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A good education is what I hope to teach lively people.

We have heard Bismarck say before that the prosperity of Germany is the success of primary education. So we also came to run primary schools, thinking that with thousands of primary schools, China would be strong. Later, I heard that Japan's prosperity also originated from primary education, so we all believed that primary education, like a bottle of universal oil and a pill for getting rid of diseases, was extremely effective and could eliminate all diseases if eaten. There are tens of millions of primary school students now. How can we know that society is corrupt and the country is weaker than before? What is the reason?

Because of the fallacy of the basic idea of education.

It is often said that students are the masters of China. If the student is the master of China, who is the slave of China? Education does not cultivate masters. Others say that education is the way to save the country, so primary school students should know the danger of China and inspire patriotism. Crying to primary school students that China is dying, so naive primary school students don't know what China is, and they are sad to hear adults say the words "bad" and "dying". Let a budding and vibrant child turn into withered autumn grass!

Master and Dead Autumn Grass can be regarded as the products of education in China.

Our educational goal has always been to train masters. As the saying goes, "a scholar is the root of a prime minister." The most common primary school textbook "Tales of Wonders" says: "If you are in Tian Shelang, you will be in the emperor's hall at dusk." . We often say, "Fan Wenzheng is a scholar and takes the world as his own responsibility". Every scholar wants to be a prime minister, and every Tian Shelang wants to be an imperial minister of the emperor. Where do you think there are so many jobs?

We have studied for a long time, but you want to turn lively people into withered autumn grass. The function of the imperial examination and the result of reading turned useful people into bookworms. Isn't this like withered autumn grass?

The purpose of education in China is to cultivate one's morality, keep one's family in order, run the country and level the world. Later, "step by step" and "self-discipline" were considered to be self-cultivation; "Father is son", "husband is woman" and "three obedience and four virtues" are regarded as families. A fool's "benevolent policy" counts as governing the country. Where do you think you can fix your body, keep your home clean and tidy, and govern the country?

Now we should talk about self-cultivation and cultivate a lively and provocative individual; To talk about family harmony and equality between husband and wife, fathers should not treat their sons as accessories; Son, don't treat your father like a cow and horse for your children and grandchildren; To talk about governing the country, we must first break the herdsman policy and adopt the principle of governing by the people.

It is also necessary to change the relationship between individuals and families and create an evolved society. Individuals are members of society. Not only in the family, father's son, son's father, mother's daughter, daughter's mother, wife's husband and husband's wife all regard the family country as two organs of society to develop personal and social happiness. Don't use your home country to engulf individuals and destroy society.

When we talk about education, we should clearly set a standard for the products produced by education. What is scheduled to be produced, and then the factory is built. Don't take the machine, just make things. My personal opinion is that the "masters", "hay", prime ministers and sages we have produced before are all wrong. What we want is a person with three conditions.

First of all, we should cultivate lively individuals.

A child is very lively. He can laugh, jump, run and play. Near the mountain, you will go up the mountain to pick flowers and catch butterflies; At the water's edge, you will go fishing for aquatic plants, shells and small fish. Locusts and frogs will be caught near the fields. He is very interested in the environment. His hand can't help touching this and bouncing that; Feet can't stand running around, eyes can't stand looking around; If you can't control your mouth, just say this and that; Look how lively it is.

We who run schools are determined to arrest him and lock him up in a school without mountains, water, flowers and birds; Tie his hands and feet so that he can't move in the chair; Covering his eyes is a classroom where he can't see around; Let him read all kinds of meaningless sentences, such as "the heavens and the earth are mysterious, the universe is vast" and "at the beginning of life, nature is good". Now it's changed to "a dog", "a cat" and "my brother reads and my sister writes" These words are regarded as new textbooks.

Speaking of history, children don't know who the Yellow Emperor is, let alone who Chiyou is. Listen, kid, there seems to be a telegram from Mars. There are also songs that let him sing "Tuo, Lai, Mi, Fa, Suo, La, Xi"; Tell him to listen to the "eyah" organ. How about the children's song "Firefly, Red at Night, Be My Little Lantern". Twenty-five yuan of broken organ is not as good as a few cents of flute and huqin.

Children's growth depends on activities in an appropriate environment. Now we put him in prison and tie him up. How do they grow up?

German Floppe created a natural way to raise children. He started a school and used various methods to let children grow naturally. He doesn't know what to call the school for. One day when he was playing in the mountains, he saw many flowers and trees, all of which grew well, so he called his school kindergarten. Kindergarten means "children's garden", but it has gradually become "children's prison". We bring our children to school only in the hope that they will gain knowledge and forget that he is a lively child.

No matter in primary school or middle school, we should realize that students are alive, and their physical strength, brain power, official consciousness and feelings are developing day by day. Don't use dead books to suppress their growth. As we all know, the students who graduated from middle school are getting closer and closer, and they are reciting more and more songs. One year's academic ability, one year's anger. We don't need such education to produce products!

We should cultivate individuals who can improve society.

A person who lives in this world can't escape from society, so whether the society is good or not has a great relationship with personal happiness. If I develop my personal life and forget the society, my personal happiness cannot exist.

One of the difficulties in running a school in China is social corruption. The bad habits of this corrupt society were finally brought into school. Therefore, the group in the school will inevitably have a popular bad habit in society, not comparing with others. School is the mirror of society. If we look in this mirror, we can see some evil phenomena in society. However, life in school will eventually be higher than that in society, so students can have a chance to improve society.

Ordinary parents have two hopes for sending their children to school. One is to increase assets for the family: I think "my son" has entered school and can stand on his feet in the future and add a useful element to the family; One is to seek happiness for the country, thinking that "my son" will go to school and become a talent to save the world and people in the future.

The purpose of a good school is to cultivate good social elements and seek evolution for society. How does society evolve? How do individuals participate in the social evolution movement? These two questions should be asked by the school.

In my opinion, if students want to take part in the movement to improve society in the future, they should start with the movement to improve school society. Having said that, I have to mention the issue of student autonomy.

Student autonomy is to cultivate young people's ability to improve school society. They are qualified as social elements to improve society and help each other in the evolution of society, coming and going. Don't treat people, don't be the master; It is autonomy and service. Some people say that students make trouble by themselves in an autonomous society, so autonomy is not accepted. I think the conflict in the autonomous committee is inevitable. This is a stage that must be experienced. Besides, instead of having no autonomy in school and making trouble in society in the future, it is better to experience this experiment in school and spend less.

We should cultivate people who can produce.

The previous education focused on saving the country, being the master of China and saving the world and people. However, the best result is to cultivate talents who are superstitious about herding policy. As a result, I became a master and regarded my country as a slave. Not to save the country, but to betray the country; Don't save the world and people, but fish for people; Later, "only state officials were allowed to set fire, and people were not allowed to light lamps."

In future education, we should emphasize the sacredness of production, service and labor. Why should we talk about the sanctity of labor? Because social production depends on the results of individual labor, everyone can work, and social production will naturally be enriched; If most people are "four bodies are not diligent, regardless of grain", how can society survive?

For example, Mr. Dewey said that Greek culture is very developed and scientific ideas are also very developed. Why are there no material scientists in Greece? Why didn't materials science develop until19th century? Because Greeks look down on people who work. If you look down on your work, you won't do experiments; If you can't do experiments, there will be no material scientists.

We in China have always regarded politics and morality as the center of our country. Our school is nothing more than political morality. For thousands of years, the purpose of education has been the benevolent policy of "saving the world and saving the people", and the herdsman policy: today, people are treated as sheep to herd sheep; Tomorrow, when the sheep gets fat, come and eat him. Look at the "one rule and one chaos" in China for thousands of years. Isn't fat sheep the result of eating sheep?

Now we assume that people are sheep, and we hope that sheep have the ability to find grass to eat, rather than being herded; Then, although the sheep is fat, they are not afraid of people eating his meat. This is just a joke. Where can I be a man and a sheep? The people are lively people. We have improved the people's ability and enabled them to have independent productive forces. Why do people want benevolent people, Mu Zhi?

To be able to produce independently, we must first know how to work. You know, labor is sacred. The American Federation of Teachers has now joined the Federation of Labor. This is the recognition of teachers all over the country that teaching is also a kind of labor. Anyone who has a job and produces for society is a laborer. The effort is the same. "Those who work hard serve the people, and those who work hard serve the people" have the meaning of class division, which is too light for workers.

To sum up the above, education should set the standard of products, which is: lively, social-improving and productive individuals. This is the future of education in China that I look forward to.

A good education is to teach lively people. On education: "good education" is to stimulate interest in learning first.

Q: Qiming and Zhenhua, where you grew up, and Tsinghua and Oxford, where you grew up, are all good schools. I also heard that your parents' family motto is: if you have money, you should let your children receive a good education. Teacher Yang, what kind of education do you think is a "good education"?

Jiang Yang: Education is discipline, and education is passive. Children are happiest around their parents, and they can be as naughty as they want. The average parent always advocates that "this child should go to school". On the first day of school, the children wore new clothes, shoes and bags. He was delighted to "go to school!" But when you come back from school, you may not want to be disciplined again unless the teacher coaxes you.

My understanding of "good education" is to inspire, learn interest, learn awareness, cultivate people's self-motivation, guide people to learn and constantly improve themselves. It is necessary to educate students subtly and let them be influenced subtly. In this regard, the role of example is very important, and words are not as good as examples.

I myself was influenced by my parents and teachers, and I changed from naughty to studious. Dad speaks well and eloquently, and Shen Bao's comments are one after another, ambitious and spend a lot of money. I admire and wonder, seeking the secret. My father said, "What's the secret? Read more books and read good books. " My mother always leafs through classical literature and modern novels when she is free, and reads them with relish. I learned from them and asked my father to collect books to read. It's really interesting. Since then, I have been fascinated by reading and reading good books.

I was a child in Qi Ming. Although I have not been baptized and infected by the love of my Catholic sister-in-law, I have known from an early age that "I love myself and others", just like the song "I want to love others, so I don't owe them deep trust; I want to love someone because someone cares. "

I have grown up since I entered Zhenhua. The first lady of the founder of Zhenhua Girls' School ruined the school. President Wang inherited his mother's ambition and devoted his life to running the school well, which deeply touched me. They are all role models in my heart.

Dad never taught us how to do it. It was through his actions that I realized the true meaning of the old adage that "wealth can't be lewd, poverty can't be moved, and power can't be bent". He was appointed as the president of the Capital High Procuratorate. Because he insisted on hearing the bribery case of Xu Shiying, the minister of communications, he would rather be dismissed by Beiyang government, which protects officials. When he was the president of the Jiangsu Provincial High Court, a warlord went to Shanghai, and the local gentry jointly ran a newspaper to welcome him. His father's name is also on the list of people who welcome him. Dad refused to welcome warlords, saying that "fame and fortune can't be faked", and immediately put a notice in the newspaper saying that he was not welcome. During the occupation of Shanghai, his father Lu Yu became an acquaintance of the traitors, turning a blind eye, so it was rumored that Yang was blind.

We never taught our daughter Qian Yuan. She saw that Zhong Shu and I both liked reading and learned from others. She took a book and followed the example, and gradually became enlightened. She learned a foreign language and had a difficult word. She looked through three dictionaries and didn't look them up. She came to ask her father, but Zhong Shu didn't tell her, so she kept looking. She found the fifth dictionary, and found it.

I don't know much about modern education. I saw in the newspaper that the artist Han Meilin made a painting and gave it to two or three-year-old children. The children went back happily, and soon brought the painting for Han Meilin to sign and asked him what it was for. The children said, "If you sign it, the painting will be valuable!" It's a pity that such a young child is influenced by bad social atmosphere. Shouldn't the education of values attract attention?

Talking about self-cultivation: being willing to endure hardships is the most proud quality.

Q: Teacher Yang, what qualities do you think you can rely on most, be proud of most, and make people get better and better without being destroyed? Do you feel no regrets? Where does the upward feeling come from?

Jiang Yang: I think the most reliable quality in hardship is willingness to endure hardship. Because suffering breeds wisdom; I don't know how bumpy the road of life is without suffering. With personal experience, you can become smart and capable.

My "upward spirit" comes from faith, faith in culture and trust in human nature. In short, we must have faith, as the common people say: we must have thoughts.

I think the national disaster and life difficulties during the Anti-Japanese War were temporary. I firmly believe that War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression will win, the Chinese nation will not perish, and Shanghai will eventually return to the hands of the people of China. I write comedies and protest stubbornly with laughter.

We are stranded on an isolated island in Shanghai, with our hearts on the front and rear of the war of resistance. At that time, all patriotic intellectuals crowded together. For example, my husband and wife, Chen Xihe, Fu Lei, Song Qi and so on. I often meet at Life Bookstore or Fu Lei's home to talk about the international and domestic war situation and prospects. We are completely different from writers and intellectuals who voluntarily join the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Circle" and do not associate with each other.

One day, Qian Zhongshu and I were informed to have a meeting, and we don't remember. After the meeting, Chen Xihe, who was not far from his neighbor, ran nervously and said, "Everyone attending the meeting should sign." Zhong Shu said, "If you don't sign, you won't sign!" I said, "We have to sign one by one, but we don't sign. Let's see what they do." The three of us agreed to go out together, put our hands in our coat pockets and left. Nobody did anything to us.

To "",it is still the cultural belief that supports me to dispel my fears, spend my troubles and pains, and let me face the tragedy of burning books and burying Confucianism from time to time and endure all kinds of mental and physical torture. I absolutely don't believe that our precious culture, which has been passed down for thousands of years, will be completely destroyed by violence, and our excellent nation, which once created such a splendid culture, will be dehumanized and sink.

Starting from my humble and humiliating "ghostly" situation, I carefully observed the outside world, savored it, whispered greetings, a kind "face", sympathetic eyes, relaxed discipline, euphemistic wording and implicit comments, all of which were signals. I was pleasantly surprised to find that human nature has not disappeared, and the dark clouds are inlaid with Phnom Penh. Many revolutionary masses, even prison staff, are actually just a group of sheep in wolf skins, although they also call us "ghosts" with batons. I firmly believe that no matter how long the disastrous "Cultural Revolution" lasts, it will end in failure, and this upside-down world will be upside down again.

Talking about "freedom": Patience is to keep inner freedom.

Q: Mr. Yang, you have been a free thinker all your life. However, the "freedom" that you value so much in your life and "enduring the hardships of life and protecting its innocence" are always two sides of the same coin. From being the daughter-in-law of a moneymaker to enduring the hardships of life in the face of national disaster, you are deeply restrained in the face of fame and fortune, "putting on an invisibility cloak" and "being willing to be zero". Compared with the more widely known and far-reaching "freedom" for a century, it seems to be two completely different things in temperament. What's going on here?

Jiang Yang: That's an interesting question. Think about it carefully, I endure this and that, just to keep my inner freedom and inner peace. You scold me, and I laugh it off. You hit me, I will never fight back. If you try to kill me with a knife, I will say, "What do you have with me that makes me a murderer?" Am I in your way? "So, forbearance is a shield to protect your armor and resist aggression. I am wearing an invisibility cloak. Others can't see me, but I can see others. I am willing to make a zero. People don't treat me like a thing, so I can see through anyone who looks down on me. So I can pursue freedom and show my personality. So I said that tolerance and freedom are dialectical unity. Endure is for freedom, and if you want freedom, you have to learn to endure.

Q: Confucius said, "At the age of fifteen, I am determined to study; Thirty years old, I stand firm; "Forty without confusion" has entered the daily life of China people and become a reference coordinate of life, but it only says "70 and do what you want, not exceeding the moment". How many people can get on the stage? Do you feel small in the world now when you climb Mount Tai? Can you tell me how much you weigh now?

Jiang Yang: I don't know how much I weigh now. Fei Xiaotong and I discussed Einstein's theory of relativity when I was young. I don't understand. One day I suddenly understood that time was running and the earth was turning. Even the same place is not exactly the same. Now I feel like this. Every day is new. Watching the changes of leaves is different from listening to the songs of birds. There are new experiences and new feelings every day.

The leaves on the tree are different. Flowers bloom and fall, vegetation withers and the days are different. I sat down and thought about it. My daily life is not exactly the same, there are always unexpected things happening. I wake up every day and think, "I wonder what unexpected things will happen today?" Even if there is no big accident, I can get new experiences from my daily life. Baduanjin morning class, feel the pleasure of relaxing muscles and tendons; Read newspapers and watch TV to get new information; Experience the slight progress in practicing calligraphy and copying poems, the experience of rereading old books, especially the cultivation of ideas. Ask yourself to be more tolerant, more understanding and more harmonious. There are always new experiences in this respect. Therefore, every day is special and has fresh feelings and feelings.

I'm a hundred years old, and I'm on the verge of life. I can't know exactly how far I can go, and I can't help living, but I know very well that I will go home soon. I want to wash away the filth that has been contaminated for a hundred years and go home. I don't have the feeling of "climbing Mount Tai and being small in the world". I just live a quiet life in my own land of Xiaotian.

At this point, I am as calm as water. I want to greet every day calmly, live every day well and get ready to go home.