教育的希望:科学人文主义教育

Hope of Education: the Education for Scientific Humanism

现代人在获得了物质、思考的极大自由的同时 ,感到了与自然、社会和信仰的隔离 ,感到了价值、文化和意义的危机 ;他渴望着和平、安宁和真正的人道 ,要求加强与提升精神生活。唯理式与机械式的科技社会导致人的价值的沦落和生活内在意义的丧失 ,以及教育过度地服务于实用和功利是造成现代人困惑的两个主要原因。人类的理想追求和社会发展的要求都呼唤着新的教育 :变人为的教育为为人的教育。祈望真正人道的教育、重塑人的价值、重塑人的信心、谋求新的精神境界 ,已成为现代人越来越普遍的心态。从一定意义上讲 ,科学人文主义教育正是人们的希望所在 ,也是新教育的希望所在。

While modern people gain a wealth of materials and great freedom to think, they feel isolated from the nature, the society and the belief as well as the crisis of the value, the culture and the significance. They are thirsty for the peace, the quietness and the genuine humanity so that they ask for the improvement of spiritual life. The mechanic-style technological society leads to the fall of human value and the loss of inherent-life significance as well as the education with over-serving for pragmatism and utilitarianism, which are major reasons for making modern people puzzled. Therefore the human ideal pursuit and the requirement of social development call for a new education: to change from the man-made education into an education for human beings. It is becoming a more and more popular desire for modern people to receive a genuine humanistic education, to regain the value of human & self-confidence as well as to pursue a fresh spiritual realm. In a sense, it is the education for scientific humanism that people hope for and that brings a hope to create a new education.