Education is to develop human potential?

Education is a process of \”teaching people to become human beings\”. The former \”person\” is an uneducated natural person, while the latter \”person\” becomes an educated person after receiving education. In other words, human education has two meanings: first, the object of education is human beings, so it must be based on human nature and human characteristics. Therefore, the starting point of education is the understanding of human nature; second, the purpose of education is to become People, therefore, education must end with \”good people\”, \”perfect people\” or \”whole people\”, and cultivate and create perfect people. In this way, children\’s nature already has the potential to become a good person, a perfect person or a whole person in the future, and this possibility is \”potential\”. Rather, potential is the possibility of “transformation” from one state into another. Potential includes three elements, one is the \”ability\” of transformation, the second is the \”tendency\” of transformation, and the third is the \”talent\” of transformation. The \”ability\” of transformation is a pre-existing ability that determines the possible form of an individual\’s future achievements; the \”tendency\” of transformation is a development tendency that guides individual behavior and development toward future achievements; and the \”talent\” of transformation is A behavioral talent that helps individuals choose the most favorable conditions and methods for achieving future achievements. Most people often have incorrect ideas and understandings of the concept of potential, which is the so-called \”myth of potential\”: the first myth is that human potential is fixed; the second myth is that various human potentials Potentials are in harmony with each other; the third myth is that all potentialities are valuable. If the above three are all misunderstandings of previous generations, then the correct understanding of the myths should be: (1) children’s potential is not static in the process of development and practice; (2) various potentials inherent in children’s nature It is not entirely conflict-free; (3) Not all potentials in children\’s nature are valuable goods. According to this, children\’s potential should be the possibility of achievement that changes with time and space, rather than the child\’s inner unchanging essence; the result after the potential is realized may be good or evil, so any obstacle becomes Obstacles to good results must be removed or prevented. Therefore, developing children\’s potential through education should be an effort to actively guide people toward good, rather than the natural unfolding and realization of children\’s nature. The purpose of education by British educator Whitehead PDF