Addiction to Human Growth: 20 Teachers' Classroom Discoveries

Author: Zhang Wenzhi
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: The 20 teachers in this book are almost all very familiar to me. They are active life lovers, true readers, and excellent teachers. These qualities can be fully felt from the words between the lines of their works. Educational writing is both wonderful and difficult. The difficulty lies in the courage to face education and life behind the words, as well as the patience and sincerity required for practice. It is precisely because of these valuable qualities that these words help us become more sensitive, refined, and strong. — Professor Xiao Chuan from Beijing Normal University
There is a specialized field of study focused on education, known as "pedagogy." Pedagogy is essentially the study of how to effectively educate students and how to become a good teacher. It would seem that even if this field is not popular with others, it should at least be well-received by primary and secondary school teachers. Especially today, when primary and secondary school teachers are everywhere asking, "How can we be better teachers today?" pedagogical knowledge should be a common expectation for them. However, things are not as simple as they seem. "Pedagogy" is widely rejected and criticized by university students, and it is despised and hated by primary and secondary school teachers. If you ask, how many primary and secondary school teachers are willing to read "pedagogy"? With pedagogy already so "dishonored," someone should step forward to make some effort to transform it. Mr. Zhang Wenzhi's efforts largely carry such a mission. If traditional pedagogy is called "logical pedagogy," this book can be considered "narrative pedagogy"; if traditional pedagogy is called "official pedagogy," this book can be called "folk pedagogy."
Root—Dr. Liu Lianghua from the Institute of Education, South China Normal University
I have personally witnessed the wisdom and creativity of most of these teachers in their classrooms and often praise the magic of education and the efforts made to restore such magic in their deeply moving, life-affirming words. The life-oriented education movement delves deeply and meticulously into schools both within and outside Fujian Province, and its folk stance and grassroots sentiment are vividly reflected in the 20 teachers in this book. Although the flower of the spirit is fragile and grows with difficulty, it predicts a beautiful and commendable possibility for education through its own resilience and patience. — Advocate of life-oriented education, Zhang Wenzhi
These simple and sincere words blend experience, insights, wisdom, and passion, recording some of the most memorable moments in life. The classroom that can continuously inspire, move, and stimulate us is actually a part of our lives. No matter which page you open, it is filled with awe and longing for the secrets of human growth. The origin of education is love and responsibility: for oneself, for all life, for the effort to explore the unknown, and for the future that we devoutly anticipate yet cannot predict. The 20 teachers in this book are almost all very familiar to everyone. They are active life lovers, true readers, and excellent teachers. Through these simple and sincere words, blending experience, insights, wisdom, and passion, they record some of the most memorable moments in life: the classroom that can continuously inspire, move, and stimulate us is actually a part of our lives. No matter which page you open, it is filled with awe and longing for the secrets of human growth.