During the Renaissance, many humanists attached great importance to education and cared about educational reform, and put forward educational theories reflecting the characteristics of the times. Although their educational theory is immature, it shines with the light of humanistic progressive thought and promotes the process of educational reform in the Renaissance.
Thought of works
Renaissance works embody humanism: advocating individual liberation and opposing asceticism and religious views in the Middle Ages; Advocate scientific culture, oppose obscurantism, and get rid of the shackles of the church on people's thoughts; Affirm human rights, oppose theocracy, and abandon all authority and traditional dogma as the basis of theology and scholasticism.
Supporting centralization and opposing feudal separatism are the main ideas of humanism. Among them, the representative works are Dante's Divine Comedy, Boccaccio's decameron, Petrarch's Song, Machiavelli's The Prince, and rabelais's Biography of the Giant.
Renaissance art praised the beauty of the human body, claiming that the proportion of the human body is the most harmonious in the world, and applied it to architecture. Although a series of paintings and sculptures still focus on religious stories, they all show the scenes of ordinary people and pull God to the ground.
Humanists began to study the Bible by studying classical literature and translated it into the national language, which led to the rise of the Reformation.
Humanism praises the secular and despises the heaven, flaunts rationality rather than the revelation of God, affirms that "man" is the creator and enjoyer of secular life, requires literature and art to express people's thoughts and feelings, scientifically seeks for the welfare of people, educates and develops people's personality, and requires people's thoughts, feelings and wisdom to be liberated from the shackles of theology. Advocating individual freedom has played a great role in historical development.