What is the meaning of education? Many people think that education is "mature people can make their conscious immature people have certain purposes and methods". Although this statement cannot be said to be wrong, it is always vague. Another example is Dewey's so-called "education is life", and Shu Xincheng's so-called "education is an activity that starts life, and its purpose is to create independent individuals for society and create a society of mutual assistance for individuals; The method is to use social (natural and social environment) stimulation to enable the educated to automatically solve problems and create life. " (See General Theory of Education) These theories are too vague to really reveal the specific meaning of education.
I thought education should refer to school education. Therefore, education is to use the school as a tool to teach the old knowledge system to the younger generation, so that they can form a personality suitable for the established society, so as to maintain and develop this society. Therefore, education is a tool for human beings to obtain survival materials and manage their lives. Education is not an end in itself, but a tool. This kind of tool can save the country and society, and the small one can guide individuals, reform mistakes and realize instinct. It has a great effect.
What is the meaning of life? The so-called "life" includes people's material life and spiritual life. Everyone's view of life is the so-called "outlook on life". It is a happy outlook on life to think that life is happy. Dedicating one's life to the country and society is a responsible outlook on life. Everyone's environment is different, so their outlook on life is different. The purpose of school education is to help students develop a correct outlook on life, so we have to pay attention to the relationship between education and life.
The relationship between education and life can be summarized as follows:
First, know yourself through education. The saddest thing in the world is that you don't know yourself. Some people go astray because they don't know their fate, everything falls, their careers are unsuccessful, and even their lives are endangered. How dangerous it is.
There are two aspects to knowing yourself: one is your own subject, or "self"; One is one's own environment, or "external things" or "things". Only the self will not have a correct understanding; You can't know yourself only through the objects you know. We must understand the relationship between subject and object and the environment before we can know ourselves. So the first thing we need to know is our environment. Our actions are closely related to the environment, which has the power to dominate or determine life, and also has the power to lure life to a certain path; It is inevitable that we are dominated and tempted by all kinds of foreign objects, not accidental. Therefore, if we know our own environment, our actions will be targeted and meaningful, and will not become blind and improper behavior.
After knowing the environment, you should know yourself. To know yourself, the most important thing is your own positioning. Whether a person can fulfill his responsibilities depends on whether he knows his position. Everyone's position is originally a reflection of the environment, but dealing with the environment is different from person to person, not mechanically dominated by the environment. So for the environment, there is a difference whether it can adapt or not. Adaptation is neither submission nor resistance, but proper use. Using the environment, in addition to understanding the environment, we should first pay attention to our position, followed by our ability, and the third is the role that our ability can play in our position. Therefore, it is necessary to know the environment and self.
It is not easy to know the environment of the object and the status of the self-subject. You must have considerable knowledge to distinguish right from wrong and black and white. This is of course the responsibility of education. Education should not only increase students' knowledge and learning ability, but also guide them to the right track, so that they can understand the general trend of the world, the situation of their own country and their mission and personal position.
Second, innovate yourself through education. Since we know ourselves and the environment, we should devote ourselves to self-innovation. Innovation can be divided into two aspects:
On the one hand, it is to eradicate all obstacles, such as vanity and laziness. Ordinary people are easily controlled by these magical forces and can't control themselves. This is a flaw in human nature. But human nature also has many advantages, such as kindness, knowledge and so on. We should develop our strengths and eradicate these shortcomings.
On the other hand, it is to innovate the wrong ideas of the past. When we understand the environment and our position, we should get rid of the wrong ideas in the past and take a new route. A person always has his own outlook on life and world. The more progressive people are, the more they know about society, which constitutes the basis of human behavior. After we know the environment and ourselves, we will definitely know a lot about these things. Although there are elements of innovation in our instinct, there are also elements of infatuation with the past, so it is very important to innovate the wrong ideas of the past.
To eradicate all obstacles and innovate past misconceptions, we must work hard on education. Because how to eradicate vanity and laziness and how to innovate wrong ideas are all driven by the power of education.
Third, achieve yourself through education. It is a natural step to innovate yourself by knowing yourself and to achieve yourself by innovating yourself. How can we achieve our goal? This is of course necessary for the institute. I think we should achieve ourselves according to our own specialties and interests. For example, those who like science can work hard on science; Those who love literature or political economy can work hard in literature or political economy. It's easy to succeed. Education is essential for people to realize themselves in this way. It can be seen that education has a great responsibility for life.
No matter which of the above three things is missing, it is difficult to become a sound molecule. Future education should start from these three points, especially for middle school students, and special training should be carried out. I hope the person in charge of education will pay attention.