What is the meaning of education?

The significance of education is not to adapt to the outside world, but to enrich one's heart.

Education is the education of human soul, not the accumulation of rational knowledge and understanding. Education itself means: a tree shakes another tree, a cloud pushes another cloud, and a soul awakens another soul. "-Jaspers

Education is an eternal means of cultural exchange in every era. A country without education and a country without education are playing house.

For a family, education is the premise of family happiness, stability and well-being. Without education, it is like hay in the cracks. Without nutrients, it is difficult to blossom everywhere.

It can be seen that the relationship between people and education is like fish without water, flowers without soil, and everything without sunshine.

Some time ago, there was a joke circulating on the internet: the reason why we should read more books and get more education is because when we see a group of birds flying over the lake,

I can recite "sunset and lonely Qi Fei, autumn waters and sky are the same color" instead of arguing there: I have to go, all birds! When we travel to the Gobi and ride horses, we say to ourselves, "The desert is lonely and the long river sets the yen", instead of shouting, "Oh, my God, it's all sand. Go back quickly! " This is of course a mockery, but unconsciously it reveals the core significance of education.

Education should return to what Confucius said, Mencius said, including Montaigne said, "Education is not to adapt to the outside world, but to enrich one's heart." Cicero, an ancient Greek philosopher, said that "the purpose of education is to liberate students from the slavery of reality, not to adapt to reality".

Education can not only impart knowledge, but also improve personal cultivation and increase our sensitivity to life, so as to know ourselves and constantly improve ourselves. In my opinion, this is the important value and significance given by education, and it is also the direction to guide us forward.

Extended data:

1. Children are not immature adults, and childhood has its intrinsic value.

If we use external utilitarian purposes to standardize education and ignore the value of growth itself, one of the most direct negative effects is to deny the intrinsic value of childhood. This will treat the child as a future existence, an immature adult, which seems to be of little value until he grows up. So the goal of education has become to prepare children for their future adult life. This absurd misunderstanding has a long history and is widely spread.

The idea of growing up is stupid in itself, as if children were not human before they grew up! Montessori first explicitly criticized this concept and established his theory of children's education on the basis of determining the value of children's personality. Dewey also pointed out that childhood has its inherent quality and significance, and it should not be regarded as an immature stage in life, just want to let it pass quickly.

Every stage of life has its own irreplaceable value, especially childhood. Childhood is the most important stage of physical and mental growth, and it should also be the happiest time in life. The greatest merit that education can achieve is to give children a happy and meaningful childhood, thus creating a good foundation for their happy and meaningful life.

However, today's general situation is that the whole adult world has imposed its own small utilitarian goals on children, driving them to fight on the utilitarian battlefield. In fact, in the society a few years later, the consequences of being brutally deprived of the value of childhood will appear in a terrible way.

The purpose of education is to liberate students from the slavery of reality, not to adapt to reality.

This is Cicero's famous saying. Today, the situation is just the opposite-education is doing one thing with all its strength, that is, shaping students with the goal of adapting to reality. It is of course necessary for people to live in society and adapt to reality, but this should not be the main purpose of education.

Montaigne said: learning is not to adapt to the outside world, but to enrich yourself. Confucius also advocated that learning is for oneself, not for others. Philosophers of all ages have emphasized that learning is to develop one's inner spiritual ability, so as to gain freedom in the face of external reality.

Of course, this is just an inner freedom. However, it is with this inner freedom, this independent personality and independent thinking ability that those excellent souls and hearts have played a huge role in changing the reality of human society. Education should create conditions for promoting inner freedom and cultivating excellent souls and thoughts. If you just adapt to reality, train children as animals.