"Life" means the presence of life. What “is the presence of life”? Take, for example, "humility." If someone writes a book "On Modesty", and after it is written, ask people to promote it and let the media hype it up, saying how brilliant the book is, how unprecedented it is, and how it is unprecedented. People who are "modest" in this way are not modest at all. When they are modest, they are not present in life. Humility has nothing to do with their state of life. Of course, true humility is not the kind of behavior that intentionally leaves a modest impression on others, but should be a natural expression of life sentiment or spiritual state. Lao Tzu said, "To be virtuous is not to be virtuous, because it is virtuous; to be virtuous is not to be virtuous, so it is not virtuous." He is talking about this kind of truth that life is present and natural. Let me use another analogy to explain what is life." You can take it as a little joke. If someone writes a multi-volume book "On Silence is Golden", think about what a big deal it would be. It's a funny thing. The author advocates "silence is golden", but he uses a multi-volume masterpiece to prove it. His life is completely disconnected from his proposition. This is the absence of life. Advocating the "teaching without words", he wrote the 5,000-word "Tao Te Ching" just to "force" (reluctantly) "speak" for it, and at the beginning he said such words as "Tao can be taught, but it is not Tao" , reminding you not to limit your true life of understanding "Tao" to words about "Tao". Zen has always valued understanding the heart and nature in the real life experience, so it advocates "not establishing words". I am not interested in tedious intellectual discussions. I am talking about Laozi and Zen, not to ask everyone to believe in Laozi's teachings or the Buddhist teachings of Zen, but to illustrate that "life transformation" is reality. The life practice is consistent with what the practitioner says and believes, which is to let the principles you believe in be vividly displayed in your life.
——Excerpted from Huang Kejian's concept of vocation. Model education - a speech at Quanzhou No. 2 Experimental Primary School on February 11, 2004. At first glance, it seems that many people have never heard of model education. Let me give an example, such as art and painting. , any kind of painting, learning painting never starts from the doctrine; if you learn calligraphy according to the doctrine, or learn calligraphy after reading a few books on calligraphy, it is very doubtful. In fact, the real training of calligraphy is to learn the classic calligraphy. I once took a postgraduate class and asked the students in the class what it meant by the words in the preface of "Three Hundred Tang Poems", "If you don't know how to compose poems, you can also recite them". The graduate students were very dissatisfied. As a result, one student stood up and explained that you have read three hundred Tang poems, and you can recite a few poems even if you don't know how to write poems. In fact, these two sentences are meaningless. The words are very meaningful. It means that the method of writing poetry is not to tell people the principles of writing poetry. The principles of writing poetry can never be explained clearly. Tang poetry is a glorious period in the history of Chinese poetry. You often recite it, ponder it, and read it. Try to figure it out, and you will naturally mobilize the poetry in your heart, and over time you will naturally be able to write. The deeper meaning of these two sentences is like this. Wen Zhi is also good at writing poetry. I don’t know his experience in writing poetry, but he doesn’t understand what I said. Refutation. I think he did not learn to write poetry after listening to a theory from a poet or literary theorist. If we make a simple summary, there are two types of education: one is moral education, and the other is moral education. It is a model education. Learning calligraphy and painting starts with understanding, which is of course the most worthy of understanding. This kind of education, I call it model education. If Li Bai and Du Fu were to talk about poetry, it would be pale. Based on my experience and reasoning, I believe that people still cannot write poetry after hearing it. It is like operating a computer. After training, everyone can operate according to the program, but writing cannot be operated according to the program. . To a large extent, Chinese language teaching is a kind of model teaching, and the truth goes round and round and ultimately falls on model education.
Children's lives are very sensitive, and model education should cultivate students' introversion. Nowadays, moral education does not play a big role. Moral education is turned into moral education. If it is based on model education, it will be effective. This is not politicization, not moral preaching, but life-oriented education.
——Excerpted from Huang Kejian’s vocational concept and model education—a speech delivered at Quanzhou No. 2 Experimental Primary School on February 11, 2004. Forgetting life is the greatest tragedy of education. , Indifference to life is the biggest dereliction of duty and misfortune in education. I once wrote: Life is more sacred than any knowledge, rules, discipline, even honor, the promised future development and the possibility of happiness, everything. All lives cannot be replaced by other lives. Life is unique. Respect for life is the ethical starting point of education and the value of education. I would also like to go on to say: Life is mysterious and can never be exhausted. Life is always now and is the basis for all the happiness of our bodies. Life makes education possible, rich and incredible. Pay attention to life and respect life. [Fate is the first priority of education. We must 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 our actions, and living out the meaning is the value of our life.
——Excerpted from Zhang Wenzhi's "Crossing the Boundary" According to Mr. Huang Kejian's expression, life is the presence of life, that is, both the educator and the educated are concrete people who cannot be replaced by any one person. As for existence, educational behavior always points to each specific person. Regardless of the teaching and receiving of knowledge and the opening of wisdom, it is ultimately to enlighten or moisten life, that is, to establish people and perfect people's lives. Education can never forget or ignore the existence of human life. Because human life is unique, rich, and diverse, education becomes charming, troublesome, and difficult. The exploration of any education will never end. Therefore, all educational behaviors require self-questioning and value examination. Education truly becomes a human education because of its affirmation and perfection of people, and a school becomes a human school. 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 and is constantly generating and surpassing oneself. Life-oriented education Education is always on the road of life.
——Excerpted from "Crossing Boundaries" by Zhang Wenzhi