Aesthetic Spirit Pursuit And The Change Of Learning Style

Man is the spirituality existence,and spirit pursuit is the mark of human's verifying their existence.As the natural,social and immaterial existence, human has three kinds of spirit: moral, scientific and aesthetic spirit. If scientific spirit represents the orderliness charater, and moral spirit the intention charater of man's labor, aesthetic spirit expresses the unification of the above two characters as well as infinitive creativity of mankind. Aesthetic spirit is the ultimate end of scientific spirit and moral spirit. It is the truest, purest, most virtuous, free, and liberal spirit compass and human's long-cherished spirit pursuit. In the course of human's spirit pursuit, learning, originally as the spiritual appreciation and the basic manner of survivorship, plays a vital role. The evolvement of man' spirit pursuit course and their learning style supplement each other: when new era requires uplift of man's spirit, the style of learning is surely to transform accordingly. And in turn the change of human's learning style necessarily brings development of people's spirit.This thesis includes five parts.Part I .Introduction. After analyzing the mutual relationship between the evolvement of man' spirit and the style of learning, the author expounds aesthetic spirit and the style of learning. Aesthetic spirit signifies the unification of the character of human labor's conformity to law and to intention and its infinite creativity; it is the truest, purest, most virtuous, free, and liberal spirit compass and the long-cherished spirit pursuit of human beings as well. The style of learning has different connotations in its broad and narrow sense. In the broad sense, the style of learning is a surviving style as well as a style of participation, experiencing, representing of the mankind. Learning style, in its narrow sense, means basic attitudes to school learning including the two aspects of beliefs and behavior. One point the thesis keeps in mind is, to treat students' learning in school in the broad sense of learning and from the angle of aesthetic spirit pursuit.Part II. The evolvement of man' spirit pursuit course and flaws existing in every respect of learning style in school education. Under the criteria of moral spirit and scientific spirit, the style of learning displays various characteristics respectively. Up till now, flaws exist in every respect of learning style in school education.This impedes uplift of man's spirit.So learning style must be changed!Part III. The era earmarks of human's spirit pursuit and the change of learning style. Aesthetic spirit is the spirit pursuit in the new epoch, which is the demand of the development strategy in achieving outright human nature and adapting to "human-centeredness". It is a category of development with rich connotation, abroad extension and multi-levels. It is the all-round harmony between human and nature, human and society, and human and themselves. Thereupon, we must dig the true connotation of learning and realize the spiritual generative feature and playing quality of learning individuals completely in order to achieve the realm in which everyone is happy to learn and leaning is a real indispensable spiritual enjoyment to every individual in their life.Part IV. The development trend of the aesthetic spirit pursuit and learning style. As aesthetic spirit is the spirit pursuit in the new epoch, the style of learning must change in the following manners: from teacher-based to student-based, from experience-collecting to tasting, from antinomy to co-existence, from cognition to sensing.Part V. Transform the learning style and cultivate the aesthetic spirit. To be more specific, the aim is to dredge up the aesthetic connotation embedded in the existing style of learning and to make the change of learning style enhance the cultivation of man's aesthetic spirit.