Reading Notes on the Purpose of Education (Whitehead Literature Exchange Press, UK): Students are flesh and blood, and the purpose of education is to stimulate and guide their self-development path. Feelings: Sometimes I feel empty, and sometimes I feel really insightful. What is empty is that there is no specific improved operation method, and what is insightful is that the purpose of education is indeed the same. The first priority of education reform is that the school must be an independent unit with its own recognized courses, which are developed by its own teachers according to the needs of the school. If we can't ensure this, then we can easily move from one formalism to another, from a bunch of useless and boring ideas to another formalism. Feeling: This passage is really wonderful, and it also tells the behind-the-scenes ideas of many "school-based" courses. "How can we have so much time to develop school-based curriculum? It's too late to catch the students. How can you have time to go to school-based courses? " So there will be perfunctory emotions and dull repetition. Is school-based curriculum valued? What is valuable is only in the form of extended courses. Is school-based curriculum important? The important thing is to present it in the form of a club class. This is really an irony. In my opinion, if division is excluded in education, it is destroying life. Feeling: This is actually a manifestation of "respecting students' differences". Every student has different characteristics and personalities, not to mention differences in family environment, growth experience and hobbies. Therefore, there is also the idea of preparing lessons for study, and education guides students to use methods that are "suitable" for their own growth and development. We should resolutely abandon the idea of setting unrealistic and distant goals in education. Feelings: In fact, this means that students should set goals suitable for their actual situation and resolutely put an end to being out of reach. Let the student jump to reach it, he will have a goal and stimulate his enterprise. If you put this sentence in the perspective of educating people, don't think that one method and one conversation can transform an underachiever and a student with learning difficulties. This is an impossible thing to decide. The situation of students will be repeated, just as Yan Yan said before. After talking to him, he can't get better at once. Today, he can't help talking to Wenbo behind him. Yes, but the problem is that he will converge with one look. Give him a short-term goal, don't talk nonsense and don't interrupt a class. Then do it for a day, two days, a week, and take your time. This is a long process. The instinct of development comes from oneself: discovery is done by oneself, training is self-training, and harvest is the result of one's own initiative. Teachers have a dual role. With their own personality and individuality, they make students resonate and inspire enthusiasm. At the same time, create an environment with wider knowledge and firmer goals. Feeling: This goes back to what I have always said: "Personal growth is a kind of self-growth". You want your own growth and development, not others. Students don't have such a concept, so what teachers should do is to stimulate their "enterprising spirit", which is what we often say. Self-completion, self-training and self-harvesting are of course inseparable from the guidance and help of teachers, so teachers should help them create such an environment. Unfortunately, as we all know, it is too difficult. I have always believed in such an educational principle: in teaching, once you forget that your students are flesh and blood, then you will encounter tragic failure. Feeling: Isn't that what you told me? Today, I attended the sixth grade art appreciation class "Walking in the Art World". It's too difficult. I can't wait to finish this course. Why? Because I treat the students in grades 7 and 8 according to their requirements, but I don't know that they are just in grade 6 from primary school. Some questions are asked, but there is no response, because I don't think about whether such questions can attract their attention and whether they are suitable for their difficulty, so that class will be listless and without passion, let alone how to attract students' interest. In addition, some students' bad habits such as talking and interrupting in class also affected the fluency of some teaching links, so that I interrupted the emphasis on discipline twice. So, isn't it that I regard the sixth grade as my ideal "robot" that makes me a little afraid of taking the sixth grade art class now? The root of education is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. As far as education is concerned, cramming knowledge and boring ideas are not only meaningless, but also often extremely harmful. Thank Whitehead for his educational purpose.