1. Xue Yong: How Americans Cultivate the Elite (including the author's related books, such as The Ladder of the Elite).

Reason for recommendation: "Education in other countries and teachers in other countries" can be regarded as a type, and the related recommended bibliographies are: Quality Education in the United States (the only regret of this book is that it is a little old), I teach high school in the United States (by Shanyi) and so on.

For teachers in China, the most urgent task is to understand "education in other countries", rather than simply excluding foreigners. It is shameful for someone to reject "the education of other countries" for fear of "total westernization" in this era.

2. Dewey: School and Society School of Tomorrow.

Highlight: "School and Society School of Tomorrow" is actually not a book, but a combination of Dewey's books. These books are not Dewey's most theoretical books (generally speaking, Dewey's most theoretical book is Democracy and Education), but they all discuss the right and wrong issues of American social change and educational reform at that time. Judging from the state of social transformation, China's current social state is similar to that of the United States at that time, and China's current educational state is also similar to that of the United States at that time, which makes Dewey's series of books (School and Society, School of Tomorrow, co-edited by People's Education Publishing House) particularly suitable for teachers in the modern era.

3. Li Zehou's Reading the Analects of Confucius (related books include Tao Te Ching, although there are conflicts and tensions in many viewpoints, they can complement each other because of their opposites).

Highlight: If the first task is to understand "the education of other countries", the second task is to understand "one's own culture", including especially China's classical culture. Not all the classics are good, but the classic books have gone through the elutriation and selection of time. Even though many later generations criticized it, since it is qualified to become a classic, it has its own power to form a classic.

Understanding "other countries' education" and basing on "one's own culture" is a relatively enlightened road to "Renaissance".

4.[ Japanese] Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's book: "Little Peas by the Window".

Recommended reason: For scholars, they can study "education in other countries" and "their own culture" directly through academic works and investigation reports, but for the public, they need to resort to the road of "literature and art".

In the field of education, there are few "educational literature and art", but it is not without them, such as Rousseau's Emile and Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's Little Peas by the Window. Emile is a world-recognized masterpiece, but the pace is too slow and the lesson is too heavy. Therefore, we recommend Little Peas by the Window.

If we talk about "educational literature and art", it naturally includes educational novels and educational films. The latter are Spring Breeze and Rain (movie), The Sound of Music (movie), The Rise of Great Powers (TV film), and so on.

Besides "educational novel", there is a strange "animal novel" worth reading, that is, Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong. It may make some readers have a boiling passion and feel the passion and strength of life. And this quality is exactly what some teachers are seriously lacking.

5. Wang Xiaobo: The Silent Majority (related books include Zhou Guoping's Prose, Yu Qiuyu's Prose and other related articles).

Recommended reason: What we still value is the significance of "educational literature and art" and "educational enlightenment".

6. Zhang Minsheng and Yu Yi: Teachers' Humanities Reader (revised up and down)

Recommended reason: If the first urgent task of teachers in China is to understand and understand "education in other countries", the second urgent task is to base on "own culture", the third urgent task is to enter "educational literature and art", then the fourth urgent task is to undertake "educational enlightenment" (including "self-enlightenment" and "enlightenment to others"). Related books include Xia Zhongyi's "College Humanities Course" and "College Humanities Reader: Man and Country"; University Humanities Reader: Man and the World, and University Humanities Reader: Man and Self.

We can find these books from the clues of "educational literature and art" and "educational enlightenment" and recommend them to teachers.

7. Xie Yong: Hu Shi or Lu Xun (related books include Complete Works of Lu Xun and Complete Works of Hu Shi).

Highlight: As far as the ideological field is concerned, these "two brothers" can hold up the whole modern China. Their thoughts can still play the important role of "enlightenment" today.

8. Zhang Wenzhi's book: The Authorization of Your Lip (and the author's related Eye of Fantasy, Defending Childhood, etc.).

Highlight: Almost all Zhang Wenzhi's books can be regarded as "educational literature and art" works. A good "educational literature and art" always hides the "educational truth" in the works quietly. According to this standard, Mr. Zhang Wenzhi's book is an excellent "educational literature and art" work.

9. Xiao Chuan's book: The Ideal and Belief of Education (the author's related books include The Truth and Wisdom of Education).

The "educational enlightenment" we are looking forward to means "expressing concern about the real problems in education and bravely making critical thinking about the real problems, so as to make China's education more free, more equal, more democratic and more humane". On this road, Mr. Xiao Chuan's work is a shining lighthouse (although it is only a tiny lighthouse).

If "educational enlightenment" is a theme worthy of consideration, then Xiaochuan Education Blog, Liu Tiefang Education Blog and Xu Xiliang Education Blog are worth watching every day. Among them, Liu Tiefang's Watch Education and Walking on the Edge of Education are worth reading. Xu Xiliang's "survey of education" (named after my own opinion, but still in his blog) will make teachers' eyes suddenly bright, and they may swear not to live an "old-fashioned life" after reading Xu Xiliang's article.

10.[ America] Hunter: The Story of Psychology.