Let's begin with art

Author: Liu Xiangguo
Publisher:
Publish Date: 1999-08-01
Features: Teaching is called an art because classroom instruction provides ample room for creative freedom, allowing teachers to create like artists, musicians, writers, and poets. Teaching is an art. A lack of creativity in art inevitably makes it monotonous and dull. His creativity not only allows him to express and showcase his talents with unique personality but also requires coordination with students. Students are both the objects of this creative activity and its active participants and primary beneficiaries. The outcome of this artistic creation is not a celebrated masterpiece, not a timeless musical composition, nor a renowned literary work, but rather the souls of the younger generation and the masters of the future world. The art of teaching is the fruit of a teacher's wisdom in delving into teaching materials, researching students, and engaging in creative labor. This art, which transmits human culture and civilization, develops physical strength and wisdom, and shapes the souls of people, is meticulously painted on children through the teacher's heart and hands. It is a comprehensive art, the art of arts.
The "Series on the Art of Teaching in Primary and Secondary Schools" is a collection of the teaching achievements of outstanding primary and secondary school teachers across the country, based on the findings of the "Research on the Art of Teaching for the 21st Century Teacher Development in China" under the "Nineth Five-Year Plan" national key project. In March 2003, the China Educational Society approved the project "Research on the Modern Art of Teaching" as a key project under the "Tenth Five-Year Plan."