When Socrates meets Confucius苏格拉底遇见孔子.docx

When Socrates meets Confucius苏格拉底遇见孔子In ancient Chinese and western,there are two education masters can be comparable to each other.one is Confucius in Chinaand the other one is the ancient Greek Socrates, which up to now are still praised in the world.Imagine, when Socrates meets Confucius, what sparks will they collide out?As we know, Confucius is considered as the greatest of the ancient Chinese sages, and Socrates was an ancient Greek philosopher who was regarded as a saint dying for the pursuit of the truth. When it comes to educational mode, they have something in common, but at the same time they still hold volume of different views.From the perspective of Confucius, Confuciuss teaching method is the gentleman type, although in the teaching he is an amiable old man,he established the basic specification of teacher’sabsolute authority.In general, Confucius taught studentsby theknowledge-transference way. Although he also prompted the student, what he did was intended to find ways to let them understand what the teacher said better.So he was not happy for students against the intention of their teacher.This educational mode ismore to cultivate students to the teachers loyalty and understanding, to believe in authority.However, Socrates’ teaching methods were quite different from Confucius’. He never taught studentsthe ready-made answers, buttookdispute, cross-examine and so on to force students to think for themselves, and finally found the answer to their questions.He didn’t care whether they thought the same with their teacher and they believe what the teacher saidor not.The Socrates’ mode is more to cultivate students their own reasoning ability and self-awareness. So Plato, whowas good at thinking and pursued the dialectical way, became the heir of Socrates education style.From the way of education, Confucius transmitted knowledge while Socrates forced students themselves to get knowledge;Confucius taught people to believe while Socrates taughtthem to doubt