Study On The Educational Methods Of Confucius And Innovation Of Methods About Contemporary Ideological And Political Education

The main question which the contemporary ideological and political education faced is the result is not very effective; the primary cause is method expiration. Although the contemporary ideological and political education has adjusted and reformed in the methods, in fact, the method of instillation was mainly used. This method has some shortcomings, such as unitary, unidirectional and unilateral and so on. The educational thought of Confucius has the uniformity with the contemporary ideological and political education in aspects of the goal, essence and the methods, especially the combination of Politics and education. Its educational method can be applied in the contemporary ideological and political education possibly and the feasibly. This article just based on it. The contemporary ideological and political education tried to utilize and refer to the educational methods of Confucius. The educational methods of Confucius are broad and profound, this article mainly summed up seven aspects. They respectively are: teaching students according to their aptitude, inspiration and induction, studying and thinking, hardworking and asking, restraining oneself and engaging in introspection, studying for the purpose of application and being friends between teachers and students mutually. By carrying on exhaustive explanation and the analysis respectively to pedagogue, students as well as the relationship and medium between teachers and students, in order to build the rationale for the concrete utilization later. We can carry on four successful cases which utilize the educational methods of Confucius in modern times to notify. They're Tao Xingzhi, Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi and Liang Shuming, providing the powerful model basis. Finally we obtain that the contemporary ideological and political education also to be supposed to correspond from above seven aspects profits from the Confucius outstanding educational method to be adopted by us, thus carrying on the research on innovation about methods, hoping to enhance the effectiveness of contemporary ideological and political education. Certainly, regarding this question, this article has not exhausted to its research, also needing to further research on educational method of Confucius and the new pattern of the methods about contemporary ideological and politicaleducation.