School education plays a leading and promoting role in human development, rather than a decisive role. We can't exaggerate the role of education. It is believed that human development is determined by education, which exaggerates the role of education. Without heredity, the cooperation of environment, the material basis of social development and the exertion of human subjective initiative, education cannot play a leading and promoting role.
People's subjective initiative is decisive for the following reasons:
1. It is not education that plays a decisive role in people's physical and mental development, but people's subjective initiative. The factors that affect people's physical and mental development include heredity, environment, people's subjective initiative and education. Among them, heredity provides a physiological premise for people's physical and mental development and makes people's development possible.
2. Environment provides realistic conditions for people's physical and mental development, and people's subjective initiative is the internal driving force of people's development, which plays a decisive role in people's physical and mental development. Education, especially school education, plays a leading role in people's physical and mental development. The Teachers Law stipulates that teachers are professionals who perform their educational and teaching duties, train builders and successors of the socialist cause and improve the quality of the people. Teachers should be loyal to the people's education.
3. Education can not only restrict the influence of people's genetic quality on their physical and mental development, but also actively adjust and choose the role of environment on their physical and mental development. More importantly, education can also have a systematic impact on the direction, speed and level of their physical and mental development. However, education is not omnipotent. Educators should strictly follow the characteristics of the physical and mental development of the educated and give full play to the leading role of education in the physical and mental development of people.
Extended knowledge
Education is a unique activity of human society and a conscious social activity with the direct goal of influencing people's physical and mental development. On the other hand, school education is undertaken by full-time staff and specialized institutions, which exert purposeful, systematic, planned and organized influence on the body and mind of the educated according to certain social requirements, so that the educated can develop in knowledge and skills, ideology and morality, intelligence and physical strength, etc.
The activity of becoming a person needed by a certain society (class). The "person" here refers to the "educated individual" in school education, and more precisely refers to the "student" (the person who has obtained the admission qualification). Comenius said: "Education lies in the sound development of individuals", and Rousseau said: "People depend on education".
Pestalozzi, a Swiss bourgeois-democratic educator, believes that "the purpose of education is to develop all the natural strength and ability of human beings", and Dewey said: "Education is life, growth and experience". It can be seen that education plays an important role in the process of talent training. As a characteristic education, school education plays a leading role in the process of human development.