West:

The word "education" comes from the Latin educare, which means "derivation" or "derivation".

Does it feel a little familiar?

By the way, Socrates' midwifery!

Also called "Socratic Method", as a method for students and teachers to discuss and seek correct answers together, it helps to stimulate and promote the enthusiasm and initiative of students' thinking and "guide" students' existing knowledge instead of "instilling" it into students.

China:

In Shuo Wen Jie Zi, there are:

"Teaching, imposed from above, is effective from below."

"Educate, train children and make them better."

The use of "education" as a word began at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century, accompanied by the appearance of western-style schools.

Summary:

Western heuristic method

Understanding education as a natural activity focuses on the inherent or potential qualities of natural people.

China-indoctrination

Emphasis is placed on "upper application and lower effect" and passive learning and acceptance of knowledge.

2. The different writing order determines people's critical spirit and skepticism.

Why are westerners full of critical spirit and skeptical spirit, but China people lack it?

I have heard a plausible explanation:

Because western words are written from left to right, I keep shaking my head when I read them, and I always feel wrong, wrong. . . In ancient China, Chinese characters were written from top to bottom. When the ancients were reading, they kept nodding and always mumbling, yes, yes. . . .

3. Chinese and western educational ideas and methods are constantly converging and merging, learning from each other and learning from each other.

About small class teaching, group cooperative learning, flip classroom and so on, China is constantly learning, introducing and exploring practice. Moreover, Britain has also introduced all primary school mathematics textbooks from Shanghai to learn from teachers in the east!

In fact, Confucius, a great educator in China, said in The Analects that "if you don't get angry, you will be threatened, if you don't get angry, you will never get it back." This exposition of heuristic teaching is actually similar to the "midwifery" of Socrates in the west.