Russell's Family Education Thought And Its Contemporary Valu

Family education is not only the alliance of school education,but also a vital part of social education.Because of the subject’s pluralism,the process’ s complexity,and the uncertainty of the result,the practice of family education becomes difficult.Meanwhile,this also results in family education encounters various practical problems in contemporary society.With the enactment of the Family Education Promotion Law,the concept of family,school and community cooperation in educating people has been popularized,and family education has ushered in a new opportunity for reform and development.Bertrand Russell was a great mathematician,philosopher,ethicist and educational theorist of the 20 th century.Family education is an important part of its ideological system.In Russell’s educational thought,the idea of freedom runs through it,which is also the theoretical foundation of his view on children and family education.Russell’s family education thought with its profound insight and practical insight and constantly stimulate people’s boundless speculative imagination.Therefore,it is of great theoretical value and practical significance to study Russell’s family education thought systematically.By comprehensive use of literature review and comparative research,this paper systematically summarizes and explains Russell’s ideological system of family education,including the purpose,content and method of children’s education,as well as parents’ learning and education,on the premise of systematically combing and objective analysis of Russell’s growth experience,the social background and theoretical basis of Russell’s family education.Russell’s family education thought presents us with a vivid education blueprint of "happy and good life",which mainly includes: taking good life as the purpose of family education;The content of family education is combining morality and wisdom;The methods of family education include attaching importance to early education,emphasizing love and respect,advocating freedom and restriction,and paying attention to reward and punishment.Beside,the problems of parents’ learning and education in family education are also discussed.There are numerous realistic problems in family education.Reflecting on Russell’s ideology of family education,we can find some enlightenment from it.The thoughts of Russell’s family education,with its educational concepts of free development,democracy and humanism as the core,and its family education contents of both morality and wisdom,effectively using freedom and discipline,combining reward and punishment,and attaching importance to parents’ study and education,are providing an essential era value for promoting the development of family education in modern China.