From Socrate to Dewey:The"Life"Turning of Education and the Complete of the Modern Education

Socrates and Plato,representative of classical education,take the pursuit of good things as their fundamental concerns,and propound remembering as a basic form of education,which reflects the transcendence of education over the everyday world. From Comenius's didactic ofthe whole art of teaching all things to all the mento Rousseau's re-discovery of children in education,from Spencer'seducation as a preparation for perfect lifeto Dewey'seducation as a necessity of life,modern education is both a process of adaptation to the industrial era and democratic life,a course of the spread of education,and a democratic realization of education as well. The completion of modern education means the modernization of the education process under the umbrella of modern knowledge;education is no longer based on Plato'sremembering,but also on the acquisition and modification of actual experience. The claim of children as a classical natural existence was replaced by the view of children as a modern psychological sense.It leads to a change of the aim of modern education to efficiency and technology and children are regarded as the subject of the efficiency.Contemporary education lies in an entire realization of the orientation to life,in the maintaining of the transcendence of education over life,and in the preserving of some necessary enigma in the process of education.Thus a balance can be achieved between the realization of the aspiration of modern education for efficiency and the guard against the loss of ethical concerns of education in itself to facilitate cultivation of individuals with a sound mind in a sound body.