教育如何面对死亡——由汶川地震而思

How Education Faces the Death——Considering by the Wenchuan Earthquake

死亡是生命的终结,是每个人都不可回避的时刻,有生必有死。在现实生活中,对死亡所产生的种种认知状态,反映了对死亡模糊的理解,从而造成人们要么漠视生命,要么逃避死亡,要么向往死亡。面对现实,教育要有直面死亡的勇气。文章从"培育哲学思维、塑造良善生活、回归共同体"三个纬度来阐释教育的使命,在树立合理死亡观的基础上,引导人们正视死亡,珍爱生命,创造美好的生活。

Death is the end of human life, which is the moment that all of us can＇t avoid, life relates to death. In real life, people form the various cognitive state for the death, reflecting the people＇s fuzzy awareness for the death, resulting in people either ignoring the life, escaping from the death, or yearning for the death. Facing the reality, education should have the courage to face the death. This article explains the educational mission from three latitudes of ＂fostering the philosophy thinking, figuring the perfect life, returning the community＂. On the basis of the reasonable concept of the death, this article leads people to face up to death, cherish life and create a better living.