In the history of western education, Aristotle first put forward the view that education should conform to nature, emphasized that education should adapt to children's age characteristics, advocated children's age staging, put forward the "education stage theory", and advocated staged education according to the law of children's psychological development.
The specific manifestations are as follows: the first stage is 0-7 years old, mainly in physical education class; The second stage is 7- 14 years old, with emotional and moral cultivation as the mainstay; The third phase 14-2 1 year-old, focusing on intellectual education. In addition, he also advocated the harmonious development of morality, intelligence and physique, which became the ideological source of all-round development of education later.
Aristotle mentioned three factors that make a person, namely, nature, habit and reason. Pay attention to human nature, form good habits in a good environment and proper behavior, develop human rationality through education, and make people become people with good virtue by accepting their own nature and habits.
Aristotle:
Aristotle (384 BC-March 7, 322 BC) was born in Starkila, Thrace, Greece. He was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, a student of Plato and a teacher of Alexander the Great. Together with Plato and Socrates, he is called the founder of western philosophy.
In 366 BC, he studied philosophy at Plato's Academy in Athens until his teacher Plato died. In 342 BC, he was hired by King Philip II of Macedonia and became the teacher of Alexander the Great, who was only 13 years old at that time. In 335 BC, he established his own school Lv Keang in Athens. In 322 BC, he died.
Aristotle is a master of Greek philosophy, studied under Plato, and is known as an encyclopedic philosopher. At the same time, he is also the founder of many disciplines, such as ethics, politics, physics, logic and so on. His important works include Metaphysics, Ethics, Politics and Analysis.