Rousseau believes that children are not adults, and their bodies, minds and thoughts have their own characteristics and development laws. Education should follow children's natural nature and adapt to their natural development stages. He advocated that education should be child-centered, respect children's nature, oppose adults imposing adult standards on children, and require educators to obey nature.

This thought has a far-reaching impact on modern education. Emphasizing that education should respect children's rights, pay attention to children's physical and mental development, and advocate personalized education is conducive to promoting the development of educational reform in a more humane and scientific direction.

The Importance of Education Adapting to Nature

First of all, from the perspective of natural science, it is a basic principle that education adapts to nature, emphasizing that education should follow the laws of nature and respect the laws of students' physical and mental development in order to promote students' all-round development. This not only helps to improve the quality of education, but also helps to cultivate talents with physical and mental health, innovative spirit and practical ability.

Secondly, the adaptation of education naturally helps to improve students' learning effect. If the contents and methods of education conform to the characteristics of students' physical and mental development, then students can better understand and master knowledge, thus improving the learning effect. On the other hand, if the contents and methods of education do not conform to the characteristics of students' physical and mental development, then students may feel confused and bored, and even tired of learning.

In addition, the adaptability of education naturally helps to cultivate students' innovative spirit and practical ability. In the education of conforming to nature, students can discover new problems and solutions through exploration, practice and reflection, thus cultivating their innovative spirit and practical ability. This kind of education not only helps to improve students' comprehensive quality, but also helps to cultivate high-quality talents to adapt to the future social development.

At the same time, the adaptation of education to nature also helps to promote educational equity. In traditional education, some students may not get enough educational resources because of family background, economic conditions, regional environment and other factors. The adaptation of education to nature emphasizes that education should pay attention to each student's individual differences and development needs, so that each student can get an education that suits him. In this way, educational resources can be distributed to each student more fairly, thus promoting educational equity.

However, in reality, there are still some problems in the implementation of the principle of education adapting to nature. Some schools and teachers may pay too much attention to test scores and enrollment rate, but ignore the concern about students' all-round development. Some schools may have problems such as insufficient teachers and lack of teaching resources, which also limits the implementation of the principle of adapting education to nature. We need to strengthen policy guidance and resource input, and provide more support and help for schools and teachers to ensure that the principle of education conforming to nature is better implemented.