Life Education Soaked Into Teaching Ancient Poetry

Life is most precious in the world. Especially is the life of the younger generation.The life of the younger generation which is like the rising sun and flowers in bud will show tomorrow's hope and the magnificence in the future. It is a sign of the social progress and the flourishing of a nation to attach the youth's life quality, promote the youth's life intensity, and optimize the youth's life consciousness. In fact there are natural relations between ancient poetry culture and human beings'vital and spiritual activities. The youth study massive classical works in language classes in order to approach ancient sages and affect their own spirits with the sages'healthy mind. Therefore, humanism and life consciousness of ancient poetry are important education resources. The purpose of life education is to let human beings know life significance and realize life value. Another purpose is to let students understand how to live and how to grow up. Its final purpose is how to optimize life and how to beautify life so as to make the youth become true humans.But in the realistic society, lots of young people ignore life. They neither have emotion nor be concerned about life;thus it makes global education pay more and more attention to young people's life education.This article attempts to discuss the life education on young people from the following aspects which include the connotation of life education and the significance of life education seeping through teaching ancient poetry—the important materials for life education and the ways of life education seeping through teaching ancient poetry.The connotation of life education and the significance of life education seeping through teaching ancient poetry:Je·Downer·Hua Teshi who was born in America proposed life education first. Many scholars and experts in our country have different definitions about life education, but identical in essence. Life education is about human being's education which leads students to know the value human beings'life, understand the truth significance of life and live a true splendid life. The main contents of life education contain not only the education about how to preserve life and develop life but also the death education.The current situation is that the youth ignore life. There are lots of facts to prove it, such as cruelly injuring wildlife, brutally slaughtering other people's lives and giving up their lives easily when they meet with setbacks. Teachers must help students set up correct outlooks on life during teaching ancient poetry.Ancient poetry in textbooks of middle school is important materials for life education: The ancient poetry in the textbooks of middle schools has provided giant resources for life education. Most works are full of sighs of time and short life to educate students to treasure the life constitution material—time.Ancient poetry in the textbooks of middle schools involves many people who defeated many setbacks and tribulation. They sought unremittingly on their struggling way, which educates students to value their own lives and face adverse circumstances directly.Much ancient poetry educates students to cultivate their mind and develop their characters, to hold an optimistic attitude to life value and life significance, to live a valuable life, to love our own country, to worry patriotically the people, to understand morality and justice, to have determination, to perform meritorious deeds, to strive, and to realize their ambitions.Many works educate students not only to cherish and value their lives but also to respect and love others'lives. Respecting others'life not only includes the life between human beings and human beings, but also that between human beings and nature. The works call on students to love nature, to revere nature, to protect nature and to get on well with nature.The ways of soaking life education into teaching ancient poetry: to soak life education into teaching ancient poetry, teachers must follow the teaching principles: first, take experience as the central teaching principle;Secondly, accord with students'cognition psychology characters;Thirdly, teachers must show the modern educational idea which takes humanism as the central and must strengthen reading ancient poetry and talking with ancient poetry. Teachers must judge people and time clearly, converse with authors and connect with reality. At the same time, teachers must change teaching ideas and strengthen life education;meanwhile, teachers must have higher spiritual pursues to set an example to students.Conclusion: Education should pay much more attention to students'life;especially, language teachers should have a lofty sense of mission and realize their own mission better, Because they have the heavy responsibility to found the energetic background for the next generation. Language teachers should begin with educational and teaching practice to educate students to know life, to revere life and to love life. And language teachers should educate students to appreciate their own lives, others'lives and all lives in nature. Teachers should use their own personality charm as pilot lights, use their own knowledge and experience to open a blue sky for students, let all students be able to have healthy growth and enable students manifest the superiority of their life values.