On The Spiritual Growth Of Children

Children's education should be based on knowing them, and we get to know them instinctively through their daily life, and profoundly through scientific research and philosophic thought, which enable us go deep into the origin of life and tracing the evolution of life.The genotype which individual gets by heredity, and which is the crystallization of the history of phylogeny, is the biology precondition for the development of its life. According to the findings of developmental biology, the structural gene which modulates human development pattern is highly conservative, which enables individual retains their idioplasmic feature relatively stable. Meanwhile, genome is flexible in its signal modulation mechanism, which can control the expression of gene by physiological changes caused by behavior, and realize phenotype changes suitable to behavior changes. Thus, as modulation mechanism between the organism and surroundings, behavior becomes the motivity of evolution, which is also the groundwork for the understanding of spiritual freedom.The basic biological knowledge is the scientific basis to understand the development of child's mind, which has its inherent potential and physical steps, and has different characteristics from adults'. Because of the logic inevitability of evolution mechanism, the development of child's mind is realized by educating in daily life, and by utilizing gifted instinct to participate actively in various social lives.Mental activity, as the high-level form of self-organization mechanism of life, originates from the self-organization intention of life, such as self-protection and self-improvement, and the essence of the mind is freedom. The development of child's mind comes from the actualizing of instinct, which is the implicit logic of the freedom of child's mind. Children take advantage of the instinctive freedom logic, enter into the sociocultrual structure and obtain more freedom, which is the evolving process of freedom. Children's activity is not only the motivity of their spiritual development, but also carries the meaning of life. Children's free utilization of the natural power of life in their activity reflects the dignity and right of life; and the power of self-experience and self-mastery is the essence of their happiness and spiritual health.The related cognition on the development of child's mind above is the theoretical basis of children education problem. Facing the present education problems, we should consider the enlightenment of the development of child's mind on education. In the first place, creating active pedagogical atmosphere with educational love is crucial for child educating. Secondly, the development of child's mind is a self-construction process of intentionality; accordingly, the situation construction in education is based on the continuity of children's life. The corresponding core revelation is combining education with child's life, making the mutual improvement between children and environmental factors by appropriate behavior manner, and shaping their strong self-concept and positive existence manner in the process of exerting the natural power of life. Children's spiritual freedom is the premise and kernel value of child education.