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Title:: How Childhood Can be So Rich：The Perspective of the Historyof Thought

Keywords:: child; childhood; human nature; Plato’s problem; philosophy of the heart of the newborn; child education

Abstract:: The child has precious natural resources，and the Plato’s problem entails the discovery of thechild as well as the questioning of how childhood can be so rich. The neoteny theory，from an evolutionaryperspective，makes a scientific explanation of the natural resources of childhood. In fact，such discoveries arenot uncommon in ancient Chinese philosophy. The Plato’s problem and the neoteny theory can be regarded assupport and backing for Chinese philosophy of the heart of the newborn. The discovery of human nature leadsto the discovery of the child. The discovery of human nature and the discovery of the child is the logical startingpoint of modern pedagogy. The status of the child and his human nature in our educational circles and evenin specific educational practice has yet to be confirmed and promoted. Only in this way can the confrontationbetween education and the child be suppressed or even solved completely.