学历史是为了知往鉴来。现在的通用课本,中国史写到1949年,世界史写到1945年,而恰恰最近三、四十年来的社会变革、技术革命,发展很快,远非昔日可比。青年学生不了解这段历史,何能通晓当今的中国和世界,又何以更深刻地探测未来的历史发展动向。此种重古轻今思想,正是旧教学观的影响。两千多年的儒家教育,开口三皇五帝,闭口 Learning history is to learn from past experience. Now universal textbooks, the history of China wrote in 1949, the world history was written in 1945, and precisely the last three or four years of social change, technological revolution, rapid development, far from the old comparable. Without understanding this period of history, young students can understand contemporary China and the world and how they can probe the future historical developments even more deeply. This kind of ancient and modern thought is precisely the influence of the old teaching concept. Two thousand years of Confucian education, opening up the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, shut up