论亚里士多德的自然教育思想

Aristotle’s Thoughts of Natural Education

亚里士多德从灵魂学说出发,根据人的身心发展的特征,首次提出并论述了教育效法自然的原理。他把这一原理运用到教育的年龄分期理论和人的身心和谐发展的教育理论之中,不仅推动了希腊教育思想的发展并使之达到了顶峰,奠定了近代西方自然主义教育思想的理论基础和基本观念,而且也为西方教育思想的发展作出了重要贡献,具有重要的现实意义。

Aristotle proposed for the first time and demonstrated the principle of natural education in line with the laws of the human psychological development on basis of the soul theory. It is significant for he applied this principle to the stage classification of the educational ages and the harmonious development of the body and soul. This laid a theoretical foundation for the western naturalism and contributed a lot for the western education thoughts.