Tao Xingzhi's Educational Idea

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Source: 5 1 Education 2005-9- 12 9:2 1:30 Browse: 186.

Mr Tao Xingzhi is the most influential educator and educational thinker in modern China. He is also the pioneer of education with the most critical and creative spirit. His broad educational thought, realistic educational practice and moral style of integrating knowledge with practice set a brilliant example for us, and he deserves to be called "a great people's educator" and "a model for future generations".

When we enter the new century full of hope and challenges with confidence, as educators, we deeply feel the heavy burden and responsibility on our shoulders. Facing the challenge of the rapid development of science and technology in the world, we must enhance the spirit of national innovation to a height related to the rise and fall of the Chinese nation. Education shoulders a special mission in cultivating innovative spirit and talents. President Jiang linked "innovation" with the rise and fall of the nation and the survival of the country. Innovation is no longer only related to the development speed of our country, but determines our life and death. Therefore, in the new century, taking innovative spirit, innovative thinking, innovative system, innovative educational methods and models as the theme of education reform has become the consensus and trend of world education development. Under the new situation, it is still of great practical and guiding significance to look at today's educational reform in connection with Tao Xingzhi's educational thought theory. He is full of the spirit of the times, the spirit of innovation and the insight of people's educational thought, which embodies the essence of quality education today, becomes the source for us to continuously absorb the nutrition of educational reform, and gives us profound enlightenment.

"Life education theory" is the main line and important cornerstone of Mr. Tao Xingzhi's educational thought, and its spiritual connotation is very clear, that is, mass education-for the liberation of the people and the happiness of people's lives. His Little Mister, the teaching method of combining teaching with learning, society is school, life is education, and everyone is a teacher, all of which are the embodiment of his educational thought. He believes that traditional education divorced from life and labor will stifle children's physical and mental development, and as a result, it will cultivate a group of useless "bookworms" without innovative spirit and courage. In connection with Tao Xingzhi's educational thought, we obviously haven't done enough. The paternalistic style of teacher-student relationship has not changed, and students' dependence on teachers' passive learning style is still the mainstream. Although we know that in order to reflect students' subjective spirit, students should be allowed to study actively, the current educational environment, teaching materials, curriculum standards and work and rest arrangements are not conducive to students' forming the habit of active learning, and are not conducive to students' innovative spirit. Under the pressure of teachers' condescending, students' sitting teaching method, a large number of teaching contents and eagerness for success, students can't freely allocate learning time and choose learning contents. Under such heavy pressure, students will naturally lose their interest and confidence in learning. How can we talk about innovation? Tao Xingzhi's "life education theory" points out the direction for us to reform this educational malpractice. Our education must face the society and life; When entering the society and life, we should provide students with more opportunities to do things by themselves and use their brains, give them more choices, including the choice of study time, study methods and study contents, and encourage students to carry out practice, exploration and innovation activities according to their own interests and needs. The corresponding curriculum, educational content and educational model should also be close to the theory of life education. Only in this way can Tao Xingzhi's educational thought of "emancipating students' minds and hands" be truly embodied and students' personality can be fully and harmoniously developed. Only in this way can we live up to General Secretary Jiang's proposal that "education shoulders a special mission in cultivating innovative spirit and innovative talents"

"Thousands of teachers in Qian Qian teach people to seek truth, and thousands of students in Qian Qian learn to be human." This wise saying of Mr. Tao Xingzhi is the eternal theme of our "teaching and educating people". In the era of market economy, fierce competition and sudden changes in the world, "teaching people to seek truth" has more practical significance. Its significance is twofold: one is "the unity of knowledge and action". What kind of people should our education train in the final analysis? What is the fundamental purpose of education and the primary task of implementing quality education? This is a question to reveal the true meaning of educational purpose. What I want to emphasize here is that while paying attention to the unity of knowing and doing (moral, intellectual and physical), we can't ignore students' psychological experience, that is, how to make students know and do harmoniously, and really let students "learn to be human" and become true, kind and beautiful people. As we know, from recognition to action is a complex psychological process of moral quality. Contemporary teenagers are active in thinking. Facing the complicated world, they will think, "What am I living for?" Thus, the problem of outlook on life arises. It is difficult for them to correctly combine the short-term and long-term development of their lives and form a mature psychology. Therefore, educators should shoulder their due responsibilities, help, educate and guide them to establish an outlook on life with patriotism, socialism and collectivism as the core, and the morality, quality and will established under the guidance of this outlook on life. Second, seek the truth. We live in an information age, and the information and updated knowledge that students are exposed to are changing rapidly. Faced with these, students are both interested and difficult to deal with. Interest is the key to exploring the truth, but in the process of exploring the truth, students are often confused by various problems and entangled by various non-essential natural phenomena. This kind of confusion needs the correct guidance and active encouragement of our educators. When students have worked hard to solve various problems and understand the nature of things, they will feel excited. This kind of excitement is a denial of students' confusion and an affirmation of learning and exploration activities. The joy and pleasant experience it brings can cultivate a person's sense of self-confidence and dignity, further strengthen his exploration behavior, and thus motivate himself to continue to make new creations.

"Come with a heart, not a blade of grass." This is the motto of Mr. Tao Xingzhi, and it is also a vivid portrayal of his lifelong commitment to people's education and his exploration of the bright road of education in China. He believes that teachers should "do what their predecessors have not done, but what is unknown today", and advocates that teachers should be inventors rather than teachers. In June1943165438+10, Xinhua Daily published Tao Xingzhi's creative declaration, enthusiastically eulogizing the creative spirit and encouraging people to have "fearless axe", "sword of wisdom", "King Kong's belief and will" and "March on the road of creation". This view of teachers put forward by Mr. Tao Xingzhi is exactly what our contemporary teachers should pursue. There is a simple reason. First, teachers are not in heaven, and students face the same challenges. Teachers should acquire these skills and qualities before students. Otherwise, he can't guide students to learn to live and care. The key problem here is that teachers should have a clear dialectical view, that is, to understand the dialectical relationship between individual survival and development and caring for and contributing to others. Teachers should inspire students to understand this dialectical relationship by personal experience and experience, so that students' survival is based on the utilitarian goal of benefiting the public rather than simply benefiting themselves. Secondly, creative teachers can cultivate creative students. Teachers should "teach people to fish", not "teach people to fish". Therefore, regardless of the opposition of conservative forces, Mr. Tao Xingzhi changed "teaching method" to "teaching method". He believes that "the teacher's responsibility is not to teach, but to teach and teach students to learn." "Teaching methods must be based on learning methods." His educational thoughts enlighten us that teachers should pay more attention to the guidance of students' learning methods, teach students learning methods, attach importance to the study of learning methods, and give full play to students' initiative and creativity. "Teaching is for not teaching", and it has become a top priority to teach students to learn how to learn, how to live and how to survive.

"Life is alive, and heaven and earth have their own endowments. Come for a big event and do a big event. " This is a poem by Mr. Tao Xingzhi, entitled "Encourage yourself and encourage comrades". His own life is to constantly pursue the truth and learn to be a model of a real person. He is good at starting from China's national conditions, creatively carrying out educational work, exploring and opening up a new educational road in China, and cultivating a large number of outstanding talents for the country. He worked hard for the people's education and struggled all his life.

Mr. Tao Xingzhi's educational thought and practice have left us precious spiritual wealth. We should learn from his noble moral sentiments, study his rich educational heritage, improve our own quality in an all-round way, and make ourselves a pioneer in the spiritual world, a seeder in the field of wisdom and a disseminator of human civilization.