“学”与“思”是《论语》中两个重要的教育概念,二者在概念上较以往有很大突破和发展:“学”继承了之前“学”以“效”为核心的特点,同时突出“学文”的重要性,强调“博学于文”;“思”发展了自宗周以来初步萌发的“思”的理性方面,表现在明确“思”的实践取向和强调“思”的自我监督功能.孔子首次将“学”“思”整合,在教育方法论上构建了博学与自修并行的成君子之路,对中国古代博学与修身兼具的教育传统影响深远,对当代中国的学习文化亦有重要影响.

Xue (学)and Si (思),which are repeatedly discussed in The Analects of Confucius,are two core educational concepts of Confucius.They are different from today’s “learning”and “thinking”.The Xue and Si in The Analects of Confucius are two paralleled concepts,but they are different in terms of im-portance,with Xue more important than Si.What’s more,the discussion about Xue and Si and their rela-tionship in The Analects of Confucius are thorough and comprehensive,and can be considered as a compar-atively systematic educational theory.Revisiting the text of The Analects of Confucius to analyze the two concepts and their relationship can help us to make a deeper understanding about the meaning of Xue and Si theory in its culture context,and to further understand its educational significance and value.

The theory of new and traditional education by Dewey is normally viewed as opposing the education theory of essentialism by Bagley.This paper performs a critical analysis of Bagley in relation to knowledge and curricular knowledge from the comparison with Dewey.It is argued that it is inappropriate to conclude essentialism by the dichotomy of new or traditional education.Bagley explores over the modern education from historical viewpoint,thus getting away from the dilemma of the dichotomy and subjectivist dualism.