Labor and Its Educational Implication from the Perspective of "Natality"

The "natality" perspective divides the birth of human beings into: the birth of fact, the birth of political life and the birth of the spiritual world. We can reflect on "labor" from the four aspects of "birth": time view, space view, process view and active view. From the perspective of "process time", labor is a kind of painful labor, and working animals lose their freedom in the "metabolism of man and nature". From the perspective of the "appearance" space of birth, labor is the "universal" existence of man, and the individual identity is deprived in the "identity". From the perspective of the "accidental" and "unforeseeable" process of birth, labor is enslaved by the necessity of the life process, and the working animal can only repeat or copy the foreseeable products. From the perspective of the dynamic view of birth "innovation", labor lacks creativity because it is not stimulated by others in the place, and labor shows mechanical characteristics because it does not require the participation of the will. Based on the nativity reflection on labor, we need to re-examine the implication of labor education: labor education is an educational action that leads students into the public world. Labor education should enhance students' spiritual ability through two ways: commitment and forgiveness. Labor education is to allow students to demonstrate their own free actions through words and deeds in the presence of others. From the perspective of "action" to understand labor education, "Natality" provides beneficial enlightenment.