Teaching Life Education as a Compulsory Course
2025-06-06
Recently, the Xinhua Road Tunnel in Shanghai has become a "popular photo check-in spot" for internet celebrities. Although there are signs prohibiting pedestrians from entering the tunnel entrance, many young people still enter the tunnel at night to take photos. The dim lighting and constant traffic can easily lead to traffic accidents. It is reported that similar phenomena also occur in tunnels in many other places. In order to create the "cool feeling" in the movie, he actually disregarded his life safety. This approach is not advisable. Beautiful scenery is countless, but human life only comes once. If there is no life safety, how can there be a 'highlight moment' in front of the camera? Life education is a "compulsory course" that runs through a person's entire life, and children and adolescents especially need to learn this lesson well. Currently, some children and adolescents face "growing pains" such as a lack of safety awareness, insufficient survival ability, increased psychological problems, and lost life direction, most of which are related to the lack of life education. There are no two identical leaves or two identical lives in the world. Every life is a unique existence, and life is precious because of its uniqueness. Education work faces a complete life, and its mission is to cultivate, enrich, and develop human life. In this sense, the essence of education is life education. The focus of education is not on knowledge, but on life. If one pursues knowledge and grades unilaterally without paying attention to life, such education is undoubtedly incomplete. Therefore, educational work should not only focus on imparting knowledge and skills of "how to make a living", but also pay attention to questioning the meaning of life of "why is it born", so that every seed of life can grow freely. Life education is an education centered on life and lays the foundation for a happy life. It covers topics such as birth and death, safety and health, rights and obligations, values and meanings. Its core is to pay attention to life, respect life, cherish life, appreciate life, fear life, achieve life, and establish the concept of life first, health first, and endless life. Life education is not education for survival competition, but education for a happy life. Its goal is not only to teach people survival skills, but also to guide them to pursue a happy life, think about the meaning of life, and improve their quality of life. Human life includes natural life, social life, and spiritual life, representing the length, width, and height of life, respectively. The three aspects of human life are interconnected, mutually restrictive, and dialectically unified, together forming a complete life. Among them, natural life is the prerequisite for the existence of social and spiritual life. Without natural life, everything is a bubble. However, even the longest natural life is limited. Without social and spiritual life, natural life will also lose its meaning. Without the support of social life, humanity will become isolated islands from each other; Without the guidance of spiritual life, humanity is like a ship without navigation. Everyone is the master of their own life, and only by constantly expanding the dimensions of life can we achieve the ultimate goodness. Educator Tao Xingzhi said that life is education. Life is the 'stronghold' of life education. Life education cannot be separated from the small classroom on campus, let alone the big classroom of life. However, as the saying goes, 'A teacher is easy to obtain, but a teacher is difficult to find.' Teachers and parents share a common role as the 'life mentors' of their children. Life education is not an abstract concept, but a vivid and concrete practice. Only by living in the present can one appreciate the infinite beauty of life. A flower bud, a cicada chirping, contains the power of life; A footprint, a wrinkle, depicts the annual rings of life; A smile, a hand holding, conveying the love of life; A promise, a commitment, embodies the nobility of life. When a person can feel the freedom of life, experience the solemnity of life, and comprehend the meaning of life, it is the moment when life education blooms and bears fruit. Over 2500 years ago, Confucius and his disciples gathered around to express their aspirations. Once said, "Bathing in the Yi, dancing in the wind, singing and returning." In late spring, a group of people take a bath, blow the wind, sing loudly, and sing along the way. This scene made Confucius sigh and eagerly yearn for it. The classroom of life education is like the song of returning home in late spring, with infinite scenery! Looking ahead to the future, what should life education be like? We hope that as children grow up, one after another, they will have light in their eyes, love in their hearts, and wind under their feet, without confusion, worry, or fear. Everyone will be able to live with joy, value, and excitement, making their lives more brilliant, fragrant, happy, and complete. (New Society)
Edit:XieYing Responsible editor:ZhangYang
Source:people.cn
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