If you only remember knowledge, you may have a little edification, because any solid matter also has tension in consciousness, which can arouse a little vibration of the soul. But knowledge can only create a kind of "existence", but can't form a kind of real existence and spiritual settlement. Even if we have a lot of knowledge in our stomachs, we may only become the object of knowledge manipulation. This is a proof that many scientists have become terrorists who endanger mankind. If he is cultivated, it is also a bad spiritual cultivation. In my opinion, this is not an edification, but a spiritual destruction.
So we need some kind of spirit, a spirit that has been proved to be beneficial to mankind in human history. We can't trust the mass media too much, because the mass media often only spread some fragmentary facts, which may have been consciously processed.
We can't trust the history in books too much. Although reading history can give us confidence in the firmness of culture from our ancestors, we can also get some edification of historical spirit, but history can't be really edified, because written history still needs us to have enough judgment to become something beneficial or unclear to ourselves.
What do we do? We may only provide something similar to the atmosphere, which can best enter the depths of people's souls, from the formation of spirit and quality.
"Cultivation is the true expression of forming consciousness. A cultured person does not look at the world from a chaotic and isolated point of view, but has a certain level of perspective; He did not act according to the mechanical principle, but acted from the objective concept. "
This shows that our education needs to do three things. First, let all the facilities and teaching teams in the school have certain spiritual value. The school itself should have some universal value pursuits, such as the admiration of "benevolence". On the basis of recognizing the school value, teachers should be able to link their own value pursuit with the school value. Schools should boldly present all kinds of universal values of human beings, so schools need to have a rich collection of books, and advocate students to read leisurely, and form their own value judgments in the process of reading.
Then, what schools should do more is to protect students' independent judgment. Because "edification is the true representation of the formed consciousness", if we suppress the child's judgment ability, the child will not be able to truly reproduce the formed consciousness. At present, many children like to act like adults, which is already a very sad situation.
What schools need to do in training is to constantly create opportunities for "communication". Teachers and students communicate equally, and students cooperate with each other to complete certain learning tasks, so that students can communicate more with the society. Only through communication can students constantly receive signals from different times and different characters' souls, and can they really make self-judgment, because language is often an illusion to some extent.
Yes, the real function of edifying is to let the edified people explore the true nature of themselves, so as to really have a dialogue with the inner self and become a veritable "existence".
The above superficial understanding, welcome criticism and correction.