First, emphasize the basic position of early childhood education and attach importance to the early training of talents.

Tao Xingzhi attaches great importance to early childhood education, which is the basic education of life. He gave full play to the fine tradition of "teaching children and raising children" in ancient China, and clearly pointed out: "Early childhood education is the foundation of life, and we should stand for him." He also told people according to the research results of children's psychology: "Personality education depends on the cultivation before the age of six. All attitudes, habits and tendencies in life can establish an appropriate foundation in childhood. " In his view, the education of children before the age of 6 will lay a foundation for a person's personality, intelligence and physique, and once this foundation is laid, it is not easy to change, so it cannot be sloppy. If "this period is well cultivated, you only need to grow and improve after cultivating him, and naturally become an outstanding member of society;" If the training is not good, then the habits will not change, the tendency will not change, and the attitude will not change. " These bad habits, bad tendencies and bad attitudes that have been formed will be corrected after they enter school. Even if the teacher spends a lot of effort, it is often very hard and difficult to achieve. Therefore, Tao Xingzhi shouted: "People with lofty ideals should start kindergartens from scratch and teach children truth."

Second, adhere to the "integration of teaching" and advocate teaching students in accordance with their aptitude.

"Life education" is a life-centered education. So, how to educate in life? The most fundamental principle and method is "integration of teaching and doing". It means: "teaching methods, learning methods, learning methods, and doing methods." Teaching is to let children know how to do it through "learning by doing and going to school by doing". The essence of "integration of teaching and learning" is to teach and learn according to the needs of life, and to teach through life practice, so that children can acquire the real vitality and creativity needed by life practice and become "real people". Tao Xingzhi once vividly said: "Pine trees and peony flowers need different fertilizers", and used this as a warning to warn people: "Education and educating people, just like planting flowers and trees, must first understand the characteristics of flowers and trees, and give fertilization, watering and training education according to different situations. This is called' teaching students in accordance with their aptitude'. " Tao Xingzhi also stressed that teachers should give their children "fingers that touch the stone into gold" instead of "gold", and resolutely oppose unrealistic compulsory indoctrination education for children without understanding their characteristics and abilities. In his view, teachers and parents play a leading role in the process of educating children. Teachers and parents should join the children's team and become one of them, so as to understand the children's hobbies and personality characteristics, find an educational method suitable for children's reality, and teach students in accordance with their aptitude. For example, in kindergarten education, some teachers lack in-depth understanding of children, let alone study children, and can only take care of or instill them according to the script, without much consideration of the personality characteristics and intellectual level differences of the whole class. In this way, some children with special skills can't get reasonable training and development, while others so-called "poor students" are ignored or even let themselves go. As for the phenomenon that some parents rush to buy pianos and computers for their children, blindly hire tutors, force their children to learn this and practice that, and completely ignore their own needs, it is not uncommon. These practices violate children's age characteristics and psychological laws, and the consequences are quite serious, from sacrificing children's childhood happiness to educational mistakes.

Third, advocate the liberation of children and cultivate their creativity.

Children are "powerful" and "creative" This kind of creativity is the essence of the talent that human beings have acquired and passed down after hundreds of thousands of years of struggle with the environment. It is an important task of education to exert, strengthen and cultivate this kind of creativity. He once pointed out clearly: "Education can't create anything, but it can stimulate children's creativity to engage in creative work." Education emphasizes cultivating children's creative spirit and ability. In order to give full play to children's creativity, educators should "become children", join children's lives, discover children's creativity, further liberate children's creativity, and return the freedom of learning and creation to children. 1. Emancipate children's minds and let them think; 2. Emancipate children's hands and make them capable; 3. Liberate children's eyes so that they can see; 4. Liberate children's mouths so that they can talk; 5. Free children's time, don't force them to take exams, and let them learn what they desire; 6. Liberate children's space and let them get in touch with nature and society. The teacher's responsibility to children is to guide them to learn, think and create, not to replace them. In addition, he also specifically asked educators to be tolerant of children, rather than letting themselves go. Don't suppress children's creativity and destroy talented people. For example, in today's early childhood education, it is common to pay attention to knowledge transmission and ignore ability training; Heavy mechanical memorization, light flexible use; Attaching importance to teachers' leading role and ignoring children's dominant position have bound children's hands and brains, bound children's hands and feet, and hindered the development of children's thinking and creativity. In kindergarten education, teachers can use all kinds of ready-made materials to let children use their hands and brains to promote their brains, stimulate their interest in learning and stimulate their creativity. In family education, parents can take their children to the society, get in touch with nature, increase their knowledge, enrich their imagination and cultivate their creativity; You can also let children do what they can, and through spelling, cutting, disassembling and assembling, let children's various senses participate in activities and stimulate their imagination and creativity.