成“材”还是成“人”——从唯材教育向唯人教育的转型

To be a Useful Being or to be a Human Being ——The Transformation from Material Education to Human Education

教育归根到底是把人培养成“材”还是培养成“人”?这是教育的一个核心问题。仅仅成“材”,意味着成为单纯的客体和手段 ,这种教育可称为唯材教育。成“人”,意味着成为主体和客体、目的和手段相统一的整体 ,这种教育可称为唯人教育。与当前我国社会从传统向现代转型相适应 ,我们的教育也应从唯材教育向唯人教育转型。

It is a key problem of education that the ultimate aim of education is to train a person to be a useful being or to be a human being.Only to be a useful being means to be a pure object or mean while to be a human being means to be a unity of subject and object,end and mean.The former is material education and the latter is human education.Today's Chinese education must be transformed from material education to human education to keep abreast with Chinese social transformation from traditional society to modern society.