让教育像磁石——柏拉图美学思想的教育意蕴

Making Education like Magnet:The Educational Inspirations of Plato’s Aesthetics

柏拉图美学思想对如何使教育更具吸引力颇具启发意义。其对话录中的磁石隐喻,为教育事业展示了值得追求的美妙境界。美的理念是磁力之源,引导人走向身心和谐。从单一事物到多个事物,再到美的理念的阶梯,为达致美境提供了载体,启示教育者要按照美的阶梯搭建和优化课程,让不同发展阶段的人都能感受到课程与心灵的投合,沿着美的阶梯攀登与欣赏。让教育像磁石一样发挥吸引力,需要教育者向苏格拉底学习,传递磁力,让更多的学生加入到建构教育磁力场中来。

Plato's aesthetic thoughts enlighten on how to make education more attractive.The magneto metaphor in his dialogues shows a wonderful realm worth pursuing for education.The idea of beauty is the source of magnetism,which leads people to the harmony of body and mind,and stimulates their creativity.The ladder from one thing to many things to the idea of beauty also provides the carrier for achieving beauty,for all things on the ladder of beauty are magnetic and become magnets because they share the idea of beauty,which indicates that educators should build and optimize curriculum according to the ladder of beauty,so that people at different stages of development can experience the harmonious of courses and hearts and climb the ladder to appreciate beauty.To make education attractive like a magnet,educators need to transmit magnetic force like an iron ring,so that more students can join in the construction of educational magnetic field.