六问“有用”——兼论教育的命运

对于“有没有用”，有必要追问：何谓有用、对谁有用、何时有用、何处有用、是大用还是小用、是有用还是无用等问题。以这些来思考教育，就会发现，教育之“用”，不仅是传授，更在于陶冶，其意义十分深远。讨论教育之用的出发点在于人，人的多种需要使教育有多方面之用，教育的地位由人的地位、而非政治经济的地位来支配。

A Study of Usefulness——Discussing the Fate of Education

It＇ s necessary to ask whether it is useful or not. But what is usefulness？ Who use it？ When and where is it used？ Is the result of usefulness big or small？ And is it useful or useless？ If considering education by those above, we can find that the usefulness of education is not instructing but molding, which meaning is very profound. The study of the usefulness of education should begin with people. The various demands of people make education have many - sided usefulness. The position of education depends on the position of people, not on the position of politics and economy.