On Poetry Education Of Confucius

As an original form of education, the education activities of Confucius contain the essential elements and the basic practice logic of education. As a kind of Confucius's educationa activities, reveal the process of poetry education will help us understand the original form of education well. The poetry education of Confucius is unique for the close relation with shijing.To understand the poetry education of Confucius,the primise thing is to realize the original form of poem and ritual and the relations with human-being——it's possible for human-being to experience dao in the "xing", and listen dao in the group ritual ceremony. However, we must keep our body-participating all the time to make the possibility come ture.Confucius grasps the nature of poem and ritual accurately. So in the process of poetry education, Confucius keeps his body-participating all the time, and guides his students to dao by spoken language. In the mature stage, the spoken language of Confucius and common students living in harmony with the poetic exist among.The poetry education of Confucius shows that:the factor of teacher identity establishing is that teachers experience dao in the "xing" always earlier than students. But then, it does not mean that teachers can always experience better than students. With the progress of poetry education, the identity of the teachers and students will become increasingly no-obvious. Fundamentally speaking, education should start from body-participating, teachers and students should always keep their bodies-awakening, always through the bodies to understand others, always prepare for practice.