对新形势下教育的再审视——兼谈陶行知教育思想的启示

“今天的教育就是今天的经济”是教育对社会经济发展的作用在新形势下的新发展和新表现。当前,既要以“今天的教育就是明天的经济”的思想优先发展教育,以促进我国社会经济的可持续发展,更要以“今天的教育就是今天的经济”的思想抓好教育,特别是农村的教育,以促进当前农村教育和经济问题的解决,推进社会主义新农村建设。陶行知是我国最早研究、实践并献身农民教育的人民教育家,他终生献身教育的动力——爱祖国、爱人民、爱教育、爱科学、爱儿童的“爱满天下”的高尚情感和由此产生的积极的人生态度和正确的价值观,是非常值得我们学习和借鉴的。

Review on Education in the New Situation

The idea that education today is the economy today is the development and new representation of the function of education to the development of social economy in the new situation. We should give priority to the development of education so as to promote the sustainable development of China＇s social economy with the idea that education today is the economy tomorrrow and, at the same time, we should do a good job in education, especially in the countryside, so as to promote the solution of the problems of education and economy in the countryside and the construction of the new socialist countryside with the idea that education today is the economy today. Tao Xingzhi was a people＇s educationist who took a lead in the researh and practice of peasant education and dedicated himself to it. His motive force of giving his whole life to education the noble spirit of ＂love of the whole world＂and his active life attitude and the correct outlook of values resulting from it, well deserve our learning and drawing lessons from.