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Abstract: Nowadays, more and more teachers are trying to find the new teaching methods, but we shouldn’t ignore the traditional methods, because they are valuable and practical. The traditional teaching methods should be cherished.
Key words: traditional teaching methods Confucius’s ideas modern teaching methods
With the development of education, teachers pay more attention to searching for the new teaching methods ignoring a lot of traditional methods. But such thought is unacceptable. We should not only develop the traditional methods but also search for some new ones instead.
Compared with Confucius’ teaching methods, modern education has some problems. At present students are good at memorizing what they have learned from the textbooks or teachers, but they are not in the habit of forming and expressing their own ideas. Their role in the process of learning is more or less a passive one. This is because our educator pays more attention to feeding students with knowledge than to fostering their ability to learn by themselves and to think independently, which leads to mechanical and passive learning, yet not knowing how to use their minds.
Today’s education is also not teaching students in accordance with their aptitude but teaching students in the same way without discrimination, taking no particular consideration of their different interests and capacities. That means the educators today are more concerned with the amount of knowledge given to students. Educated in this way, students can only inherit from the past without knowing how to develop for the future.
How to solve these problems in today’s education depends on two things: inheriting some of the traditional methods and developing them; searching for some modern suitable teaching methods.
In Confucius’ opinion, learning is a process of exploring and understanding of one’s initiative. So it is very important for the students to learn by themselves, the role of the teacher is to guide. Because the knowledge that a teacher can impart to his students is limited, teachers should try hard to foster the students’ ability of perception, that is the ability of cognition by relating new ideas to familiar ideas, the known to the unknown, the surface to the underlying. And then, the students can learn by themselves, which does not mean that the teacher is no longer necessary. Actually, great emphasis is on the teacher’s role in guiding students in the course of study. A good teacher should be skillful in helping and encouraging his students to learn by themselves.
The role of guiding focuses on two aspects. One is guiding the students to do better in the process of learning. In class, the teacher should help the students cultivate the habit of active thinking, questioning, debating and expressing their thoughts. The other is developing their interest and eagerness in study. The teacher can make full use of modern equipment, such as video, computer and many other different ways to evoke the students.
Besides this, in Confucius’ ideas, the teacher should teach the students in accordance with their aptitude. Students vary in their individualities, interests, capacities, background of learning, ambitions, life styles and so on. So as a teacher, first, he should believe every students is excellent and each has his own merit, and unique capacity. Then the teacher can accommodate teaching methods to these differences. Different students have different contents to learn, have different demands, different homework, which does not mean one is better than the other. They are just different. Thus the students can build their self-confidence, which is very important in the process of their learning and even in their life.
Form above, we can see that some of traditional teaching methods are really valuable and practical today. In order to meet the fast development of education, we should search for new ways to surpass what has been achieved in the past, at the same time we should also draw upon historical heritage, which is worth cherishing. Only in this way can our education become more and more advanced.
参考文献：
1.罗大同：《我国的传统教学法》 湖北大学学报，1980年。
2.马贻忠：《两种教学方法，两种教学效果》宁夏教育，1980年。
3.高明天：《二十一世纪我国教学方法变革研究》，西北师范大学， 2001年。
4.曾 晖：《语言和语言学习本质对大学英语课堂教学方法的启示》西南师范大学，2000年。
作者简介：张燕歌（1980- ），女，河南平顶山人，助教，本科，主要研究方向为英语语言学。
Key words: traditional teaching methods Confucius’s ideas modern teaching methods
With the development of education, teachers pay more attention to searching for the new teaching methods ignoring a lot of traditional methods. But such thought is unacceptable. We should not only develop the traditional methods but also search for some new ones instead.
Compared with Confucius’ teaching methods, modern education has some problems. At present students are good at memorizing what they have learned from the textbooks or teachers, but they are not in the habit of forming and expressing their own ideas. Their role in the process of learning is more or less a passive one. This is because our educator pays more attention to feeding students with knowledge than to fostering their ability to learn by themselves and to think independently, which leads to mechanical and passive learning, yet not knowing how to use their minds.
Today’s education is also not teaching students in accordance with their aptitude but teaching students in the same way without discrimination, taking no particular consideration of their different interests and capacities. That means the educators today are more concerned with the amount of knowledge given to students. Educated in this way, students can only inherit from the past without knowing how to develop for the future.
How to solve these problems in today’s education depends on two things: inheriting some of the traditional methods and developing them; searching for some modern suitable teaching methods.
In Confucius’ opinion, learning is a process of exploring and understanding of one’s initiative. So it is very important for the students to learn by themselves, the role of the teacher is to guide. Because the knowledge that a teacher can impart to his students is limited, teachers should try hard to foster the students’ ability of perception, that is the ability of cognition by relating new ideas to familiar ideas, the known to the unknown, the surface to the underlying. And then, the students can learn by themselves, which does not mean that the teacher is no longer necessary. Actually, great emphasis is on the teacher’s role in guiding students in the course of study. A good teacher should be skillful in helping and encouraging his students to learn by themselves.
The role of guiding focuses on two aspects. One is guiding the students to do better in the process of learning. In class, the teacher should help the students cultivate the habit of active thinking, questioning, debating and expressing their thoughts. The other is developing their interest and eagerness in study. The teacher can make full use of modern equipment, such as video, computer and many other different ways to evoke the students.
Besides this, in Confucius’ ideas, the teacher should teach the students in accordance with their aptitude. Students vary in their individualities, interests, capacities, background of learning, ambitions, life styles and so on. So as a teacher, first, he should believe every students is excellent and each has his own merit, and unique capacity. Then the teacher can accommodate teaching methods to these differences. Different students have different contents to learn, have different demands, different homework, which does not mean one is better than the other. They are just different. Thus the students can build their self-confidence, which is very important in the process of their learning and even in their life.
Form above, we can see that some of traditional teaching methods are really valuable and practical today. In order to meet the fast development of education, we should search for new ways to surpass what has been achieved in the past, at the same time we should also draw upon historical heritage, which is worth cherishing. Only in this way can our education become more and more advanced.
参考文献：
1.罗大同：《我国的传统教学法》 湖北大学学报，1980年。
2.马贻忠：《两种教学方法，两种教学效果》宁夏教育，1980年。
3.高明天：《二十一世纪我国教学方法变革研究》，西北师范大学， 2001年。
4.曾 晖：《语言和语言学习本质对大学英语课堂教学方法的启示》西南师范大学，2000年。
作者简介：张燕歌（1980- ），女，河南平顶山人，助教，本科，主要研究方向为英语语言学。