人到了老年阶段,依然有需求要改变、求进步。身为终身教育队伍中的一员,笔者在工作生涯里也很清醒地认识到,我们所做的工作,不仅仅是开设几个老年教育课程、职业技能培训班那么简单。教育之所以为教育,不在于让学员学到了多少知识和技能,而在于灌输给他们一种思想,一种“我要学”的态度,一种认识到自己仍要发展、进步的需要,这才是终身教育工作者孜孜以求的目标。然而,在偏远的农村地区,老年人的整体文化水平不高,对学习缺乏主动性,通常视社区学校开设的老年班级为一种 When people reach old age, there is still a need to change and seek progress. As a member of the lifelong education team, I also realized clearly in my working life that what we did was not only simple to open several senior education courses and vocational skill training courses. The reason why education is education does not lie in how much knowledge and skills students have learned, but instilling them a kind of thinking, a kind of “I want to learn” attitude, a need to realize that they still need to develop and progress. This is the goal pursued by lifelong educators. However, in remote rural areas, the overall cultural level of the elderly is not high, and there is a lack of initiative in learning. This type of school is usually regarded as a kind of elderly class