I haven’t read Lu Xun’s articles since leaving the middle school textbooks, and I want to read Lu Xun again this year. The title "How Do We Be Fathers Now" was originally an article in Lu Xun's collection of essays "The Grave". How to be a father is a major topic in one's life. After all, it is difficult to become proficient in this matter by accumulating experience in one's life. Therefore, being a father is not a technical issue, but a thinking issue.
Lu Xun's era had just experienced the transition from feudal society to modern times. The patriarchal ideas of the feudal era had the greatest influence on how to be a father. Therefore, Lu Xun wrote this article mainly to analyze this problem and use the idea of evolution to look at it. The relationship between father and son. The article was written in 1919. At the time, it might have been regarded as a theory of the future. Now, more than a hundred years later, it seems just right.
Grandfathers and descendants are originally only one level of the bridge of life.
What I believe now is extremely simple. It is based on phenomena in the biological world,
One, to preserve life;
Second, to continue this life;
Third, we must develop this life (that is, evolution).
All living things do this, and so does the father.
How to do this? The teacher said: "In this way, parents should raise their children soundly, educate them to the best of their ability, and completely liberate them."
The production of soundness corresponds to the preservation and continuation of this life. It was not easy to be healthy in Lu Xun's era. More than a hundred years later, modern medicine has largely solved the problem of health in physiology, but whether it occurs or not has become a new problem. It is difficult to save a few lives if it occurs. It seems to be a problem. Becoming a father is a natural evolution of biological evolution. All living things do this. I agree with your husband and think you should do this. Otherwise, it seems that you have not fulfilled your obligations in this world.
Effortless education corresponds to the development of this life. Parents often hope that their children will be better than themselves, so education has become a new point of anxiety, but a lot of anxiety is about scores and rankings, not education itself. Education is not a test, it is not a score, and it should not even be narrowed down to the acquisition of a skill that can make a living. Most skills will change with the times, just like abacus in the pre-computer era (it was still taught in school when I was studying). The current era is moving from informatization to digitalization to AI. The artificial intelligence product ChatGPT released this year has become popular all over the world. The latest version of GPT-4 can get the top 5% in college courses or GRE exams, which has surpassed The level of most college students. Imagine that AI may be like the Internet. It has fully entered all aspects of social life in the past 20 to 30 years. There is an almost unlimited supply of top-level college students' standardized abilities. So what do people really need in the education of the next generation?
Complete liberation is the final stage in the development of this life. "Children are people who are neither me nor myself. Because they are me, they should fulfill the obligation of education and give them the ability to stand on their own. Because they are not me, they should also be liberated at the same time. They should own everything for themselves and become independent people. ." The growth of educating children is a process of continuous independence. When the child is still in the mother's belly, he is almost 100% "I". From the continuous growth of birth and education, he completes separation and then independence, and finally becomes independent. To the stage of liberation of "not-self".
It's just that I have been a handler of overpayments all the time.
Do a good job as a handler: "Carrying the heavy burden of inheritance, shouldering the gate of darkness, let them go to a broad and bright place; from then on, they can live happily and live a reasonable life." Although times have changed, they will always There are the inherited burdens and dark gates of our own time, but the goal remains the same - to move towards a broad and bright place, live happily, and live a reasonable life.
My husband said it well more than a hundred years ago, and we should still do this as a father now.
