什么是教育?这是一个既简单又复杂的问题。在此,我想对教育说几点自己的理解,因为这儿点挺重要,教育上的许多错误都由此发生,不说确实不行。第一点要借一个外国人的话。雅斯贝尔斯在《什么是教育》这本书里说:“教育是人的灵魂的教育,而非理智知识和认识的堆集。”这就是说,光教给孩子一些知识,只重视孩子的文化学习,这还不是完全的教育。完全的教育,是把孩子作为一个完整的人来培养的工作。作为一个人,孩子不仅需要知识,他更需要灵魂!他还有情感、意志、信仰、交往、行为规范等等方面需要培养和发展。这一点其实不难理解。我们不是常说,教师是人类灵魂的工程师吗?那么可以肯定,教育就是塑造人的灵魂的一项工程。然而,在实际工作中,许多教育工作者和家长,就是经常在这一点上发生错误。他们除了关心孩子的学习成绩,就不知道还应当关心别的什么了。其结果,孩子除了 What is education? This is a simple and complex issue. Here, I want to say a few words about my own understanding of education, because it is quite important here, and many mistakes in education have taken place. The first point to borrow a foreigner’s words. Jaspers said in What Is Education: “Education is the soul of man’s education, not the accumulation of intellectual knowledge and understanding.” That is to say, to teach children only some knowledge, only emphasis Children’s cultural learning, this is not a complete education. Complete education is the job of nurturing a child as a complete person. As a person, the child not only needs knowledge, but also needs the soul! He also needs to cultivate and develop his feelings, will, faith, communication, code of conduct and so on. This is actually not hard to understand. We do not often say that teachers are engineers of the human soul? So to be sure, education is a project that shapes the soul of man. However, in practical work, many educators and parents often make mistakes on this point. Apart from caring about their children’s academic performance, they do not know that they should care about something else. As a result, children except