美育──教育现代化的关键

Aesthetic Education-The Key to the Modernization of Education

改革开放以来，我们从国外学到不少科学的教学方法，但总的看来，仍未脱离灌输式的窠臼。其中有种种原因，但最主要的原因是忽视了美育在现代教育中的重要作用，但美育又不能混同于一般的艺术教育。真正的美育是将美学原则渗透于各科教学后形成的教育。这样的教育已不再是以传授知识为主的灌输式教育，也不是鼓励学生自由发展的园丁式教育，而是一种兼顾知识和发展，旨在提高学生整体素质的融合式教育。

esthetic education is the key to themodernization of education. However,unlike what mostpeople think,aesthetic education is not the same as general education of art. True aesthetic educa-tion is to make aesthetic principles permeate through the teaching of all subjects. As a result,edu-cation is neither the job of inculcating knowledge into the students’ brain,nor the“gardener’sway of education”that encourages the students to develop themselves at will. Rather,it is a merg-ing way of teaching that stresses both the importance of knowledge and development,the purposeof which is to raise the general diathesis of the students.