徽商子嗣家国教育的历史困境与当代启示

The Historical Dilemma and Contemporary Enlightenment of Patriotic Education for Huizhou Merchants’ children

徽州商人历来重视子嗣教育,特别是家国情怀的培育,希冀“学而优则仕”,偏爱“达济天下”。在封闭的封建统治场域下,徽商子嗣家国教育的美好性与空想性形影不离,造就了难以逾越的历史困境。入仕失落、家国苦痛、化人失败和修身难善是其显著特征。当下,历史困境已然消弭,但徽州商人子嗣教育依然具有巨大的当代启示。社会主义的家国教育既要理直气壮、守正创新,又要坚定从容、求真务实。

Huizhou merchants have always attached importance to the education of their children, especially the cultivation of patriotic feelings, hoping to “become an official when learning well”, preferring to “help the world when developed”. Under the closed feudal ruling field, the beauty and fantasy of the education of Huizhou merchants’ children are inseparable, creating an insurmountable historical dilemma. It is characterized by the loss of official position, the patriotic pain, the failure of humanization and the difficulty of self-cultivation. At present, the historical dilemma has been eliminated, but the education of Huizhou merchants’ children still has great contemporary enlightenment. The patriotic education of socialism should not only be confident, upright and innovative, but also firm, confident, realistic and pragmatic.