Confucius is recognized as a great thinker and educator in the world. Following the trend of "academic downward movement", he first practiced civilian education and gave private lectures. He traveled around the world, preached the idea of "benevolent government" and accumulated a lot of valuable practical experience.

His profound philosophical thoughts and pedagogy theory are the great spiritual wealth of the Chinese nation, especially in the history of Chinese and foreign education, which is the first heuristic teaching with far-reaching influence. Confucius said in the Analects: "Don't be angry, don't be angry, don't be unhappy." If you don't occupy one corner, you will not object with three corners. "

Is to teach students not to enlighten them until they want to understand but can't; Don't inspire him until he wants to express himself without words. Teach him one aspect of knowledge, but he can't deduce the other three aspects of knowledge, so there is no need to teach him.

From The Analects of Confucius, we can see that he has a good understanding of students' learning, is better at reading words and observing emotions, understands students' psychological state, and can accurately grasp the opportunity of education, skillfully grasp the temperature and rhythm, so as to achieve the effect of making students draw inferences from others.

This kind of enlightenment education is to carry out the educational purpose of "teaching people to fish and enjoy it for life", rather than the short-sighted behavior of "teaching people to fish". Students' ability is cultivated in the process of knowledge transfer.

In addition, Confucius is always kind in the teaching process and can seriously answer students' questions. In order to make students understand thoroughly, he tried to inspire and induce with simple truth as much as possible, which benefited students a lot. Confucius once said: "A gentleman in the world has nothing to lose, but there is no Mo Ye, and benevolence and righteousness are compared." .

This is telling students that they must act according to morality, neither deliberately demanding nor unreasonably opposing; Regardless of the distance, we should treat them equally.

From the above remarks of Confucius, we can easily find that he has always advocated the use of heuristic education methods in the process of educating people. In classroom teaching, students should be the main body, but in traditional teaching, spoon-feeding teaching has become a common phenomenon, ignoring students' strong learning initiative, which is contrary to the teaching law.

We should learn and understand Confucius' heuristic education thought, attach importance to students' active learning, inspire and induce like Confucius, and fully embody and respect students' subjectivity.