It is particularly important that aesthetic education should start with children and let them know what beauty is. ""Since arithmetic is so important, children are still learning Olympiad, as if only Olympiad is a smart child. We reflect on what kind of education we should give our children.

Beauty is the essence, core and soul of education. Educational practice should aim at cultivating students' three core qualities: artistic feeling, philosophical speculation and scientific argumentation, and develop comprehensively and systematically around the construction of three life realms: aesthetic realm, heaven and earth realm and utilitarian realm. ""Beauty is not only the fundamental difference between people and animals, but also between people (the fundamental difference between humanists and groupies is aesthetic difference, the former's aesthetic model is elegant beauty, and the latter's aesthetic model is popular beauty).

The other article is "National crisis, only the' aesthetic education system' can save China" (/blog-320333-668895.html), which is a bit dazzling and reminds people of the slogan "Only socialism can save China". Taking "the education theory based on beauty" as the standard, the author compares the education between China and the United States, and thinks that the education system in the United States is close to 70% of this standard, while that in China is close to 30%. The conclusion drawn from this is

The educational system in contemporary China has become an educational system that puts the cart before the horse and encourages others. Today's educational concept of "Don't let children lose at the starting line" is precisely "Let all children in China lose at the starting line".

This reminds me of another senior scholar, Zi Zhongyun's similar view.

Of all the problems in China, education is the most serious. The education in China now teaches extreme utilitarianism from kindergarten, which completely stifles people's creativity and imagination. If China's education does not change, China's race will degenerate. This process is like a spoiled potato.

Educator Ling Ke is a Chinese American. 1963 was born in Wutongqiao, Leshan, Sichuan, and 1988 graduated from Chongqing University. He studied pedagogy in Chongqing Normal University and psychology under Professor Tang Zijie. He has served as president of Chongqing University Music Association, director of Chongqing Learning Potential Research Center and provost of Sichuan Aida School of Management. In 2004, he settled in San Francisco, USA, and founded an international holistic education organization in the United States, dedicated to promoting the "holistic education model" around the world. 20 1110/0/0/day, an educational monograph "Questioning the Essence of Education" was published in China People's Daily Press. In his book, he briefly describes aesthetic education as a set of strategies:

The strategy of prenatal education is to cultivate sensitive people. The strategy of early childhood education is to cultivate happy people. The strategy of primary education is to cultivate aesthetic people. The strategy of middle school education is to cultivate people with aesthetic spirit, harmonious development and creative ability. The strategy of university education is to cultivate people with a world cultural mind and good at solving problems.

20 13 China will publish two books, China Children Losing at the Starting Line and Cultivating Wild and Noble Children. Its core point of view is:

People's growth is like the order of "spring, summer, autumn and winter", which has an internal rhythm; Every child has a hero in his heart. The secret of being a good parent and teacher is to try to wake up this hero in your heart. Beauty is the essence, core, soul and starting point of education. Humanism is the foundation of establishing people, and science and technology are the skills of establishing people; Literature, history and philosophy is the soul subject of a university. Universities are strong in literature, history and philosophy education, universities are strong, countries are strong, and literature, history and philosophy are weak.

This thought is similar to that of Wang Guowei, a master of Chinese studies, and Cai Yuanpei, an educator a hundred years ago. I hope that this spring, an east wind calling for "aesthetic education" will blow all over China, lighting a glimmer of light for our lifeless education reform. I believe that "a single spark can start a prairie fire." This will be the hope of children in China, the hope of education in China and the hope of the Chinese nation and culture.