Briefly describe Fukuzawa Yukichi's educational thought and try to evaluate it.

Answer: (1) Fukuzawa Yukichi, a famous Japanese enlightenment thinker and educator in modern times, was an outstanding educator in Meiji period. He has been engaged in writing and education all his life. Representative works mainly include Persuasion and Introduction to Civilization.

He devoted his whole life to the cause of "civilization" in Japan, actively publicized the "natural human rights" of the bourgeoisie, and regarded education as the fundamental way to criticize Japanese feudal thought, develop people's wisdom and spread modern western capitalist civilization. He has a clear understanding of the possible role of education in enlightening people's wisdom, improving people's quality and promoting social development. He focuses on intellectual education, moral education and physical education.

① The role of education

He believes that people's intelligence can be developed through knowledge education, and the ability to think independently and distinguish right from wrong can be cultivated. Educate people through moral education, form a correct national concept and improve national self-esteem; Improve national quality through sports. At the same time, it emphasizes that heredity, environment and education play a role simultaneously in human development.

② About intellectual education

The goal of intellectual education: to improve the learners' intelligence level, and then to improve the individual's ability to think, analyze and understand things. In the concrete implementation of intellectual education, students should be taught some practical knowledge closely related to social production.

③ About moral education

Fukuzawa Yukichi believes that the civilization level of a country is not only reflected in the intelligence level of its citizens, but also the moral level is an important standard. When carrying out moral education, Fukuzawa Yukichi strongly opposed to instilling feudal ethics in students, and opposed to instilling feudal ethics in students with stories such as loyal ministers, dutiful sons, righteous men and good women. While implementing moral education, schools must also cooperate with all aspects of family and society to implement it.

④ About physical education.

The goal of physical exercise is to make people healthy and energetic. Happy, so as to overcome all kinds of difficulties in society and live independently.

(2) Evaluation

As the spokesperson of the emerging bourgeoisie, Fukuzawa Yukichi actively engaged in activities such as civilization and ideological enlightenment during the Meiji Restoration, criticized feudal consciousness and concepts with education as a sharp weapon, and called for vigorously developing education, improving the quality of Japanese nationals and bringing Japan into the forest of civilized countries. The influence of Fukuzawa Yukichi's educational thought on the educational reform during the Meiji Restoration can be found in many educational reform decrees, and the government's educational reform is in step with Fukuzawa Yukichi's call for educational reform. Fukuzawa Yukichi's Educational Thought