Briefly describe the characteristics of "whole person" and humanistic education put forward during the Renaissance.
Answer: (1) Characteristics of "whole person": During the Renaissance, many educators advocated "free education" and cultivated "whole person", such as Giorgio and Vitorino. F. Girio advocates the implementation of holistic education for teenagers and the cultivation of people with all-round physical and mental development. F. Girio's definition of holistic education is: an education that conforms to the value of a free person, enables the educated to acquire virtue and wisdom, and can develop the education of the highest talents that ennobles people's body and mind; Victorino accepted the ancient Greek Aristotle's idea of cultivating people with harmonious development, and thought that the purpose of education was to cultivate people with harmonious physical and mental development. It advocates setting up humanities courses with classical Chinese as the central content. Courses range from primary reading, writing, arithmetic, Latin and Greek to traditional "seven arts", ancient teachings and even knight skills, including cultural education that could be imagined at that time, realizing the harmonious unity of classical literature, Christianity and knight education. This multi-cultural curriculum content later became the basis of intelligence training in European classical middle schools. (2) Characteristics of humanistic education: First, humanity. Humanism education pays attention to the development of personality in training objectives, opposes asceticism in teaching methods, respects children's nature, and firmly believes that education can reshape acquired strength, reshape individuals, and transform society and nature, all of which show the connotation of humanism and fully affirm human strength and value. Second, classicism. Humanistic educational thought has absorbed many viewpoints of the ancients. The educational practice of humanism, especially the curriculum, is classical, but it is not purely retro, but serves the present, which is a kind of progress at that time. Third, secularity. No matter from the aspects of educational purpose or curriculum, humanistic education is full of strong secular spirit, paying attention to human nature rather than Shinto, and education pays more attention to this life rather than the afterlife, which is very different from the Middle Ages. Fourth, religion. Humanistic education is still religious, and almost all humanistic educators believe in God. Although they attacked the shortcomings of the Catholic Church, they did not oppose religion and did not intend to destroy it. They hope to transform the stale and overbearing religion in the Middle Ages with secular and humanistic spirit, so as to create a more secular and humanistic religion. Fifth, noble. This is determined by the nature of the Renaissance movement (not the mass movement), and the object of humanistic education is mainly the children of the upper class; The forms of education are mostly palace education and family education, not mass education; The main purpose of education is to cultivate elites such as monarchs, courtiers and gentlemen.