He said: "life is education, which means putting a bird in the Woods;" Education is life, that is, putting birds in cages. "
Tao Xingzhi pointed out that life education is the original, independent and necessary education of life. The fundamental meaning of education is to change life. Life always contains the meaning of education. Society is a school and life is an education. Only when education is integrated with life can it produce vitality.
What kind of education you live: what kind of education you receive if you live a good life; To live a bad life is to receive a bad education.
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The term life education is misunderstood. It is misunderstood because it is mixed with a specious theory, which makes people unable to see clearly.
This theory tells us that school education is too boring, and it is interesting to bring some life to the society. Following this theory, several slogans are: "school socialization", "life education", "school is society" and "education is life".
It's like a cage. There are several birds in it. Concerned about the loneliness of birds, bird people moved one or two branches into the cage to let the birds jump and play, or caught more creatures as companions. Birds are more comfortable, but birdcages are birdcages after all, and they are by no means the world of birds.
Strangely, bird people likes to say that birdcages are the world of birds, but he completely ignores the Woods of the real world of birds and refuses to admit it. If the birds in the cage are used to nature and agree, this cage is my world; And if the birds outside the cage despise the forest, envy the life in the cage, and even regret not being allowed in, then these birds are as absurd as people.
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We should clear up this misunderstanding now. Life education is the original, independent and necessary education of life (born of life and born for life).
The fundamental meaning of education is to change life. Life is always like this, that is, life always contains the meaning of education.
Therefore, we can say: "Society is the school." Under the guidance of this theory, we admit that what we have experienced is our education:
Living a good life means receiving a good education; Living a bad life means receiving a bad education; To live a purposeful life is to receive a purposeful education; To live in a muddled way is to receive education in a muddled way; Living an organized life means receiving an organized education; To live a fragmented life is to receive a fragmented education; Living a planned life means receiving a planned education; To live a messy life is to receive a messy education. If we want to get an education, we must live.