New Perspective of Humanity Theory and Its Significance to Education

As the base of education,most humanity theories concern abstract humanity,but give little attention to the specific humanity's complexity and diversity,integrity,dynamic generative nature,and its relation with history and culture.All these lead to their limitations in applying to educational realms.From the angle of humanity development process of a particular individual,humanity is human's internal trait that is generated and developed under the environmental influence and through self-selection in the course of individual life practice on the basis of heredity and growth.It consists of habits,disposition,similarity,natural instincts and self-achievement,which complement and restrict each other and construct the dynamic picture of humanity development.This kind of humanity view could properly elucidate humanity problems in educational realms and make us deliberately ponder educational theory and practice.It could especially help us to get a deep understanding of the following issues: the core significance of education is to promote full development of humanity;both the starting point and destination of education is to foster individuals with diversely developed humanity;the key of education is to enlighten students' consciousness and cultivate their ability of self-perfection;humanity education is the necessary way to improve humanity.