"Education is like vegetables, words are like fibers, and life is like vitamins. Textbooks that only pay attention to words and ignore life are like vegetables with fiber and no vitamins. Eating them can't nourish your strength. "
Mr. Tao Xingzhi pointed out: a school that is not life-centered is a dead school; Books without life as the center are dead books. Life and education are the same process, and education cannot be separated from life, and life cannot be separated from education. What kind of life requires what kind of education, and the content of education should be based on the needs of life. I have never heard of Mr. Tao Xingzhi raising life education to such a high level. It gave me a little shock, shocked by his incisiveness and profundity, and lamented the foresight of educators. Isn't this the quality education we are advocating now?
Mr. Tao Xingzhi's thought that "life is education" closely links life and education, which gives me infinite inspiration and thinking. In the process of education and teaching, we often ignore the life education for students and let them study in such a big environment of life. In Mr. Tao Xingzhi's view, words and books are just tools of life, not life itself. Education comes from life and is also produced by life. Words and books should not be the central content of education. "Life is education" advocates that life is everywhere, that is, education is everywhere; The whole society is a place to live, that is, a place to educate. This has expanded the scope and place of education and fundamentally changed the concept of education. Mr. Tao Xingzhi defined life education as "education for life, education for life, and education needed for the progress of life." Life education is produced on the basis of criticizing that traditional education is divorced from the reality of life, and it is the opposite of pure knowledge education. Teachers not only preach, teach and dispel doubts, but also let them learn to live, work and study. This is Mr. Tao Xingzhi's famous educational saying: teach thousands of people, teach people to seek truth, learn thousands of things and learn to be a man. This is also the educational purpose that we are now advocating. According to his thought, that is to say, "life is education" exists in human society, and life education comes into being when human life is born, and life education changes with the change of human life. Secondly, "life is education" corresponds to all kinds of life in the reality of human society. Life education is the education in life, and education is carried out in all kinds of life. Third, "life is education" is a kind of lifelong education, which is consistent with life. Only in life can our education have its own characteristics. Without real life, education is just empty preaching.
As the new curriculum advocates, students' learning background is life-oriented. Students will eventually go to society and life. Only by reflecting the needs of society and life, helping students understand social life and making schools a part of social life can the new curriculum truly reflect its essential functions. For every student, the life world is the first, and the knowledge world is differentiated from the life world and serves life. As a teacher, we should be good at capturing the available educational resources from the details of students' lives, let students walk into real life with vivid characters and examples, no matter the bright side or the dark side, let children touch and feel life with their hearts under the correct guidance of teachers, let students form the ability to distinguish right from wrong, good from evil, learn how to solve problems effectively, and gradually form a positive attitude towards life and correct values. Students cannot live without society. Only by turning the whole society into a school can the objects of education be more abundant and the significance of education be endless.
There are two ways for people to receive education-one is book knowledge (indirect, including listening), and the other is direct, that is, from practice. Life education includes these two parts and does not exclude reading life. Tao Xingzhi said that "life is education" is a big concept. The so-called "life", Tao Xingzhi said, life is life.