Study On Confucian Thought Of Educational Ethic

In ancient time, thought of educational ethic came into being, Confucius is the first great educationalist, philosopher and thinker in the history of Chinese people, and the first moralist with more complete ethical system in the history of China (Said by Zhu Yi-ting). So his thought of educational ethic especially should be the first role. The intention and meaning of this thesis are to offer helpful and important original value and ethical support for building Chinese Educational Ethics and reforming and developing Chinese education, on the basis of clarifying educational ethic, by explaining thought of educational ethic including its produced reasons, basic contents, historical limits and contemporary value scientifically and concretely.Educational ethic means ethical and moral relationship and question among people about education itself and educational process, educational action. In other words, educational ethic means to research on education itself and educational action in the role or perspective of ethics and morality, what's more, it is a special concept that is multi-tier and changeable.This thesis clarifies its produced reasons about Confucian thought of educational ethic including economy, politics and ideology and culture, and emphasizes that it is a product of history. There are different opinions about its basic contents. This thesis thinks that it at the least includes five aspects: (1) an educational ethical idea of"education for all"including its meaning, reason and valuable character: educational equality;(2) the footstone of educational ethical thought: unity of"benevolence"and"rule", the former is its center and the latter is its limited system, at the same time, they are a unity like people's two hands;(3) teachers' moral requirement of"never bored to learn, tired to teach", the former means"he is a teacher because of his high and deep acknowledge", the latter shows"he is our model because of his integrity", a teacher should be"never bored to learn, tired to teach";(4) educational ethical contents of"literature, behavior, loyalty and honesty";(5) educational ethical principals and methods of"study and thinking unity","encourage and induce"and"teach students in accordance with their aptitude". Accordingly, the contemporary value of Confucian educational ethical thought has five aspects :(1)"education for all": an equal idea of educational ethic,"Education for all"enlarges educational subjects and ranges, this idea has its contemporary value:"Education should be equal education", but we should have a long way if we truly turn equal education out about our present education;(2)"benevolence"and"rule":"mange school by morality"and"mange school by law", however our educational reforms, it must do well between"mange school by morality"and"mange school by law", thus our education will develop more rapidly and better, the former is an obvious character, an outer showing, the latter is a potential character, an inner character, they are a close unity;(3)"never bored to learn, tired to teach": equal stress on integrity and ability;(4)"literature, behavior, loyalty and honesty":"equal stress on five kinds of education, and moral education first"; (5)"study and thinking unity","encourage and induce"and"teach students in accordance with their aptitude": subjective and personalized.Without doubt, Confucian educational ethical thought was a result in ancient China from slave society to feudal society, which had over 2500 years, so it must have its historical limits. But we are Marxists of dialectical materialism and keep a dialectical viewpoint to anyone or anything, judge and analyze them with a practical and realistic attitude. So, we cannot absolutely deny the Confucian educational ethical thought only for its historical limits, nor can we completely accept and engraft it, it is obvious that it is illogical in theory and more harmful in fact to do so. Now what we can do is that we cannot criticize it at random because of its limits, but we should accept and create its best sides correctly, so as to contribute to constructing our contemporary educational ethic and reforming and developing our education. This is also the original intention of this essay.This thesis uses main methods: dialectical materialism and historical materialism, comparative method, logical and historical analyzing method, inductive method, deductive method, systematical method, linking theory with practice, and so on.This thesis believes that there is one creation: the contemporary value of Confucian educational ethical thought.