? According to the Athens system, when a man is a teenager, he must master a job skill. Socrates naturally followed his father to learn the skills of masons.
There is a story that Socrates' father once answered his son's question, saying that he was not carving a stone lion, but "awakening" it from a stone, which was already in it. This leads to thinking: education is awakening, not carving.
Professor Zheng Tao commented: "Education for sculpture", the soul of students is just waiting for the stone carved by the teacher. Teachers hold meat cutters and cut at will according to what they have already conceived in their hearts. What students can do is passively bear it. Occasionally, I complained and cried because of pain and discomfort, and was quickly drowned out by the teacher's yelling and cutting. Many living souls are not awakened by carving knives, but become numb and even' carved to death' because of such carving knives. "
? "'Education for Awakening' regards students' souls as' seeds' waiting for awakening. Teachers need to make full preparations for the awakening of seeds and provide them with suitable soil, water temperature, nutrition and other conditions. Once the time is ripe, the seeds will break out of the ground and grow into their ideal appearance. The way of education is not to directly pull the seed out of the soil, but to create conditions suitable for its growth, let it wake up, let it grow internally, and let the seed of the soul grow by itself. The soul grown in this way has a tough life texture and strong inner strength. "
Education includes training, but education is not training. "This kind of work distinguishes between education and training: training refers to everything related to technology, skills and skills. A person can make technology mature in meticulous training, but it may have nothing to do with the cultivation of the soul. That kind of "unintentional", "heartless" and "soulless" technical talents are not uncommon in any era. Education must include training elements. There are also expectations and requirements for awakened people in terms of skills and skills. However, education should not be reduced to training. He finally points to the education of personality, the enlightenment of wisdom and all other goals directly related to the soul. "
Based on this mission, we can understand the happiness and burden of education. Everything has always been like this. The stronger the happiness, the greater the burden, and the two are directly proportional. Like Michael. Fran quoted the psychologist Freud in the book The Power of Change: Deep Change: "The brighter the prospect, the higher the uncertainty, and the stronger the passion for pursuing this prospect." Education is everywhere, running through the whole process, and all-encompassing, and naturally it has become a cause of "unreachable, yearning for it".
When your heart is full of educational desire, whether starting from yourself completely or starting from the growth of the educated and the educational scene, its ideas, methods and results will be very different.
? "When education becomes a work related to soul awakening, education must be a call and response at the same time, which is the call and response of educators and educatees. In human education, we often hear the call and the response without response, and the anxiety and loss of not hearing the call or response can be seen everywhere. This shows that human education has lost its soul. At least it shows that educators have lost the ability to awaken the soul, and the educated have lost the ability to awaken the soul. What they lost together was the ability to feel their own souls. "
"If the doctor's treatment room is filled with the smell of medicine, the priest's prayer room is filled with the smell of holiness, and the soldier's battlefield is filled with the smell of death, then the teacher's classroom is filled with the smell of growth, and teachers are witnessing one life after another every day. Under the influence of educational power, the miracle of growth and change permeates the breath of life growth every day. This is a joy that other professions have never experienced, and there are also difficulties that others cannot understand. " You can't replace growth and growth any more than you can replace birth and death. You can only help and support growth and growth. Sometimes we must have the mentality of waiting for flowers to bloom, because the preconditions and conditions for growth and growth in education are diverse and rich, just like "multiple causes and one fruit", which is timely, appropriate and moderate. How difficult it is to find the right time and scene.
? "The ultimate realization of education is not to hold hands with life, but to bid farewell to life-to bid farewell to the old life and move towards a new life." Moreover, the progress or successful outcome of education-if the word success must be used-is farewell and separation, because one of the purposes of education is to cultivate people's independence, whether they let go or let go.
Professor Zheng Tao also quoted other educators to prove his understanding.
? Heidegger said, "Education is' to grow'."
? Dewey said, "growth is the purpose, and there is no other purpose except growth."
Zhou said: "Education is growth."
The occurrence of education is largely based on endogenous factors. Otherwise, how can we explain that the same teachers, the same schools and even the same families, that is to say, the external forces seem the same, but the lives of the educated are very different? The dragon gave birth to nine sons, and each son was different. The same teacher taught "Why is the gap so big?" This also proves a cruel conclusion from one side that academic qualifications can't guarantee success.
? "First, the purpose of education is not to look for it from the outside, but to go back to the inside of people's lives to dig and return to growth itself. Second, growth itself is valuable and the highest value of education. Third, growth is a vision and scale. "
Professor Zheng Tao's classification is not to please and maintain teachers, but it does reveal the complicated factors that affect and act on the independence and professionalism of modern education. "There are three kinds of people related to education in the world: those who do education, those who watch education, and those who do education and watch education. Educators only bury themselves in the land of education, and rarely look up at the sky and think about the value and process of their own cultivation. Just do it, don't think about it' is the slogan that echoes in their hearts. People who watch education, like leisurely spectators passing by a chess stall at dusk, are mainly responsible for pointing fingers, giving vent to their complaints and dissatisfaction intermittently, and fully demonstrating their' talents and lofty sentiments' as education critics.
In today's era, there is never a shortage of such educational spectators. The spit they spit will soon dry, but the exposed background color will not change. There is no shortage of critics in any era, but architects are always scarce. The most scarce thing is the person who combines critics and architects. These are people who do and watch education. They really understand education. People who understand education are people with educational vision, which is the unique vision of the' specialty' of education. Having said that, any industry, especially the field related to "people" itself, has always struggled in criticism and accusation.
? "The education position is the student position. The student's position has three connotations: first, the student's position does not mean taking the student as the center, giving up the responsibility of educators and taking care of the students' journey. Second, students' position is the actual state of students, which becomes the starting point and the foothold of education and teaching, and is the basis for setting education and teaching goals. Thirdly, students' standpoint also shows that educators should pay attention to students' growth needs and take discovering, satisfying and promoting students' growth needs as their educational mission. This student position is based on the growth of life, which shows an eternal educational truth: in the world of education, students' life comes first. "
? There is nothing wrong with emphasizing "student status", because education is to inherit history, base itself on the present and face the future. However, students' position can't be the only position in education, and so can the position of culture and civilization, adult's experience world and future hypothesis. The development of students is the core of education, but the fact is that in this process, students don't have and can't get the absolute right to speak. Therefore, Professor Zheng Tao's viewpoint is based on practical education, but it is neither a fact nor a reality, which reflects the complexity of education.
? "Compassion in education lies in sympathy for the pain, frustration, failure and various crises that life will bear in the course of life, and in sensitivity and awe of all these crises and encounters. An educator with compassion faces the life of a struggling child with a smile on his face and tenderness in his heart, but tears and even blood flow in the depths of his soul. "
"The beauty of education must not be the beauty that appears in a hurry, but the beauty that is calm and even calm. Therefore, there are three kinds of teachers in the world: anxious and impatient teachers; A teacher who is slow but may miss opportunities for growth; Teachers who have grasped the rhythm of life growth in time. "
However, we must admit that in the field of education, all kinds of teachers exist objectively. We can't guarantee that all teachers are good teachers, that former good teachers won't fall behind, or even that any student can enter a perfect ideal school. Therefore, while striving to improve teachers, we must always make it clear and even remind students that imperfect schools, imperfect education and imperfect teachers are reality, and we even have to declare that not only "teachers" are hard to meet, but even "teachers" are hard to meet. The ideal education and school are always in the water, even "other people's schools". In other words, it is a truth that the educated must accept the cruel reality in time.
? "You don't have knowledge to have power, you find the source of knowledge, you have the ability to discover, capture and create knowledge, and you turn yourself into the source of knowledge. This is the real power. Whoever gives students this power will show the power of education in their own education. "
Many popular inspirational languages have never stood up to scrutiny, so it is enough to let them play a certain enlightening role. Moreover, it is also a manifestation of independent thinking to analyze and refute the logical errors of every inspirational quotation from a speculative standpoint.
? "Knowledge can change fate, which has inspired countless people and has been verified by countless facts. However, this statement cannot stand scrutiny. With knowledge, the phenomenon that people's destiny remains unchanged also exists. " Similarly, the Excellence of teachers is only a "temporary phenomenon". "Educators can't be successful forever, and the ever-victorious generals in their educational career are not everywhere."
Every student is a unique life, and so is every teacher. Therefore, the growth path of famous teachers and famous teachers can not be completely copied, but can inspire peers at most. As the saying goes, you can only be your "best self", not like other famous teachers. "The open classes of many famous teachers just look beautiful and very ornamental. Ordinary teachers can't learn, can't do, and can't be their own teaching practice. They can only have a look and have a look. "
? "The success of a famous teacher is related to talent, diligence and opportunity, but it is not necessarily related to the so-called educational theory and law." Of course, the road to the growth of famous teachers has endogenous common characteristics, and the core literacy that can be used for reference must be an educator who is diligent in learning, good at thinking and acting, that is, "integration of knowledge and action".
"What is preached around the world is the success of education, and what is obscured is the failure of education." In this way, the stories of winners are celebrated everywhere, while the tragedies of losers are mercilessly drowned. Just like when you see a restaurant on the street, you will always pay attention to the newly opened restaurant. The one that closes in an instant will make you say "Oh" at most, so you won't bother to go to the restaurant with poor business. It is precisely because you are too lazy to go that his business is getting worse every day. This is exactly "all he can see is a new smile, where can he hear the old man crying?"
? "I remind you.
There is a flower torn from your face.
Remember the smile of infancy (Liang) "
"Choose the road for the children, or let the children choose their own roads." Everyone knows the truth, but people are often used to educating future-oriented students with past knowledge and experience. Therefore, education is slow and the progress of education is step by step.
? "The ideal of education is to turn all education in the world into good education. A good education is not necessarily an education of wisdom, or even an education of intelligence. Good education is generous, prudent and warm education, which can make the power of education last for life. "
? "After leaving home, his education will not stop; After leaving school, education will not end. "
Like life, education is a process.
? [Note] Li Zhengtao: "Education Common Sense", East China Normal University Press, April 2nd edition, 20 16: Education for everyone's happy life (education is not carving, but awakening/education is "life practice"/the vision of education is the vision of growth/the position of education is the position of students/education is a career that needs compassion, patience and calmness/education is a measure.