What is the ultimate goal of education?

The first goal of education should be to make students become people who love life and are also kind-hearted people. The real goal of intellectual education should be to enable students to grow their intelligence healthily and enable them to enjoy the joy of intellectual life. The education of the soul can be divided into aesthetic education and moral education. The goal of aesthetic education is to create a rich soul, and the goal of moral education is to create a noble soul. In short, the goal of education should be to cultivate healthy and kind lives; lively and intelligent minds; and rich and noble souls. 01 Life Education: Realizing the Value of Life Life education includes sports and aims at a healthy body. However, if a person is only physically healthy but does not know how to love, respect and enjoy life, what is the meaning of health? Therefore, I advocate expanding sports into life education. The goal of life education is to cultivate respect for life. What does it mean to respect life? I think, first, we must cherish our own life. Nowadays, suicides of middle school students, college students, and graduate students frequently occur in schools. Of course, there are also reasons for this among the students themselves, who take life too lightly and end their own lives when they can\’t think about it. Respecting life also includes enjoying life. In a sense, hedonism is true. When I was in college, college students were not allowed to fall in love. Nowadays, college students are very free in this regard, but too much freedom also has disadvantages. You may indulge in flowers before the moon and under the moon. I am not against carpe diem, the key is what kind of music you do. In addition, the most important thing to respect your own life is to be responsible for your own life and spend your life meaningfully. The first goal of education should be to make students become people who love life and are also kind-hearted people. How to carry out life education still needs to be carefully studied. The basic content should be to guide students to be kind to their own lives, and from this to others, to be kind to all lives. 02 Intellectual Education: Realizing the Value of the Mind There is currently a narrow understanding of intellectual education, which is to understand it only as the infusion of knowledge, and even boil it down to test scores and professional skills. Doing so is simply treating your precious mind as a container, a tool. The real goal of intellectual education should be to enable students to grow their intelligence healthily and enable them to enjoy the joy of intellectual life. Encourage children\’s curiosity. Among people\’s intellectual qualities, the most important quality is curiosity. Curiosity is innate and appears in everyone at a certain stage of intellectual growth. Adults generally have three attitudes towards children\’s questions: one is to ignore it, one is to push back, and the other is to give the child a simple answer thinking they are smart. These methods are very crude. In fact, many questions have no answers. The best way to deal with children\’s questions is to encourage them to continue thinking. Curiosity has two enemies. One is habit. As we grow older, we take some things for granted and think we understand them. In fact, they are just numb! The second is utilitarianism. Many people ask why China cannot produce world-class masters. I think the fundamental reason is that we are too practical, which is a major weakness of our traditional culture. How should parents educate their children? A complete set of 10 volumes of children\’s education mobi+epub+azw3 to cultivate children\’s independent thinking ability and intellectual quality.Another element is the ability to think independently. In my opinion, all education is ultimately self-education, and all learning is ultimately self-study. The ability to learn independently is a lifelong asset that can be used throughout your life. 03 Soul Education: Realizing the Value of the Soul Applying Plato’s classification of knowledge, emotion, and intention, it can be said that the soul is emotion and intention. Emotions are aesthetic in nature, and will is moral in nature. Correspondingly, the education of the soul can be divided into aesthetic education and moral education. The goal of aesthetic education is to create a rich soul, and the goal of moral education is to create a noble soul. Aesthetic education does not equal talent. When it comes to aesthetic education, many parents seem to attach great importance to their children\’s art education. They enroll their children in various classes and learn various skills, but their starting point is extremely utilitarian. Art is the freest and least utilitarian spiritual activity. If it is mixed with utilitarian considerations, it is not art. Aesthetic education is by no means limited to learning some skills in playing, playing, singing or painting. Any activity that can cultivate one\’s temperament and enrich one\’s soul is aesthetic education. Spend more time alone and read more. So, how can we enrich our soul? I would like to make two general suggestions. One is to develop the habit of living an inner life. Communication is a kind of ability, but being alone is a more important ability. People should leave some time for themselves, calm down, think about life\’s problems, their own living conditions, and the people and things they have experienced. If you don\’t like yourself and feel uncomfortable being with yourself, such a person must have no meaning. When he goes to other people\’s places, he is just an annoyance to others. Another tip is to read a book. You can\’t just read professional books, but also read some \”useless books\” as Russell said. When you read philosophical and humanistic classics since ancient Greece, you will find that it is a great enjoyment. If you have not read it, you will not know how much loss you have suffered. Moral education is basically a noble soul. Finally, we talk about moral education. I think there has always been a narrow understanding of moral education, which only regards it as the inculcation of some norms, such as collectivism, patriotism, honesty and discipline. From the perspective of human nature, morality has two levels. One is the social level of human beings, which is a means of maintaining social order. The other is the spiritual level of human beings, the pursuit of the soul. Both levels are indispensable, but the spiritual level is more fundamental. When we carry out moral education, we should start from the fundamentals, making people aware of the nobility of the human soul and reflecting this nobility in their actions. What is the nobility of the soul? It means having the dignity of being a human being, having principles of being a human being, and not doing anything that blasphemes the divinity of a person under any circumstances. A person who has no taboos and resorts to any means to satisfy material desires can only show that the divinity in him has been wiped out and only the animal nature is left, and he is no longer a human being. Intellectual education is limited to knowledge, aesthetic education is limited to skills, and moral education is limited to norms. The goal of education should be to cultivate healthy and kind lives; lively and intelligent minds; rich and noble souls. If so, our education will be truly successful.