Dialogues on the New Education (Works by Zhu Yongxin on Education Series) (ePub)

The most important task of education is to teach children to be kind, to have a dream, and to possess the ability to learn. --Zhu Yongxin One of today s leading education thinkers, Zhu Yongxin possesses a rare clarity about the purpose of education. Dialogues on the New Education is a collection of interviews with Professor Zhu on a wide array of important education issues. These are truly dialogues. The interviewers are either highly qualified journalists or education experts. The result is more dynamic and informative than anything a typical question/answer format could provide. Dialogues on the New Education provides a level of insight into the subject you will find nowhere else. The 55 interviews in this book cover such topics as: The Educational Ideals of an Official and Scholar Being a Teacher as a Life-Long Identity The Foundational Ideas of the New Education Experiment Moral Education During Times of Social Transition The Importance of Education Research Promoting Humanism and a Reading-Focused Society The Critical Role of Parents in a Child s Education Why Education Policymakers Should Listen to the Public Education should cultivate not only innovative talents and scientists but also applied skilled workers, Yongxin writes. But what s more critical is to turn our students into qualified citizens.