What are the essentials of educational methods advocated by pre Qin Taoists?

In fact, this advocated education is vividly reflected in the Tao Te Ching.

The Taoist idea of education is to teach without words.

1. Taoism's educational proposition is self-evident, and Taoism has a great influence on educational thought, such as the Lao Zhuang School, the Huang Lao School, and so on. Here "Lao" refers to Laozi, and "Zhuang" is Zhuangzi. The 5,000-word biography of "Lao Tzu" was written in the late Spring and Autumn Period and the early Warring States period, preserving Lao Tzu's thoughts.

2. The essence of Taoist dialectics is to transcend the polar opposition of things and see the interdependence and mutual transformation in them. All forms of simplicity and rudeness in the process of education, oppression of people with force, and all forms of self-serving and forcible indoctrination can easily lead to tension in the relationship between teachers and students, and even the failure of educational activities.

3. Naturalism with "Tao" as the core. Lao Tzu said: "Man is the law of the earth, the earth is the law of the sky, the heaven is the law, and the Tao is the nature."

Lao Tzu regarded the Tao as the highest category of entities. It becomes the root of all things. As the general law that human social life must follow.

4. In Lao Tzu's view, "Tao, Xuanzhi and Xuan, it cannot be Tao, cannot be observed, cannot be recognized, and cannot be separated", can only be felt and understood in a natural way. For he also said: "I have done nothing, but the people have become self-conscious; I am so quiet, and the people are upright; I have nothing to do, and the people are rich; I have no desire, but the people are simple.

Therefore, the "Tao" that Lao Tzu refers to is "no action, no matter, no desire." ”

5. In Lao Tzu's mind, the person who pursues the "Tao" is "to see plain and simple, and to think less". That is, it is believed that the ideal state of human beings should be the simple state of ignorance and desirelessness of primitive infants. Such a person of the "Tao" is selfless and unblemished.

In a more far-reaching sense, this educational concept has the rich educational significance of "respecting the law, teaching by example, and being student-oriented".

Answer]: C Taoists believe that the best education is to "return" to the natural nature of human beings, and everything is natural.

The pre-Qin Taoist school of Laozhuang was more influential in terms of educational thought, and the representative figures were Laozi and Zhuangzi. Their doctrine reflected the pessimistic and disappointed minds of the declining slave-owning class. The pre-Qin Taoist school of Laozhuang was more influential in terms of educational thought, and the representative figures were Laozi and Zhuangzi.

One. The main arguments in the book "Lao Tzu" about the idea of education are:

Theory of cultural degeneration: Lao Tzu believes that the culture created by human beings, including morality, laws and regulations, and all manifestations of wisdom, is contrary to the "Tao", and the emergence and development of culture is a sign of the degeneration of human society.

The theory of "restoration" of human nature: Lao Tzu deduced from the nihilism of the Tao that human nature is "ignorant and desireless", simple and selfless, and believes that from "ignorance and desire" to knowledge and desire, that is, from "selfless" to selfishness, it is a betrayal of human nature, and education has accelerated the trend of this betrayal.

Theory of "Absolute Sainthood and Abandonment of Wisdom": Lao Tzu believes that the way for human nature to "return to the Holy and abandon wisdom" is to "abandon the Holy and Abandon Wisdom", that is, to destroy culture and cancel education.

Two. Zhuangzi inherited Lao Tzu's idea of "Taoism and Nature", denied the value of culture and education, and also said that "the saint abandons wisdom, and the great thief stops" ("Zhuangzi · 箧). What runs through the cultural and educational ideas of the Lao Zhuang school is nihilism and obscurantism, and it is a negative and decadent outlook on life.

Three. The ideas of the Huang Lao School of Taoism. It inherited the doctrine of Lao Tzu, and at the same time absorbed the ideas of Confucianism, law, and name. What they derive from "inaction" and "selflessness" is not to destroy culture, but to respect knowledge.