The Educational Meaning And Cultivation Of Sympathy

The education of instrumental rationality and utilitarianization has caused alienation in the spiritual world of today's individual,which has intensified the competition of education and cultivated the indifference,numbness and narrowness of the individual's mind.As an important way to treat others and understand their own emotions,attitudes and abilities,sympathy has important value and significance for social life,sound mind and education.Sympathy reflects a person's comprehensive ability,including understanding,tolerance,listening and other rich connotations.Sympathy can soften the ice of society and narrow the distance between people.It helps to alleviate many social contradictions and infuse them with warmth.It has an irreplaceable role in education.The loss of contemporary sympathy is manifested as follows:the first is the forgottenness of sympathy,and the second is the utilitarian and intellectualization of sympathy.To understand the meaning of sympathy throughly,sympathy is the emotion which uses one's imagination to stand on other' s side.It is also the ability to take beneficial behaviors.That is to say,this is a capability to put oneself in other' s situation,and then generate emotional reflections similar to the parties which help to obtain two-way communication emotionally or spiritually and to take beneficial behaviors spontaneously.It is different from what we often say "pity," "empathy," or "common feeling." Sympathy is a broader imagination of the world of life that allows us to examine the world,ourselves and others in a larger field of vision.The characteristics of sympathy are:initiative,universality,orientation and inclusiveness.Sympathy has these spiritual qualities:benevolence;bravery;temperance;justice.Sympathy is an educational standpoint that educators should have.It has important educational value and is an ideal education type.In daily life,sympathy is mainly influenced by the individual's cognition,feeling,imagination,and ability to act.Among them,the influence of imagination is most prominent.Based on this,in order to cultivate students' sympathy and make them learn to feel sympathy,it is very important to cultivate students' imagination.Learning sympathy through imagination,creating situations,literary narratives,and role-playing are all important ways and means.