What are the negative factors in traditional family education in China?

(A) "parents" authoritarian family education system

"Father is son" is the moral standard of parent-child relationship in China feudal society. Generally, the men of the highest generation are the "parents" in the family, who control the economic life of the whole family, occupy a dominant position and control the fate of the whole family.

Therefore, the traditional family education is the education of elders, especially "parents", while "parents" are educators and the younger generation is educated, forming an authoritarian family education system of "parents".

(B) the feudal "program" as the center of family education thought

The traditional family education in China was carried out under the guidance of the feudal "Three Cardinal Principles and Five Permanent Principles". His educational thoughts are full of strong feudal colors, such as "filial piety education", which absolutes the normal ethics of respecting the old and loving the young, establishes education with filial piety, and cultivates "loyal ministers and dutiful sons" who are loyal to their superiors and even the emperor's "father" at home.

These ideas are the product of China feudal society, in which the family is the foundation of the world and the small-scale peasant economy is the focus of social life. It runs through the implementation of traditional family education in China, putting family interests in the supreme position and treating children as the private property of the family. This awareness of small farmers has become the guiding ideology of family education and will seriously affect the effectiveness of family education.

Only cautious, selfish and narrow-minded closed people can be cultivated. Today, if we want to cultivate modern talents with lofty aspirations and broad vision, we must resolutely abandon these feudal ideas.

The primacy of knowledge

Knowledge is a form of culture, and people's views on knowledge are subject to the traditional culture of the country.

During the feudal autocratic period, China admired Confucian culture to the utmost, from dignitaries to pawns, and even rural farmers had a blind worship of scholars. People have a sincere admiration for "well-read" people, and the concept of "filial piety to friends, reading and nourishing sex" is also deeply rooted in people's hearts.

Today, due to the influence of this ancient official culture, parents have almost blind worship for letting their children master more knowledge. Many parents are absolute advocates of the "knowledge priority theory", and parents measure and evaluate their children's growth entirely by the amount of knowledge they acquire.

In their view, studying hard and going to college is the only way out for children in China. Therefore, children have to face many papers every day. They have been doing problems for more than ten years from the age of 6 to the age of 19, and they have to cross the two difficulties of "senior high school entrance examination" and "college entrance examination".

Parents focus on school scores, regard education only as the score of each test paper of their children, and aim at intellectual development, completely ignoring the cultivation of non-intellectual factors and children's mental health education.