On Education And Life Boundary

Life boundary is the whole reflection of human's spiritual existence way and existence condition. It manifests the degree that human understands to the universe and life, also symbolizes human's mental culture and the ideological awareness level. Life boundary has an important influence to human's whole life condition and the existence way, it involves to every question of life, such as the"free"of mind, the"significance"and"value approval"of life,"happiness", and so on. Education has no alternative choice but to pay attention to these basic questions of life if it is"humanist". Human's life is the unity of material life and spiritual life. Education should be established above the foundation of complete life, paying attention not only to human's material life, but also to human's spiritual life. Material life is foundation and premise; spiritual life is the prescriptive essence of human. Leaded by rationalism and utilitarianism, present education pursues knowledge, technology and practical skill one-sidedly, pursues the proportion of students entering schools of higher school and the employment rate one-sidedly, while takes to student's inner world and morality insufficiently. Not mention guiding student to pursue the significance and the value of life. Such education is imperfect, so it naturally does not favor raising perfect human nature and life. Therefore, stressing the question of life boundary in education, discussing the relation between education and life boundary, paying attention to the function of education in promoting life boundary, both conforms to the candid implication of respecting human nature in education, and tallies to the time characteristic of the current education that pays attention to Humanism and human's complete life.Nowadays, academic circle such as philosophy and esthetics domains have a widely discussion on the question of boundary and life boundary, and have already yielded quite plentiful fundamental research result. However, such research seems...