On The Modern Value Of Ethical Tradition Of Ru-schooled Educational Thinking From The View Of The Conflict And Blend Of Modern Education

Since the middle period of the Xihan dynasty, Chinese educational thinking has being dominated by the Ru-school represented by Confucius and Mencius. The Ru-school is the source of the Chinese educational tradition. During the process of the Chinese educational modernization however, we can not avoid such a very fact that a revolution and each step toward the modernization would lead to completely negative and discard the teaching content, teaching form and teaching spirit characterized by the Ru-schooled classic. Therefore, every so-called educational revolution is actually the process of the self-loss of the Chinese educational tradition and utterly imitation of the western educational concept. And this process has not yet formed the theoretical frame and teaching mode of the modern basic education with Chinese character. In other words, we can not satisfied with the talents cultivated in China.Encountering this situation, we have to ponder such a question as that the Chinese educational tradition represented by the Ru-school is really not blended with the modem education? In the long colorful civilized history of China and the development history of the Southeast Asia, the dominated Ru-school is really a block of the Chinese educational modernization? In view of this question, the author overviews the conflict and blend process of the Ru-schooled educational thinking with the modern educational concept in the contemporary China, puts forward the two different ideas of the traditional culture and cultural tradition, and points out the modem value (the basic principle of the equal and all citizens-oriented education; starting point of ethical practice; the traditional resources of the combination the "li" and "yue"; and teaching according to personal character)of the Ru-schooled thinking for implementing the quality education in China. In the meanwhile, the author believes that the ethics-first is the core content of the Ru-schooled educational thinking. Furthermore, in accordance with the current situation of the institutions of higher learning in China, it is pointed out that the ethics-first is conducive to today's ethics in China which should be emphasized more, the Ru-school's cultivation of ideal personalities is helpful for the aim of fostering "Four Haves" talents, the Ru's "Ren" and "Ai"are useful for the ethical principle of respecting, caring andunderstanding others, the Ru's rich ethical standards is the physicalization of ethics, the Ru's teaching methods can perfect the modern ethics methods, the Ru's strict-self-disciple stimulate us to do well students'self education, and the Ru's emphasizing of self-cultivation is contributed to the team construction of the ethics.