To Read The Confucian Classics And How To Teach It Well In Elementary And Middle School

Chineses is very important to students'spiritual forming and humanistic promoting. The traditional culture often hides in the crystallization of chinese ancient civilization and the products of current spirit.From the end of last century started a trend"to read the Confucian classics". The chinese youths fund community and the Cultural Committee organize some experts to edit Chinese Ancient Prose Textbook to start"chanting the Chinese Ancient prose project". Jiang qingxing, who is called the contemporary scholar,built up the Bright Lecture Hall, and compiled textbook for Chinese cultural classical Elementary Education , which set of 12 volumes. Then the project developed vigorously. With the upsurge of the trend followed the debate. Some one said that the time was progressive, to read the Confucian classics was meaningless, because the contents in Confucian classics was useless to bring up modern citizen.They were in sharp opposition of recitting ,for it was a thorough barbaric. All these tit-for-tat debate is result from the thinking of culture and education, which is worth pondering over from historical and realistic angles.Chinese education takes chinese classical literature seriously., Although there is a lot of difficulties, never discontinue. In ancient education ,to read the Confucian classics is the mainstream,people in all historial periods always pay great attention to learning and carrying on the former culture. In modern times,to read the Confucian classics sparks off controversy, because of the new trend of thought .At the beginning of 20th century, the Qing government put the new policy into practice,and western education is brought into China. From then on, whether to oppose reading the Confucian classics becomes a hot point which has been disputing among educators .During ten years Great Cultural Revolution , the entire culture and education system is seriously destroyed, not to mention classical education . After 80's, with the refreshment of chinese education, classical education becomes an important content of chinese education in all levels of each kind of school.Culture is the backbone of a nation . In order to carry forward the civilization, important national culture quality, strengthen patriotism,construct harmonious society, activate academic creativity ,restone the highly self-confident of chinese culture which was lost in mordern times,we must rejucenate chinese culture.china's humanistic crisis turns out to be kinds of moralitic and justice crises, unfairness as well as valid losing. The facts prove that traditional culture can't help us to modernized,but it can provide spiritual stability and the moral instruction to modern society. Reconstrction after great destruction is the enlightenment.with the development of globalization, our national culture is challenged by westernization.when facing powerful culture, giving up our own culture means entirely westernization and...