The Traditional Pedagogy in the Seeking of the Modernization of Education

We should take scientific attitude to the law of the unity of opposites between the traditional pedagogy and the modern pedagogy in the course of probing into the modernization of education. The traditional pedagogy is the historical source of modern pedagogy. Simultaneously the modern pedagogy is also the frames of reference of the amelioration of development of traditional pedagogy. The relationship of subtlety between the past and modern times is a kind of fluidity of to and fro and interweaving, which is also a kind of dialectic mutual movements. It is just this controversy between two kinds of strength that prompt the advancement and great progress of the world educational theories. Meanwhile both of two kinds of strength also are gradually running into the mutual understanding and identification. The traditional pedagogy has a kind of bred-in-the-bone effect upon China and is still steering the practice of Chinese education. So we should combine the two sides correctly by learning from others?strong points to offset one抯 weakness. In this way the education of socialism with Chinese characteristics could be constituted finally.