Art and humanities education

Humanistic education refers to education aimed at promoting the improvement of the educated's human nature, shaping their ideal personality and realizing their personal and social values. Its essence is humanistic education, and its core is to cultivate humanistic spirit.

basic feature

(1) Schools are no longer limited to training clergy, but to training people who understand secular knowledge, have humanitarian spirit and virtue, and can devote themselves to social progress. Some schools even take it as their training goal to cultivate bourgeois gentlemen with the qualities of bourgeois entrepreneurs, courtesy, dignified and generous manners, physical and mental health and pioneering spirit.

(2) Believe in the role of knowledge, learning and culture in promoting moral improvement, social progress and human progress.

(3) Latin and Greek become the main courses in the school, while classical literature occupies an important position in the school curriculum, and history and geography are included in the school curriculum. In some schools, mathematics and printing and dyeing science are important learning contents.

(4) Take games and sports as necessary components of education, and advocate the healthy development of people's body and mind.

Basic information

Education is originally human education, but we see that it unconsciously gives up the responsibility of educating "people" and dispels its own essence. People's education is neglected, and knowledge education and professional education are strengthened. Once education is divorced from people, from people's soul or spirit, it is not education strictly.

As Jaspers said: "Education is the education of human soul, not the accumulation of rational knowledge and understanding." In this sense, the important essential feature of education is its humanity, and humanistic education cannot be separated from education, including university education, which has an important basic position in university education.

abstract

It is the above factors, that is, the unique research object, unique thinking mode and research method and special critical spirit of humanities, that show that humanities, especially philosophy, literature, history and art, should become the core discipline of humanities education in the scope of disciplines. It is precisely because of this that the state should attach importance to the professional education of humanities.

That is to say, although the humanities education we refer to is broad, it is not professional, but it is closely related to the humanities education in the professional sense, because the humanities education in the professional sense can provide in-depth courses for the humanities education in the broad sense, cultivate high-level teachers and improve the humanistic atmosphere, thus directly or indirectly promoting the humanities education in colleges and universities.