Since Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty listened to the wild words of the great Confucian Dong Zhongshu, deposed hundreds of families, and exalted Confucianism alone, China began to erode Confucianism for more than two thousand years, making the imperial power bigger and bigger, the bureaucracy more and more thick, and the class hierarchy more and more overwhelming. In feudal society for two thousand years, the development of society stagnated, and the people's thinking was bound and became more and more ignorant. Educational thinking has also remained unchanged for thousands of years, until the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the teaching methods are still stuck in stereotypes, stubborn in thinking, the people's wisdom is not open, science and technology are backward, let alone talk about national rejuvenation, how to strengthen the country and enrich the people.
This backward form of education lasted for two thousand years
The cannons of the Western powers have opened the door of China and the hearts of the Chinese people, and a group of progressive young people have gone abroad, abandoned old ideas, broken free from the shackles of Confucianism, eagerly absorbed the advanced educational ideas of the West, and explored a new way out of Chinese education.
The cannons of the Western powers woke up Chinese
Among these young people, there was a teenager who came from a poor background and had a difficult life, but he was talented and intelligent, studied seriously and diligently, and studied under dewey, a famous American educator. Because of his study of Wang Yangming's theory of "the unity of knowledge and action", he became fascinated, and once changed his name to "Zhixing", and later realized the truth that "action is the beginning of knowledge, and knowledge is the completion of action" and changed his name to "Xingzhi" - he is Mr. Tao Xingzhi, a famous educator and thinker in China.
The great people's educator Mr. Tao Xingzhi
Someone asked: Tao Xingzhi has been dead for more than seventy years, is his educational ideas and theories still meaningful? My answer is yes, yes, Mr. Tao Xingzhi's educational ideas still have very strong modern values, and Mr. Tao Xingzhi's educational ideas are mainly civilian education, life education and harmony education ideas. At present, some economically developed coastal areas are very actively studying Mr. Tao Xingzhi's educational ideas and practicing Mr. Tao Xingzhi's educational concepts, and the leaders of the State Council have also attached great importance to it and are actively promoting it. All this proves that the appeal of Tao Xingzhi's educational thought is still strong.
Tao Xingzhi's educational thought will always shine
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We all know that our country is a socialist country, we believe in Marxism, our guiding ideology of education is naturally also Marxist thought, And Marx's theory on the all-round development of man pointed out that education should be combined with productive labor to promote the all-round development of man. Mr. Tao Xingzhi also put forward the idea of life education of "teaching and doing unity", which coincides with Marx's educational thought. During his teaching, he often led teachers and students to study and plant crops in the fields, and to work while doing education, he proposed, "The school is a small society, and society is a big school", and he has long realized that the student is both a person in the school and a person in society, and that he is the same person in the school and society. Therefore, he believes that education must let students learn to take responsibility, to become a person who can promote social development and contribute to the country.
Teaching people to seek truth and learn to be real people is exactly Mr. Tao Xingzhi's educational ideal
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What is a "student"? Tao Xingzhi's explanation of "students" is deeply inspiring and enlightening to solve the relationship between teachers and students today. The meaning of "learning" is to learn for oneself, not to sit and be taught; the meaning of "life" is to live or survive. What students learn is the way of life, learning is to make a living, to prepare for future life. Tao Xingzhi asked for this, teachers should not focus on teaching, but on guiding students how to learn. In today's terms, students are the main body of learning, teachers are the leader, can not be full of classroom, cramming education, but should inspire and guide students to learn to learn, master the method of learning, to help students find the joy of learning. He urged teachers to promote teaching democracy, participate in students' learning on an equal footing, and provide specific guidance to students.
Love is the original intention of Mr. Tao Xingzhi's education
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At the end of the last century, China put forward the concept of quality education, what is quality education? Quality education is based on the theory of all-round human development and the actual needs of social development, with the fundamental purpose of comprehensively improving the basic quality of all students, respecting students' subjectivity and initiative, paying attention to developing people's intellectual potential, and forming a sound personality of people as the fundamental characteristics of education. Its connotation includes facing all students, promoting all-round development, promoting personality development, and the most important one is: to cultivate innovative spirit and practical ability as the focus of education.
The unity of teaching and quality education coincides
In education and teaching, Tao Xingzhi attaches great importance to the all-round development and personality development of students, and pays more attention to students' innovative spirit and practical ability. In 1932, he vigorously advocated science education in a speech at Hangzhou Normal University, requiring students to learn to actively explore, and in a speech at Shanghai Daxia University in 1933, he emphasized the spirit of innovation and the spirit of questioning, encouraging students to cultivate creativity and practical ability.
Mr. Tao Xingzhi encouraged students to question, innovate and practice
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Mr. Tao Xingzhi devoted his life to the education of the Chinese common people, bowed down, and died in Shanghai on July 25, 1946, due to overwork and illness.
Song Qingling praised Mr. Tao Xingzhi as a master of the Wanshi
Mr. Tao Xingzhi's achievements in the history of modern education in China have been highly praised by all sectors of society. Mao Zedong praised him as a "great people's educator"; he was praised by Soong Ching-ling as a "master of all generations"; Zhou Enlai called him "a Bolshevik who followed the party without reservation"; the famous Chinese General Fei Zhengqing in the United States said that he had surpassed Dewey; Brian, vice president of Southeastern United University in the United States, praised Tao Xingzhi as "a great man of a generation, famous throughout the ages, and Mr. Tao Xingzhi's educational thought is not only a strange flower in the history of chinese national education, but also a banner of the world's education forest." In India, Mahatma Gandhi and the great writer Tagore advocated and promoted Tao Xingzhi's educational ideas in India.
Mr. Tao Xingzhi's educational ideas guide the development of education in the new era in China
"The soul of democracy, the light of education" is the noblest and most true portrayal of Mr. Tao Xingzhi. Whether in the past, at present and in the future, Tao Xingzhi's thoughts and spirit will always inspire us to bravely forge ahead in China's education cause, promote education modernization and reform, and implement quality education.
Mr. Tao Xingzhi is immortal, and Tao Xingzhi's ideas are passed on from generation to generation
-- With this article, I would like to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the death of Mr. Tao Xingzhi, a great Chinese people's educator