Montaigne, also translated as "Meng Dan",/kloc-a famous French humanist, essayist and educational thinker in the 6th century. Born in Bordeaux to a new noble family. When he grew up, Montaigne engaged in legal work, twice served as the mayor of Bordeaux, and later resigned and went home to write a book behind closed doors.
Montaigne's main work is Prose Collection, Volume 3, Chapter 107, in which there is a chapter on children's education. Prose collection is a work that embodies humanism, embodies the author's philosophical thought and social and political thought, and educational thought also occupies an important proportion.
Montaigne is a skeptical philosopher. The sentence "What do I know" illustrates the limitations of human understanding. On the issue of education, Montaigne devoted himself to cultivating new noble, a new gentleman with all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique, and advocated taking both body and mind into consideration. Action is more important than knowledge and action.
Advocate taking the world as the center and learning extensive knowledge. There are also many insights on educational methods. Montaigne's educational thoughts are scattered in his works, and there is no systematic discussion. However, the educational thoughts of Comenius, Locke and others in later generations were deeply influenced by Montaigne's educational theory.
New methods of children's education;
1. Oppose indoctrination and teach students in accordance with their aptitude. Educators should first understand the development level of children, and then open a path for children, and sometimes let children open a path themselves.
2. Oppose teaching authority. One is against the authority of teachers, and against the fact that only one teacher speaks in teaching and students are not given a chance to speak. The second is to oppose academic authority. I love knowledge and doubt.
3, know what you have learned, rote learning is not perfect knowledge, just leave what others ask to remember in memory. Only by understanding its essence and significance can we really have it.
4. Pay attention to practice and practice. Learning books is poor, so we should learn in practice. Therefore, practice, conversation and travel are very important for increasing knowledge and sharpening the mind.