"The Education And The Productive Labor Unify" In The View Of Practice Materialism

"The education and the productive labor unify"is both a guiding principle for our socialist education and a inevitable trend of the history. Though the understanding of "The education and the productive labor unify" itself have a history, it cannot be simply seen as a pure educational proposition. Contacted with the theory background and the social condition, we thought this theory firstly is a philosophy proposition. As a important proposition of Marxist philosophy, to understand it, the best understanding sight is the practice materialism. Regardless of the early years of the new nation, or after reform and open policy, we all thought the theory through dialectic materialism. That is, seen practice as a mean to cognize. Because of this, in the light of this guiding principle, our education combining to the productive labor has experienced a tortuous path. Besides some historical reasons, our misunderstanding of "The education and the productive labor unify" also accounts for it.As a philosophy theory,"The education and the productive labor unify"theory must be brought into line with Max's practice materialism, then it is possible get a correct understanding. As"practice"is the most essential concept in Max's practice materialism, it is very urgent for us to understand it first. The revolutionary character and advance of Marx's practice concept are compared with that of western tradition practice view. Also, Marx's concept of practice is an inheritance of western tradition practice. So, for us to understand Marx's practice, western traditional concept of practice is a barrier, as well as a key.Only then, we can come to grasp the essence and revolution significance of"The education and the productive labor unify"and then guide our socialist modernization including education cause.