What is traditional education?

Traditional education refers to the educational theories and teaching models of the German educator Herbart and his school.

Traditional education is categorized as follows:

1) It refers exclusively to the educational theories and pedagogical models of the German educator Herbart and his school. The teaching process is divided into four stages: clarity, association, system and method. After Ryan divided the original first stage into two stages, the development of: preparation, prompting, association, generalization, application of five stages. the second half of the 19th century spread widely, the European and American education has had a great impact. the early 20th century into China. The American educator Dewey, in his book "School and Society", first called Herbart's educational thought and its mode of practice "traditional education" or "old education". This began a long period of debate between the modern school of education and the traditional school of education. This school of thought emphasized classroom teaching, teacher-led instruction, and the teaching of systematic scientific knowledge. The traditional school of education also had conservative and outdated aspects.

②Generally refers to the popular and influential educational ideas, systems and methods formed in a certain period of history. China's feudal society, Confucianism, moral cultivation, respect for teachers, teaching according to ability, step by step tradition; since the May Fourth Movement, there are democratic, scientific, progressive, revitalization of China's traditions; Western Ancient Greece, the main knowledge and focus on the tradition of harmonious education; after the Renaissance, there is a respect for children, follow the children's physical and mental development, cultivate the ability of the students and the initiative to learn, and attach importance to the classroom and the systematic transmission of knowledge of the tradition. All of the above are the traditional education formed in a certain historical period (also known as the educational tradition of the period), which is the abandonment, inheritance and development of the traditional education of the past. In the early stages of its formation and development, an educational tradition is basically realistic or progressive, but as times change and society advances, it will gradually become obsolete and outdated to varying degrees. Which is not in line with the objective reality and social development is removed, discarded; in line with the objective reality and social development is regarded as the essence of the affirmation, inheritance and development, and more scientific.