Children's Spirit And Its Implication For Education

Children is unique significance of the "person", children's spirit is equivalent by no means to adults' spirit. They have their particularity. Recognizing "person", we can not neglect to recognize children; researching the spirit of person, we should not overlook the children's spirit research. With the changes in "human" concepts, educational environment and social ideology, especially the evolution of children's concept and the development of children's education, "children" only separated from the adult culture and gradually become a subject possessing independent consciousness and spirit. As a growing and developing individual, children have their rich spiritual world.However, in the adult world, children's spirit has become a paradoxical existence. On the one hand, facing the spiritual world of children's innocence and pureness, freedom and purity, not for fame or fortune, game and imagination, the adults usually esteem or respect them; On the other hand, adult also fill with anxiety and worry about children's spirit, because their spirit do not match the value of adults' standards. So, adults always tend to put children under their supervision. Children's spiritual world has become controlled, despised and broken. Adults are accustomed to measure everything with their standard, to design the future for children with their ideal model. As a result, children's spirit, emotion and needs are often neglected and deprived.In view of these, "children" as a kind of spiritual existence, need to be re-recognized and reconsidered. The approaches mainly include: (1) regard children as "children". Children's spirit is unique, and its specificity is the base of education. (2) envisage children's "language". Respect children's right to speak and allow children to fully statement, game and imagine. (3) break children's "wall". Achieve connecting between education and life, schools and community. (4) focus on children's "happiness" . Services for children's pursuit of happiness in real life, pay attention to the realistic care and the ultimate concern of children's spirit.