01
Teach living books to children
Books are also dead and alive.
What is a living book? I think that what is recorded in books is nothing more than the thoughts and experiences of people, and if that person's thoughts and experiences are very noble and have a lot to do with life, then they can be regarded as living books. If the person who wrote the book has no value in thought or experience and has nothing to do with life, it is a dead book. When we teach children, we cannot be careless about the life and death of books; the books we teach must be systematic, coherent before and after, and not disorderly; this is living education. If you only know how to teach the book of death with your eyes closed, and do not care whether the book applies or not, then I dare to say that it is the education of death.
- The Complete Works of Tao Xingzhi, vol. 1, pp. 345-346
Zhu Yongxin's interpretation:
What books to read to children has always been a very important question.
Man is the product of his own food. For the child's physical development, it is very important whether the nutritional structure of the daily food is reasonable. For the spiritual growth of children, it is also very important whether the content of daily reading and learning is reasonable.
Therefore, Mr. Tao Xingzhi advocates recommending the thoughts and experiences of those "noble" individuals and those books that are closely related to life to students. These books are the real "living books". These books should be organic, not disorganized.
Dear parents, the times are developing, many books are uneven, it is difficult to say that it is "beneficial to open the book". At the very least, it is more beneficial to choose a volume. It is very important to choose the greatest classics for children, to construct a reasonable knowledge system, so as to develop the habit of thinking and train the way of thinking.
02
To create a world for children
On the relics of the adult world, we want to create the world of children. In the children's world, there are only truths and no rumors, only reason and no terror, only entrepreneurship and no happiness, only justice and no cruelty, only books to use and no books to read, only people - only people among people, no one to people, no people to people, no slaves.
— The Complete Works of Tao Xingzhi, vol. 3, p. 546
Zhu Yongxin's interpretation:
Dear parents, although our world is not perfect, we should try to create a better world for children as much as possible.
At the very least, in your family, create such a small world for your children, a world for children, a beautiful world!
03
Become a child to teach the child
If you become a child, there will be amazing miracles: teachers and students immediately become friends, schools immediately become paradises; you immediately feel that you are as big as a child, playing together, working together, no one thinks that you are a gentleman, you become a real gentleman.
—The Complete Works of Tao Xingzhi, vol. 2, p. 485
Zhu Yongxin's interpretation:
Dear parents, put down your shelf and become friends with your children, the family will not only become a place for education, but also a paradise for education!
04
"Learning" and "music" are inseparable
When students have interest, they are willing to use their full spirit to do things, so "learning" and "music" are inseparable. The gentlemen in the school have smiles, and the students have smiles. In some schools, Mr. Trump's face is blank, and the students are afraid of him, which is inevitable to skip school. Therefore, it is very important to try to arouse the interest of students.
—The Complete Works of Tao Xingzhi, vol. 1, p. 268
Zhu Yongxin's interpretation:
Dear parents, as Mr. Tao Xingzhi said, "learning" and "music" are always inseparable. If you want your child to really learn well, you must first give the fun back to the child.
05
Let the child solve the problem on his own
When we cultivate children, if they are too restrained, the child is described as withered; if he is allowed to run, let him jump, let him play, he can grow lively and energetic. If the body is like this, what about moral experience. The development of our moral education depends on the opportunity to solve difficult problems by ourselves when we encounter them. So when I encountered a problem, I was able to think of a solution to him, and I grew into a layer of judgment experience. The more problems are self-determined, the more experienced they are. If someone else solves the problem for me, even if it is temporarily over, the experience is taken away by others.
— The Complete Works of Tao Xingzhi, vol. 1, pp. 26-27
Zhu Yongxin's interpretation:
Dear parents, we can't replace the children to fight the world, don't cross the line to solve the problem for them, let them run and jump to play, and the children's bodies can be healthy. Let them solve problems on their own and overcome difficulties, so that their character can develop.
"Life and Education - Zhu Yongxin's Dialogue with Tao Xingzhi"
