Original sentence:
Education is that a tree shakes a tree, a cloud promotes a cloud, and one soul awakens another.
Translation:
The essence of education is that a tree shakes another tree, a cloud pushes another cloud, and a soul awakens another soul.
Analysis:
The fundamental task of education is to pay attention to people's spiritual world, and the fundamental law of education should be to rely on people's spiritual strength to influence others' hearts and promote the healthy growth of others' spiritual strength like clouds pushing clouds.
Extended data:
Jaspers' masterpiece What is Education, based on the philosophical foundation of "freedom, generation and transcendence", expounds his unique understanding of education in detail and deeply, and points out that education is the education of human soul, education is generation, and the mission of education is to become a "complete person".
He advocated cultural education, relying on the necessary atmosphere of education and communication, adopting Socratic educational methods, emphasizing equality and respect between teachers and students, making limited educational plans and perfecting educational contents. In this way, education can cultivate and produce a new generation. He further pointed out that the real condition of education reform is not money, but the return to human education itself.
About the author:
Karl jaspers, a German existentialist philosopher, psychologist and educator, is the representative of existentialist educational thought. His main works are: The Idea of University (1946) and What is Education, which embodies his existential educational thought.