Rousseau’s "Negative Education" Ideology And Its Current Educational Value

As basic education, children’s education plays a critical role in a person’s life.But the children’s education over education, early education and other issues, topromote the "people-oriented" philosophy of education with the current deviationfrom the social aspects of concern. Rousseau " Negative Education "theory as an-important component of the educational thought of Rousseau natural right to correctthe current problems in the education of children do not benefit.Thinking of Rousseau "Negative Education", the Rousseau Education masterpiece"E-mile Children" in the "Negative Education" are summarized, and explore thenegative educational thought embodied in the educational process, and the collationand analysis, explore the contemporary value and practical significance of thiseducational thought. In this paper, literature, historical research and other researchmethods.Increasingly strengthen the technical rationality and instrumental rationality ofthe social reality of today’s teaching activities deep into the position of the"dehumanization". The characterization of "positive" education is increasinglyprominent in the modern educational practice mainly in five areas: the teachingobjectives and the content is too difficult, teaching time is too long, starting too early,too stringent and teaching process of death. The phenomenon is not accidental,in-depth exploration of the underlying causes of these phenomena, mainly attributedto the following five areas: the instrumental rationality dominated the social ontologyof strong prosperous, the Statute of the traditional ideas and alienation, the bias ofview of children, the discipline of institutionalized education.Papers to Rousseau’s goodness of nature with the view of religion as a theoreticalbasis, from the principles of education, educational content and the three aspects ofthe educational process to explore Rousseau’s "Negative Education" thinking.Rousseau believes that the various organs of the human body is used to obtain theknowledge and tools, but need to make before you use them to acquire knowledge ofvarious organs tend to improve, but this kind of education is called "NegativeEducation".Rousseau ’s "Negative Education" a change in children has not yet reached acertain age before the training, the training of children to teach them do notunderstand the adult so-called knowledge not only to gain time to do these adultsthink the children will useful things, but take the time in vain to put the past way ofeducation. On the principle of education to promote temperance of freedom and freedom of restraint; concern the happiness and well-being in hardship. In thecontent of education, books, chanting against the blind study, the pursuit of trueknowledge; opposed to an empty text preaching, the pursuit of useful knowledge;against haste makes waste education and the pursuit of personalized knowledge. Inthe process of education, intellectual development and physical and mentaldevelopment of children’s unity; learning content and level of understanding ofchildren fit; inducing children’s intrinsic motivation to abandon the knowledge toinstill.Children prematurely into the orbit of education, advanced education,over-educated popular now, children were driven to accelerate growth. In this case,Rousseau’s "Negative Education" ideological guidance of the current children’seducation and teaching activities is necessary. The children’s education, from thecultivation of happiness" natural person" out of "knowledge" of errors; Comply withthe order of the development of children, away from the leaping education; Stimulateinterest and abandon the indoctrination of the education; Pursuit of freedom, to followthe natural education of the Statute; To nature as a teacher, to bid farewell to the"super children " education for drilling; Dilute the competition, the return to educationin the world of living; Great importance to the human spirit, and cultivate the wholepersonality of the seven areas of education and other suggestions. The proposal for therelated subject of the education administrative departments, schools, teachers, parentsprovide a theoretical basis and practical reference, and directly applied to children’seducation and education reform, to correct the drawbacks in the education of children,to establish a correct view of children have some practical significance.