Humanism education in the Renaissance is the beginning of bourgeois education, which has the following characteristics:

(1) Starting from the worship of people, it is required to love and trust children and cultivate them into healthy, knowledgeable, versatile, enterprising people who are good at handling public and private affairs. This is actually an activist and pioneer who is actively engaged in economic, political and cultural undertakings. Compared with the feudal education of training monks and knights, this training goal can be described as a major change, which embodies.

(2) Advocating the restoration of physical education, moral education, intellectual education and aesthetic education in ancient Greece, and cultivating harmonious people.

First, resume exercise. In the Middle Ages, missionary schools abolished sports based on the idea that "the body is the prison of the soul". Humanists believe that the body is the condition for the soul to exist and get a happy life, attach great importance to the development of human physical strength, and advocate that people should have a healthy, coordinated and agile body through various sports activities.

In the aspect of moral education, the situation centered on religious thought has been changed, and education is required with the moral values of humanitarianism, freedom, equality, enjoyment and happiness. This new bourgeois realistic and utilitarian moral education is more progressive than the medieval religious education.

In terms of intellectual education, the scope of the course has been greatly broadened. Besides the Latin, Hebrew, Greek and theology of the Seven Arts, the courses of humanities and knowledge of nature were added, and by the late Renaissance, it had developed to nearly 20 disciplines, including grammar, literature, history, rhetoric, logic, ethics, arithmetic, algebra, trigonometry, geometry, geography, botany and zoology.

Intellectual education in this period not only attaches importance to imparting knowledge, but also attaches importance to developing intelligence, which requires stimulating curiosity and cultivating thinking ability in the teaching process.

The unprecedented prosperity of aesthetic education, literature and art has prompted humanistic education to attach importance to the cultivation of aesthetic ability. The school offers music, pictures and other subjects, which strengthens the implementation of aesthetic education.

In a word, in order to meet the needs of capitalist economic development and increasingly complex social life, humanists demand that people's physical and mental abilities be developed through various kinds of education, so that they can become perfect people with coordinated physical and mental development.

(3) In teaching methods, we should oppose the forced injection of scholasticism, rote memorization and stick discipline, and advocate stimulating children's interest in learning and giving full play to their initiative and enthusiasm; Pay attention to observation, emphasize intuition, and advocate visits; They demand respect for children, oppose corporal punishment, and propose teaching in their own language. These new methods were gradually popularized in practice, and later Comenius summarized them and formed systematic teaching principles and methods.