and learn to socialize. Yan Zhitui attaches importance to family education and early childhood education, advocates early education and prenatal education, and demands that learning should be beneficial to career. These are the essence of his family education thought, and also a valuable legacy with great influence in the history of early childhood education in China, which is worth inheriting and carrying forward.
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Yan Zhitui (5,365,438+0 years-about 5,965,438+0 years): Zi Jie, Han nationality, originally from Linyi (now Linyi City, Shandong Province), the grandson of Yan Jianyuan, an imperial historian of Southern Qi Dynasty, and the son of Xie Yan, a counselor of Southern Liang Dynasty. China, an ancient writer and educator, lived from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui Dynasty. He is the author of Yan Jiaxun, which has an important influence on the development history of family education. It is an important prose work in the late Northern Dynasties. Guanzi Fu Sheng is contained in Biography of Northern Qi Dynasty, and it is also a famous fu.