教育的意义探寻

Seeking the Meaning of Education

教育的社会、历史、文化特性 ,决定了人们对教育的认识必然具有理解性质。在理解中 ,或者说通过理解 ,人们便获得了教育的意义。教育的意义就是“教育是什么”的问题。这个问题的答案在日常语言世界中 ,在教育理论世界中。从有关教育的语词和教育俗语中 ,我们能透视出鲜活的中国文化背景下人们关于教育的社会性理解和认识 ;从教育理论关于教育的把握中 ,我们可以获得人类创造的教育理性。日常语言世界的教育意义是教育历史的积淀 ,它继承历史 ,说明现实 ,现实证明了它的实际 ,它又证明了现实的合理。理论世界的教育意义 ,在理性的道路上也继承了历史 ,但对现实它隐含着批判 ,更大的志趣在于引导教育现实放下包袱 ,走向未来。我们若想获得一个关于教育的全面的理解 ,就必须在日常语言世界和教育理论世界之间建造桥梁 ,沟通常识和理论 ,链接历史、现实和未来 ,把知性逻辑和理性逻辑辩证统一起来。

Cognition on education bears inevitably the nature of comprehensibility. This has been determined by social, historical and cultural characteristics in education. During or by the process of comprehension, the meaning of education is acquired. The meaning of education is the question of 'What is education?' whose answer can be found in the circle of everyday language, and in the circle of educational theories. From the words and jargons relating to education, we can perceive peoples understanding and cognition on the sociality of education against the lively Chinese cultural background; while from educational theories on educational policies, we may perceive the sense of education, created by human beings. The educational meaning of everyday language circle is the deposit from the history of education, which is a succession of history and an illustration of the reality, which proves its practicality, which in turn proves the reasonability of reality. The educational meaning of theoretical circle lies in the fact that history is also succeeded by way of rationality, which involves criticism against reality, and whose greater inclination is to lead the educational reality towards future by dropping its burdens. To get an over-all comprehension on education we must build a bridge between the circle of everyday language and that of educational theories, to enable communication between general knowledge and theories, to build a chain linking history, reality and future, and to unite sensible logic with rational logic.