A Study On Wang Tingxiang's Thought Of Educational Ethics

Wang Tingxiang, as a great ideologist of the materialistic philosophy in academe for a long time, there is little attention has been taken as an educator, even nobody attempt to sort out his thoughts of educational ethics. Therefore, we should further research on his thoughts of educational ethics. In this paper, the research on Wang Tingxiang's thoughts of educational ethics help us to understand the whole system of Wang Tingxiang's thoughts and enrich educational ethics in ancient China, and there is a great significance of theory and practice for today's educational reformation and developmentThis thesis explores Wang Tingxiang's thoughts of educational ethics from three aspects:First, the value of the pursuit of educational activities. The value of education is the premise of ethical education, and it is also the highest criterion toward the educational activities. So it can be said the core value of educational activities is the value of ethical education. The value of the pursuit of educational activities mainly in two ways:On one hand, educational activities shows the pursuit of value towards individual. Educational activities takes a great respects for human being's pullulation, perfection and developments of themselves, and the pursuit of the ideal personality. This dimension stands out the educational value of the cares for human's"life". On the other hand, educational activities shows the social pursuit of value, which means the responsibility of education is the beautification of the social ethos,the maintenance of social stability and the promotion social harmony. Second, the ethic characters of educational object. Students are educational objects, their study is not only a method and law issue, but also a moral issue. Because how to learn and why to learn is not only related with students'quality, ability, personality cultivation and improvement, but also related with the national social development. Wang Tingxiang emphasize that students should possess the quality of learning practical knowledge, which is conducive to the development of the society. Students should combine study and thoughts, broad and special reading, learn and action together to pursuit characteristics of scientific truth, digesting knowledge by ourselves, and never modeling the ancients'thought. Thirdly, the moral self-cultivation of the subject of education. Wang Tingxiang emphsize that as the subject of education, teachers should duratively strengthen self-cultivation,should include the requirements of love education, cherish intelligence, keeping principle and action with caution, taking the model, loyal to professionalism, showing the true goal in life, clear distinction between reward and penalty and equal treatment.What the discussion above is the core of this paper which is the second chapter. Beside of this introduction,this article is divided into three parts:First, The historical background and origins of Wang Tingxiang's educational ethics; Seconds, the main content of Wang Tingxiang's educational ethics thoughts; Third, the review of Wang Tingxiang's educational ethics.