把苏格拉底的教诲带入当下:柏拉图对话的教育意蕴

Bring Socrates’ Teachings into the Present: The Educational Implications of Plato’s Dialogue

当下现实的教育主要向学生传授知识与技能,以使其获得外在于生命的生存能力。我们需要以培育心灵和爱智精神的教育来纠偏。对柏拉图对话的教育意蕴的探寻正是为此而做的具体尝试。苏格拉底终其一生在日常生活中进行对话性教育实践,以培育人们的爱智精神;柏拉图书写对话回忆苏格拉底的教诲;柏拉图的对话体写作避免了口头谈话的时空限制和惯常的书面写作的僵化问题,生动地再现了苏格拉底的教育精神。柏拉图的对话期待真正的读者,怀着生命热情在阅读中进行爱智精神的自我培育,真正地把苏格拉底的教诲带入当下。

The aim of modern education is to teach students knowledge and skills,then enable them to acquire survival ability which is outer of their lives.We need the education culturing soul and spirit of loving wisdom to remedy the defects of modern education.The seeking of educational implication in Plato’s dialogues is a specific attempt for this remedy.During all his life,Socrates practiced dialogue education in his daily life to culture other person’s spirit of loving wisdom.Plato wrote dialogues to recall Socrates’teachings.Plato’s dialogical writing avoids the time and space limitation of oral dialogue and the rigidity of general written writing,vividly reconstructs Socrates’educational spirit.Plato’s dialogues look forward to the real readers:they carry out the self-cultivation of the spirit of loving wisdom in reading with enthusiasm for life,and really bring Socrates’teachings into the present.