On "Subiect" Of Education

According to the research in education subject and the problems when applied in educational practices, the dissertation first surveyed the destiny of subject in educational practices, then disclosed the limitations of the Education Subject Hypothesis, and finally put forward the solutions.The Education Subject Hypothesis was a dominating theory in educational practices. In educational practice, life was regarded as subject and knowledge to be learned as object. The education of knowledge was questing for certainty, which made the certainty knowledge object of the education. Therefore, life as the subject was alienated, and existing life was enclosed and forgotten. The dilemma of life subject in educational practices was derived from the limitations of the research in subject in educational theories, as well as the all pervasiveness of the subjectivism in modern society. Subject philosophy was the basis of modernism, which, however, encountered many difficulties per se. Among them, two were fundamental, one was the subject itself was alienated, and the other was subject, as existing, was enclosed and forgotten.Therefore, the understanding of life in educational theories and practices should divert from epistemology to ontology. From the perspective of ontology, life was existing in time, freedom, possibility, transcend, and moving from self-being to self-making. Understanding life from ontology had three ways. First, the goal of education was for the existence of life. Human being, as the existing life had three kinds-categorized life, group life and individual life. Categorized life means existence of life, that is, education should transcend the knowledge; group life means that education should transcend the distinction between privileged students and under privileged students; individual group means education should be privileged and transcend space. Second, educational content foreground the uncertainty of knowledge, and deconstructed the object world formed by the certainty knowledge. Third, educational process emphasized the enlightenment of objects by knowledge.The above research could be used to explain the difficulties and heated problems in educational reform and further suggestions can be given based on it. Two conspicuous difficulties educational reform faces were the lesson burden of the students in primary schools and junior high schools, as well as the loss of creativity of those students. Traced to its source, all those problems were derived from the theory and practice of Education Subject Hypothesis. As a result, the fundamental way to solve those problems was to transcend the theory and practice of Education Subject Hypothesis, and research from the perspective of ontology.