Tao Xingzhi's famous words on education

1. Doing is the beginning of knowing, and knowing is the achievement of doing. Mohist debate puts forward three kinds of knowledge, one is self-knowledge; The second is to know; The third is knowledge. Familiarity comes from personal experience, that is, from "doing" Knowledge is acquired from others, or taught by teachers and friends, or conveyed by books, which can be classified into this category. Say that knowledge is inferred knowledge. At present, most schools only value listening and speaking, and almost all knowledge is summed up through listening and speaking, while intimate knowledge is almost completely waved outside the door. No one pays attention to knowledge, and at most it is inferred from the knowledge heard.

2. Education is the foundation of the country. Primary and secondary education is the fundamental plan of the country. We should use scientific methods to analyze and study and conduct field experiments to avoid going astray.

We firmly believe that health is the starting point of life, which is also the starting point of education. We firmly believe that teachers must never get tired of learning, so that they will never get tired of teaching. We firmly believe that rural teachers must have farmers' skills, scientific minds and the spirit of transforming society. We are convinced that if teachers all over the country have the determination to "devote themselves to children's education until death do us part", they will certainly create a great new life for our nation.

4. Teachers' responsibilities are: teaching thousands of religions and teaching people to seek truth; The duty of students is to learn everything and learn to be a real person.

The key of culture is to let students get the four most important things: first, Chinese; Second, foreign languages; The third is mathematics; The fourth is the scientific method-the scientific method of studying and managing things. Instead of treating students as Tianjin ducks and filling in some fragmentary knowledge, it is better to give them some keys so that they can automatically develop cultural treasures and cosmic treasures.

6. Real education is a kind of heart-to-heart activity. Only from the heart can we touch the depths of the soul.

7. The so-called sound personality must include: first, private morality is the foundation of the body, and public morality is the foundation of serving the society and the country; Second, the knowledge and skills necessary for life; Third, a strong and lively body; Fourth, the feeling and joy of beauty.

8. To be a complete person, there are three elements: first, you must have a healthy body-a good body, in order to gain a firm foothold in the material environment. Gentlemen, if you want to be an 80-year-old young man, you can shoulder heavy responsibilities. Don't be a 18-year-old man. Second, we should have independent thinking-we should be open-minded, thorough and have the ability to judge right and wrong. Third, you must have an independent occupation-you must have an independent occupation to make a profit. People who have profits can naturally get social returns.

9. If you want to stand on your own feet, you must have the courage to enlarge the experimental spirit and shoot it into the new theory that has not been invented; I am not afraid of hard work, fatigue, obstacles and failure, and I am bent on discovering the mysterious new principles of education.

10. Broken can be repaired. Wash it when it is dirty. Diligence is humility. Chaos is the reason. Pay the debt immediately. Disease is the cure. Change it after it. Good is happiness. Think about it when you do it. Tired is rest. Write back immediately. The account is recorded.

1 1. Forgive its shortcomings for its advantages.

12. Mr. Wang should not teach exclusively, his responsibility is to teach people to be human; A student should not specialize in reading; His duty is to learn the way of life.

13. Teachers hold the destiny of teenagers and the destiny of the nation and mankind.

14. Morality is the foundation of being a man. Even if you have some knowledge and skills, it is useless. Moreover, the greater the knowledge and skills of people without morality, the greater the evil they can do.

15. Our fundamental attitude towards books is that books are tools, tools for life and tools for doing things. Tools are for people; Books are also for people to read. Books must have a purpose. When we come across a book, we must ask: Can you help me do it better? Can you help me live a richer life?

16. Wisdom, benevolence and courage are important spiritual heritages of China. In the past, it was regarded as the "goddess of the world", and today, it is still an important symbol of personal perfect development. We need smart, kind and brave people. Without wisdom, benevolence is a coward's benevolence. Without wisdom, courage is a man's courage. Being unkind and wise is cunning wisdom; Heartless courage is the courage of a petty device; Wisdom without courage is faint wisdom; Benevolence without courage is a verbal benevolence.

17. Students should be eager to learn. Only a gentleman who never tires of learning can teach students who never tire of learning.

18. What students are required to do, teachers and staff do it by hand; What students are required to learn, teachers and staff are all learning by hand; Students are required to abide by the rules, and faculty members are required to abide by them in person.

19. Educating people is the same as planting trees. First of all, we should understand the characteristics of flowers and trees, and give fertilization, watering and training education according to different situations. This is called "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude".

20. Living talent education is not to instill knowledge, but to give students as many keys as we know to develop cultural treasures.

2 1. We want to live books, not dead books; Real books, not fake books; Books that need to be moved are not static books; Use books, don't read them. Generally speaking, we should be guided by life-centered teaching, not text-centered textbooks.

22. A good teacher is not teaching, not teaching students, but teaching students to learn.

23. There is Watt under your pointer, Newton in your cold eyes and Edison in your ridicule. Don't be too busy driving them away. You don't have to wait to sit on the steamboat, light a lamp and finish calculus before you realize that they are your pupils.

24. Two different tendencies should be prevented in education: one is to completely eliminate the boundary between teaching and learning and deny the wrong tendency of teachers' leading role; The other is the wrong tendency of only disciplining, not asking students' interests and not paying attention to the questions raised by students. The former tendency must be to go with the flow without a plan; The latter tendency is bound to indoctrinate students into roast ducks.

Education can't create anything, but it can stimulate children's creativity and engage in creative work. We find that children are creative. Knowing that children are creative will further emancipate their creativity.

26. Do things hard and speak softly. From beginning to end, the line is correct. Don't fight back, don't talk back, bear the burden of humiliation and be on the defensive. A porridge and a meal are hard-won. Encourage yourself and cherish material resources. Forget the bitterness, forget the public and private. Be good at making friends with others. Respect for a long time.

27. The common problem of education in China is that people who use their brains don't use their hands, and those who don't use their hands use their brains, so they can't do anything. The countermeasure of China's educational revolution is the alliance of hands and brains, and as a result, the strength of hands and brains can be incredible. Long song: There are two treasures in life, the hand and the brain. Use your head, not your hand, and you will be knocked down. Use your hands instead of your brain, and you won't have enough to eat. You can be a great person who started the world with your hands and brain!

28. Emancipate children's minds, hands and feet, space and time, so that children can fully live a free life and get real education from it. Emancipate his mind so that he can think; Liberate his hands and make him capable; Liberate his eyes so that he can see; Liberate his mouth so that he can speak; Liberate his time and let him go to the big society of nature to gain more knowledge; Liberate his space, don't fill up his homework, don't force him to catch the exam, don't attack his homework with his parents, give him some free time to digest what he has learned, learn something he is eager to learn, and do something he is willing to do.

29. How are heroic democratic fighters trained? The first set of kung fu is, "the benevolent is not worried, the wise is not confused, the brave is not afraid, and the great does not love." The second set of kung fu is: "wealth can't be immoral, poverty can't be moved, power can't be bent, and beauty can't be moved." With these virtues, no matter what pass you meet, you will pass smoothly.

30. If life, work and study can be automated, the effect of education will get twice the result with half the effort. Therefore, we pay special attention to the cultivation of automatic power, so that it can pay attention to all life, work and study. Automation is conscious action, not spontaneous action. Conscious action needs proper cultivation to be realized.

3 1. Collective life is an important driving force for children's self-development towards socialization; It is necessary for the normal psychological development of children. A child who does not get this normal development may end up in tragedy.

32. The headmaster is the soul of a school. To comment on a school, we must first comment on its principal.

33. Dare to explore new ideas that have not been invented, that is, creative spirit; Dare to enter the uncivilized frontier is the pioneering spirit. When creating, look deep; when developing, look far. Generally speaking, we should have the courage to create and develop. In education, those who dare to create are creative educators.

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—— The above is excerpted from 50 famous sayings of Tao Xingzhi's education.