试论颜元的教育价值思想及其现实意义

A tentative study of Yan Yuan' s concept of educational values

颜元生活在商品经济萌芽的明末清初,他一反传统儒学"重义轻利"的思想而提出既重义又重利的思想。针对宋明理学教育的空虚无物,他提出了"实学"的教育思想,从而他的教育也突出表现出工具性价值取向。颜元的教育价值思想比较全面,不但重视教育的理性价值,而且更重视教育的工具价值。对颜元教育价值取向进行分析,具有一定的现实意义。

Yan Yuan lives in the changing time from Ming to Qing Dynasty, when the commodity e-conomy starts to emerge. While he is against the Confucian classic education of attending to loyalty more than to benefit, he favors the real learning or pragmatic education of putting equal attachment to both. All this shows his concept of educational values of tools, which is the realistic significance of his pragmatism -oriented education.