先秦时期政教关系的文化透视

Cultural Perspective on the Relationship between Education and Politics before the Qin Dynasty

政教不分是古代中国社会的重要特征。本文从教育机构与政治机构、官与师、教育活动与政治需要等三个方面之间的关系探讨了先秦时期政教关系从“貌神一体”到“貌离神一”的历史演变过程 ,并进一步分析了政教不分的文化原因 ,提出“天人合一”、“人性善”等观念和隐喻式思维方式是导致古代中国政教不分的文化根源。

One of the important characteristics of Chinese ancient society is that the education and politics could not be separated from each other. Based on the analysis of the relation between educational organization and government organization, officials and teachers, educational actions and political needs before the Qin Dynasty, this paper studies the historical evolution of the relationship between education and politics , holds that it was a process from an integral whole of the externals and spirit to separation in form and unity in essence. Then the author researches into the cultural causes of education and politics as a whole, brings forward that some ideas, as'nature and man as a whole','goodness of human nature', and the metaphorical way of thinking are the cultural reasons which led to the close relationship of education to politics in Chinese ancient society.