Synopsis:
This book is about family education. It examines family education against the broader backdrop of four fundamental ways people understand the world, life, family, and existence, and emphasizes the role parents play in education. It stresses both that character determines one's fate and that goals determine one's fate. From there, it explores education in the family of origin and clarifies the connections and differences between family and school education.
Drawing primarily on my own experiences, this book uses my interactions with my child and personal growth as a vehicle to discuss how a child's personality takes shape, how it can be corrected, and how to foster their worldview, outlook on life, and values. It highlights six aspects of character development: creative thinking, goal-oriented thinking and dialectical thinking; the qualities of sharing and cooperation; a sense of responsibility and compassion; the shift from "me" to "us"; and the journey from expecting love from others to actively loving others.
By looking at the particular to understand the general, this book draws lessons from family education and explores its principles. It offers a creative approach to family education, advocates an equal and democratic parent-child relationship and a flexible educational philosophy, and calls on parents to recognize how their own self-education, self-renewal, and self-transcendence affect their children.
