学会休闲:关照人性的教育

Learning to Relax: Education Caring for Humanity

忙碌、无聊和恐惧是现代人的三大病症,正在日益侵蚀着现代人的心灵世界。教育作为有关人性的实践活动,理应对现代人所面临的人性危机作出积极应答。为了生存的教育信条旨在培养生存的基本技能与知识,是被动接受社会需求的规训化教育,导致了教育的平庸化,而无力应答人性的危机。因此,现代人应该学会休闲。休闲作为人的存在方式,是教育的人性之根。在21世纪,学会休闲是比学会生存更为贴近人性、更为贴近教育本质的新信条,从而使教育的价值指向超越生存境界,而转向享有生存与完善人性的新境界,能够对现代人的人性危机作出积极应答。

Hurry, boredom and fear are the three major diseases of modern people, which are increasingly eroding their mental world. Education, a practical activity of humanity, has to make a positive response to modem people＇s mental crisis. However, the education aimed at survival is unable to answer the crisis of humanity because it only pays attention to basic surviving skills and knowledge, and passively accepts social needs, leading to a disciplined and mediocre education. Therefore, modern people should learn to relax. As the way of man＇s existence, leisure is the ed- ucational root of humanity. In the 21century, learning to relax is closer to humanity than learning to survive and is al- so the new belief closer to the nature of education, which makes the value of education go beyond the realm of sur- vival and turn to a new realm of perfect humanity, and thus is able to make a positive response to modern human cri-sis.