审美教育与人格建树——《写给未来的你》审美人生观探析

Aesthetic Education and Personality Building——An Analysis of the Aesthetic Outlook on Life in To the Future You

2017年冬季,余光中先生逝世。在缅怀余先生的活动中,除了那首道不完的经典《乡愁》外,《写给未来的你》热度最高。可随后不久,就有人提出这篇文章的作者并非余光中先生,而是女作家张梅。其实,《写给未来的你》之所以广为流传,并非因为它的作者是或者不是余光中,而是因为文章本身体现出来的思想内涵与意蕴。透过这篇文章,可以看到作者的审美教育观,而作品中所体现出来的美育思想和人格建树与中国古代教育家孔子的育人观念不谋而合。因此,探析《写给未来的你》,可以结合孔子的"诗乐统一"思想和"文质彬彬"学说,分析其为现代教育提供了哪些好的思路和方法,也可以让人们反观现代教育中的缺失与不足。

Mr. Yu Guangzhong passed away in winter, 2017. In all the memorial activities for Mr. Yu To the Future You won the greatest popularity apart from the endless classic Homesickness, Soon afterwards, however, it was suggested that this article was not written by Mr. Yu Guangzhong, but by Zhang Mei, a female writer. In effect, the reason why To the Future You is so widespread does not lie in whether its author is Yu Guangzhong or not, but its ideological connotation and implication itself. Through this article, the author's aesthetic education view is seen, and the aesthetic education thought and personality building reflected coincide with Confucius's educational concept, an ancient Chinese educator. Thus the exploration and analysis of To the Future You can be coupled with Confucius's thought of “integrity of poetry and music” and the theory of “well-bred”. To probe into what good ideas and methods it provides for modern education will also enable us to reflect on the defects and shortcomings of modern education.