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Every soul is the crystallization of the natural universe and human wisdom. Every child has a rich soul and great potential, and education only needs to awaken his inner knowledge and ability.
A child's inner world is like a box full of treasures. In this box, there are life energy such as wisdom, rationality, will, character, beauty and intuition.
If we can't uncover the mystery of human mind, we can't really understand the true meaning of education; If we can't dive into the deepest part of human soul to feel the magic of life, we will never find the power of education.
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Socrates' father is a famous stone carver. When Socrates was very young, his father was carving a lion. Socrates observed it for a long time and suddenly asked his father, "How can I be a good sculptor?"
"Look!" Father said,
"Let's take this as a lion. I am not carving this stone lion, I am awakening it! "
"awake?"
"The lion is sleeping in the stone. I just rescued him from the stone prison."
"Wake up", what an inspiring educational motto!
Isn't Socrates himself a great sculptor of the mind?
He often said: "I have no wisdom, I am just a wise midwife."
He used midwifery again and again to awaken people's hearts from ignorance in that era. I often say that I have no wisdom. I just use the wisdom of ancient sages to awaken the wisdom of countless parents and guide them to find the key to awaken their children's wisdom.
Our children, especially those who we think have poor grades, are sleeping lions in a stone. We should awaken children's inherent potential and inner strength, and let them wake up from ignorance. Instead of blindly forcing children to learn, they will increase their learning burden indefinitely.
Children's learning in a passive state is only to cope with errands, which is meaningless to the enlightenment of intelligence. We should become awakening teachers and superb sculptors, instead of urging and forcing children to learn.
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The purpose of education is not to impart and instill some external and specific knowledge and skills, but to awaken children's sleeping self-consciousness and life consciousness from the deep heart, to awaken children's values, life sense and creativity, so as to realize the free and conscious construction of self-life meaning.
The process of education is not only to liberate children from the outside, but also to awaken their inner spiritual energy and personality ideal, liberate their wisdom, develop their potential and stimulate their creativity in life.
Education is an intelligent activity in which one soul awakens another soul, one soul inspires another soul, and one life ignites another life. It is the mysterious participation of human collective mind.
The story of this wise Greek old man gives us inspiration:
Protect children's self-esteem, cherish children's clear mind, let children draw inferences from the beginning of enlightenment, consciously know something, gain self-esteem and self-confidence in growth, and establish a sense of life value. When one day, children are pleasantly surprised to feel a dynamic energy and an irresistible passion and strength for life, education will touch its true essence-"awakening", which is also psychological education.
Awakening is not only an external force, but also a kind of self-awareness and self-awakening consciousness and strength.
According to "University", "Caring for destiny, Mingde is self-evident." We should care about and understand the bright gift that God has given us, and we should carry forward the wisdom and morality in our own talent. The development and exertion of all these precious talent potentials need to be consciously revealed and highlighted by ourselves.
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Education should be a wake-up call, not a forced infusion of knowledge.
When children's thirst for knowledge and the power of life are awakened, children will consciously and actively explore the unknown world, and this exploration process is also a process of children's self-awakening spiritual wisdom.
The purpose of education is not to educate, that is, education is to guide children to educate themselves.
When a child can educate himself, he will devote himself to the experience of learning and growing up. This kind of personal experience and knowledge has been verified by himself, which will also cultivate his ability to think independently. When a child has the ability to think independently, he has the ability to distinguish right from wrong, and the ability to distinguish right from wrong is wisdom.
Mencius said that the wisdom of right and wrong is also the end. "Wisdom" is wisdom. Wisdom is not knowledge, but it is inseparable from knowledge.
Wisdom can be said to be applicable knowledge, a concrete combination of knowledge and values, which comes from deep experience and reflection on life, self and the world and forms a dynamic judgment.
Therefore, it is a virtue and a kind of consciousness, which is realized as a value form of truth, goodness and beauty, harmony, perseverance and transcendence in life.
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For a long time, the misunderstanding of education only regards education as the life of an ascetic in a serious class, while ignoring the awakening education and self-education that are more meaningful to children.
In a sense, the whole meaning and value of education lies in awakening the truth, goodness and beauty in people's hearts.
In my opinion, it is an important way to awaken children's minds to let them know and learn things earlier, to let them have more contact with everything in nature and to let them read more classic works.
When the child's mind awakens, he will pay attention to discovering the world around him, exploring the truth and thinking about how to connect with the world. In the process of exploration, children will naturally gain the strength to grow up and will certainly find the meaning and direction of their own lives.