-Excerpt from Huang Kejian:> At first glance, it seems that many people have never heard of it. Let me give you an example, such as art, painting, any kind of painting, painting has never been learned from reason; If you educate yourself according to the truth, or read a few books about calligraphy, it is suspicious to learn calligraphy. In fact, the real training of calligraphy is the imitation of classic calligraphy, to understand and comprehend. Once in a postgraduate class, I asked the students in the class before the preface what it meant to read 300 Tang poems, and said,' You can recite without writing poems'? Graduate students strongly disapprove. As a result, a student stood up and explained that you recited 300 Tang poems, and you can recite several fluently even if you can't write poems. This explanation is tasteless. In fact, these two sentences are very meaningful, meaning that the method of writing poetry is not to tell people the truth of writing poetry, and the truth of writing poetry will never be understood. Tang poetry is a glorious period in the history of China's poetry. You often recite, ponder, ponder, and naturally arouse the poetry in your heart. Over time, you will naturally write. This is the profound meaning of these two sentences. Writing poems in words is also good. I don't know his experience in writing poems, but he can't refute my remarks. I don't think he learned to write poetry by listening to any poet or literary theorist. If our education is simple, it can be summarized into two kinds: one is truth education and the other is example education. Learning calligraphy and painting begins with understanding, which is of course the most worth understanding. This kind of education is called model education. Truth education is feeble in the humanities. If Li Bai and Du Fu are asked to talk about the experience and truth of writing poems, I believe people will not be able to write poems after listening to them. Writing poetry is not good, just like computer operation. With training, you can operate the program if you are familiar with it. The computer can operate according to the program, but not writing. Chinese teaching is a model teaching to a great extent, and the truth will eventually fall on the model education. Even model education is of great significance to science. Scientific discovery is usually illogical, and it seems that scientific truth is very logical and organized. But after careful pursuit, the first proposition of the real scientific system, as an irreversible proposition, was illogical and illogical for a time, and to some extent, it was an epiphany. This is also an example education. No scientist can deduce his own theory from others' theories. Einstein's scientific theory can never be deduced from Newton's mechanical theory. The history of science is not only a history of pattern replacement, but also a procedural history of scientific thinking paradigm. No two of our calligraphy and painting are the same. We can judge the depth of their skills and artistic level, and there is an aesthetic standard that we can agree with. Humanistic things rely on truth education only as an auxiliary means, and ultimately rely on example education. A clever Chinese teacher instructs students to write: 1. Face life. Let the students experience life personally and speak their psychological words kindly. 2. Face the classics. Look at the fine products of ancient and modern China and foreign countries. It's incredible that other people's works are written after listening to some truth without reading them! Laozi's Tao Te Ching begins with two sentences: "Tao is extraordinary; It can be said that the Tao produced is by no means the kind of Tao I pursue. What is said is by no means the best truth. Due to the limitation of language itself, we often can't approach the truth of things with the help of form and structure, and the truth of things needs life to witness and experience. Carpenters teach apprentices nothing more than how to use axes and saws, but the subtleties of using axes and saws are still unable to communicate. If we teach people to walk a tightrope, the tightrope walker is nothing more than saying that the body should be balanced and the center of gravity should fall on the silk thread. But after listening to the truth, we still can't walk well. This is not a matter of truth in itself, but a kind life experience. Defining life is one-sided. The language that can tell the truth is pale, and the pallor of language is only the goodness of life. For example, you use many good words to describe one dish, but it is difficult to describe another dish, and it is difficult to tell the difference. When it comes to love between men and women, no woman likes you because you talked about the experience and realm of love, sometimes it is love at first sight. No one finds a lover by reason. Therefore, "Tao is extraordinary" is a wise saying. The so-called model education is to objectify his inner life state through his behavior (imitating and understanding their life state with our life state, being realized by my life, and then objectifying my life feelings).
The calligrapher behind got the true biography of the calligrapher in front. What they write is different, and spiritual inheritance is a strange thing. So we teach students not to teach routines. The students here are rigid in thinking. Routine makes students learn quickly, but it quickly kills inspiration. Smart Chinese teachers teach children the courage to experience and speak. Another point is to face the classics. Example education is related to the concept of duty, so it is not easy for us to be teachers. Our every move is a role model for students, who imitate you all the time. The teacher's actions, the expression on her face and the writing posture on the blackboard all affect the children. In a sense, I'm not only talking about Chinese or math classes, but also about people being models. The most essential implication of normal university is that "teachers are role models, role models and models", and parents are the earliest role models for children. A colleague said that his children are stupid and always give candy to the whole class. I say this is a virtue, don't teach children to be selfish. Because selfishness is not limited to what parents expect, it always carries out consistent logic. Your parents made the model, and he will imitate it in the future. Teachers are sacred in the eyes of children. Model education is the translation of life and the alienation of spirit. Everything is new to children, such as Nietzsche's Holy Start. Teachers have a profound influence on children's minds. Models are the inheritance of spiritual temperament and a kind of sentimentalism. Lincoln looked at someone's face when recruiting employees and let him go. Then he said something very meaningful: a person should be responsible for his appearance after 40 years old. One person's body reveals temperament and subtle meaning, and another mind will accept it. Treating people with intuition is sometimes too rash, but it is also reasonable. As Confucius said, "forty without confusion", because the inner world is stereotyped, people can reveal a charm from the outside and have their own set of behaviors and actions. Children's lives are very sensitive, and example education should cultivate students' introverted spirit. At present, moral education has not played a great role. Is to turn moral education into truth education. Giving priority to example education will play a role. This is not politicization, not truth preaching, but life education.
-Excerpt from Huang Kejian:> Forgetting life is the greatest sorrow of education, and neglecting life is the greatest dereliction of duty and misfortune of education. I once wrote that life is more sacred than any knowledge, rules, discipline, even honor, the promise of future development and the possibility of happiness, and everything. All life is irreplaceable by other life, and life is unique. The reverence for life is the ethical starting point of education and the value of education. I also want to continue to say that life is mysterious and can never be exhausted. Life is always in the present, which is the basis of all happiness in our flesh. Life makes education possible, rich and incredible. Paying attention to and respecting life is the first meaning of education. We should always remember that education is the education of life and school is the school of life. Everything is because we are alive, so we can only hope to live better. The limitation of life urges us to act, and living the meaning is the value of our life.
-Starting from Zhang Wenzhi's Crossing the Border, life is the existence of life. According to Mr. Huang Kejian, educators and educatees exist as concrete people that no one can replace, and educational behavior always points to concrete everyone. Regardless of the giving and receiving of knowledge, the opening of wisdom is ultimately to enlighten or moisten life, that is, to establish people and complete life. Education can never forget and ignore the existence of human life, and because of the uniqueness, richness and diversity of human life, education has become fascinating, troublesome and difficult, and any educational exploration is endless. Therefore, all educational behaviors need to reflect on themselves and examine their values. Education really becomes human education because of its affirmation and perfection, and schools become human schools. It is precisely because it points to specific people that life-oriented education becomes both urgent and possible. It is intelligent and reflective in nature. It focuses on practice, constantly generating and surpassing itself. Life-oriented education is always on the road of life.
-from Zhang Wenzhi's Crossing the Border.