First, practice is advocated, and education should cultivate first-class practical talents for the country, the nation and the people.
The purpose of education is to cultivate Chinese builders who care about the country and the people, govern the country and strengthen the people, and build a prosperous and strong country. Huang Zhifu clearly realized this in his educational practice, so he put practice in the first place when he founded the township teacher. As early as 1924, when Jieshou Normal School was founded, it was far-sighted to put forward that normal school was the "center of rural culture", and made every effort to open up experimental fields, with the help of mulberry fields and fish ponds and lotus ponds, to guide teachers and students to consciously unify teaching. Later, when he was teaching in Qixia Town, he clearly put forward the concept of "life education", which integrated productive labor with education and teaching, and systematically improved his educational thought of "teaching integration". It was not until the establishment of Guizhou Normal School that its thought was fully mature, and it made remarkable achievements in the education process, and initially realized the ideal of "cultivating and reading together to create a new rural culture"-Guizhou Normal School was a successful model of education at that time.
The materialistic education concept of putting practice first not only changes the narrow style of education confined to classrooms and schools, but also strengthens the role of education in society and promotes the development and progress of education. Huang Zhifu once said: "The failure of China's education for thousands of years lies in the fact that the scholar-bureaucrat class is not engaged in productive labor, and scholars can only eat but not do it." This chronic disease has a great influence on education. To this day, many teachers are still "gentlemen" who only talk and don't do it. He practiced the famous educational theory that "education is life and school is society" with the spirit of setting an example.
Huang Zhifu's proposition is also of practical guiding significance for reversing the unhealthy trend in today's education. For example, it emphasizes theory over practice, lectures over hands-on, exams over life, and so on. If these can be unified, teaching activities will be lively and full of vitality.
Second, teacher-student interaction, education should form a good harmonious atmosphere among teachers, students, inside and outside the classroom, and inside and outside the campus.
School education is an omni-directional, multi-channel and three-dimensional educational network. Huang Zhifu's summary of teaching method is not limited to subjects and courses. It goes beyond the scope of classroom and school, but faces the needs of broad society and objective reality. Taking stimulating students' interest as the starting point of teaching, students can complete their studies independently and combine with practice closely, which highlights their dominant position. This concept of great education and the teaching concept of harmonious development among students, teachers, schools and society has greatly reversed the long-standing phenomenon of focusing only on sages and sages, and created a new trend of close connection between education and life and society. It is this teaching concept that can shape the demeanor of educators and make the educated form a good and comprehensive character. Therefore, Ren, Bao and Wang Jingzhi later became famous scholars and poets in China, and trained a large number of accomplished students such as Xiang Ling, Mei.
Third, take the lead in setting an example, educators should have excellent skills, which is a brand-new model of morality, talent, knowledge and art.
Being an educator can not only impart knowledge and skills and spread advanced culture, but also play an exemplary role in virtue, ability, diligence and knowledge. The people of China highly admire the old adage that "words are not as good as examples", which reflects the expectations of the educated for teachers from one side and shows the great influence of the educators' own overall quality requirements.
Huang Zhifu's leading role in educational thought has great vitality and the widest influence. He not only urged teachers to set an example for students, but also tried his best to be a teacher everywhere. As a principal, he always keeps the true colors of working people, never leaves productive labor and students, participates in campus construction with teachers and students, undertakes teaching tasks with front-line teachers, and strives to practice his educational philosophy. If Huang Zhifu loves rural education and the spirit of creating a new situation in education, he should be an example for people engaged in education to learn all their lives. His hard work and exemplary adherence to the noble character of educators have had a profound impact on teachers and students, which cannot but be said to be an invisible force.
4. Lifelong learning. Educators must set up the ambition of lifelong learning if they want to continuously improve their comprehensive quality.
Teachers are engineers of human souls and leaders who guide students. Therefore, teachers must have the concept of lifelong learning, actively accept the latest information, update their knowledge in time, learn the latest educational and teaching achievements, and constantly innovate in teaching. When Huang Zhifu founded the school, he strengthened the construction of this course, compiled national education textbooks, and tried to teach in national languages, thus realizing the curriculum reform that was in line with local conditions at that time. More importantly, he put forward the profound insights of teachers' lifelong learning, which has far-reaching significance.
There is an important content in Huang Zhifu's view of educational practice, that is, "there is no end to learning, and you are never tired of learning, and you are never tired of teaching." These nine simple words summarize the teaching principles and strategies, and more importantly, imply that teachers should not be stubborn and complacent in the teaching process, but should keep learning, pursue diligently and improve themselves in teaching. The purpose of setting up township teachers is to cultivate compound talents of "teachers, tutors and leaders". Teachers shoulder the heavy responsibility of transforming the countryside and building an ideal new countryside. We must build a lifelong interest in accepting new ideas and concepts.
Five, the goal first, draw a grand blueprint for education, in order to reform the society and put it into the national plan.
Huang Zhifu's education view is ambitious, with clear goals and a sense of being ahead of the times. The vast majority of the population in China are farmers. Therefore, the focus of education is in the countryside. Rural education is the most direct way to improve the quality of rural population and national spirit. With the help of rural education system, every rural normal school has become the center of rural culture. For teachers and students, "they must have a scientific mind", be able to connect with reality, care about the country and teach war with shame. Therefore, teachers and students in rural areas have noble patriotic thoughts, firm life beliefs, national consciousness and the spirit of becoming a monk. Because of this, Huang Zhifu's educational thought is more courageous and spiritual. The high standards of national concept, national consciousness, civil and military integrity and moral cultivation are essentially the foundation of education. It is undoubtedly a great contribution in the history of educational development and still has practical significance for rejuvenating the country through science and education today.
Six, the complex project of building a system, combining with reality, teaching according to local conditions and cultivating talents.
Education is a major event related to the life of the nation and the people, and it is the work of serving the people. Its characteristics determine that education must be closely integrated with time, place and people. Without a strict and meticulous education system, it is difficult to ensure the healthy and orderly development of education. This idea in Huang Zhifu's educational thought has important practical significance and guiding value.
The rural normal school founded by Huang Zhifu has a systematic educational syllabus, a complete teaching system and a perfect educational mechanism. For rural education in China, Huang Zhifu's contribution is not only limited to the success of the specific schools he runs to promote education, but more importantly, he has established a rule-based rural education system. Such as curriculum outline, enrollment brochure, training plan, etc. , have a perfect system, and even specific content such as labor production training can formulate specific rules and implementation methods according to the actual situation. This realistic spirit and subtle planning can be seen in his macro view of rural education. It is precisely because of this educational system that he founded Jieshou Township Normal School, Qixia Town Normal School and Guizhou Normal School, which became a model of famous schools in education at that time.
Huang Zhifu's education system is practical and influential, and it can only be part of it. As Huang Zhifu said, rural education has a long way to go. "It's not a one-off event, and it's not a few people making a plan. You can succeed by doing two articles." Therefore, the education system has gone beyond the campus and integrated into the society, which is a "big education". I hope that people with lofty ideals in the whole country will jointly revitalize the rural education cause, recruit talents and expand the team, as stated in "Notes for Members of the Preparatory Office of China Rural Education Society": "In order to concentrate the talents of the whole country, step by step and jointly develop rural transportation."
Breaking through regional limitations, but with local characteristics, setting up large-scale education, but with school-based spirit, is the far-sighted core of Huang Zhifu's educational thought.
To sum up, Huang Zhifu's educational theory is a systematic summary of his educational activities and practices, and it is also a collection of experiences in creating rural education in China. In the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, it has broad and far-reaching practical significance and great application value for clearing the fog of education, changing some fallacies in education and guiding the development of education.
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