Discussions On The Sentimental Education As Emotional Liberation

In the modern society, while the scientific technologies are creating unparalleled materialwealth and industrial civilizations, they have also made the cognition and reason be highlyregarded by human beings. In the educational field, the above phenomenon was reflected asthe prevalence of the intellectualism education philosophy that refers to the people havealways been keeping their eyes on the development of people’s cognitive ability and rationalsenses, which led humans were imprisoned in the cage enveloped by knowledge and reason,even worse, it made persons neglected the essential role of sentiments in the human nature.However, it is insufficient to focus only on the rational development since the essence ofeducation is to cultivate humanity. Accordingly, the education of sentiments should be one ofthe dimensions of educational objectives.Based on the viewpoint of cultivating people, humanity should be the integration ofsensibility and reason while also be the combination of naturalness and socialness, andsentiments is an integral part of humanity. In the light of its nature, sentimental education isone of the ways for humans to show the respects to their naturalness, its objective dimensionis for the completeness of humanity and for the all-round development of human nature.Through sentimental education, humans’ reason will be internalized, agglomerated andaccumulated, meanwhile, the integration of sensibility and reason can be accomplished. Thiskind of aesthetic sentiment will eventually lead the humans to the aesthetic freedom realm.Based on the viewpoint of developing the noumenon of human, sentimental educationdoesn’t only mean the sentimental liberation--the sentimental needs and wants be satisfied, italso leads individual to reconstruct, develop and sublimate his/her personal sentimental world,within which, the humans’ creativity and life vitality were exploited and demonstrated, moreimportantly, the humans have transcended both the real and sentimental world while also thephysical and rational self.The human beings are living within the social relations, when thinking about this, itreminds us of that what we cultivate neither the simply biological emotion, nor the naturaltemperament in humans themselves. Instead, the sentiments with sociality is what wecultivate. Sentimental education is exactly aim at the humanized sentiments, which is withpossibility and reality to be achieved. From the perspective of methodology, on the one hand,there are certain positive significances of the sentimental education since it can takeadvantage of sentiments as the role of method and tool, on the other hand, it is far fromadequate as a method or tool, the education based on sentiments and the education forsentiments should be unified in the educational process when we realize the meanings of lifeactivities are just resident in the process.