Abstract:

The story of A Pony Crosses River reveals that one needs to try by himself so that to find out the truth. However, it is not necessary for everyone to try everything. In educational practice, this conclusion is often taught only as anuniversal knowledge, while neglecting the specific situational and individual understanding functions of this conclusion. Individual understanding can present two kinds of structures after the socialized cognition, which can be elucidated the linear structure of “obligation responsibility” and the curved structure of “right duty responsibility”. The former avoids the individual understanding, while the latter emphasizes the individual understanding. Thus the “right duty responsibility”structure opens up the bottleneck of the interaction between individual and society. Under the curved structure of cognition, individuals are no longer passive bearers, but active participants in social construction. The promoting effect of education on individual social cognitive curved structure lies in taking individual understanding ability as a breakthrough, through suspending the obligation requirements of linear structure, restoring the situational background of understanding play in order to liberate individual understanding ability, and carrying out teaching through the structure of problem situation and the development of understanding ability.

Key words: intellectual ability, social recognition, individual recognition, cognitive competence, linear structure, curved structure