We Were Young

At the turn of the twentieth century, Chinese nation was fully beated by class contradiction and national contradiction, which put the country on the edge of collapse. Young Mao Tse-tung experienced the change of society. After his turning from idealism,reformism,Utopian socialism to Marxism ,with which he led the Chinese people to make the biggest reformation and revolution come true , which not only changed the disgraceful destiny of Chinese nation, but also changed the thoughts and culture ideologies to which Chinese people had been adhering for thousands of years , including the change of educational Ethics thoughts.Mao's Educational Ethics Thought is far from being empty wordplay. First, the value direction of traditional culture in China is its earliest foundation; Second, the spirit of regional culture and Huxiang Culture is its direct source; Third, the east and west educational Ethics thoughts in recent times give a light on its formation; Most important of all,his schooling in the old-style private school and Hunan First Normal College and his teaching activities in organizing Student Union and night school are its practical base.Though the thought is not a perfect system, we can deduce the relatively full organ:"Origin"is its ideological foundation;"Transforming nationality and reforming society"is its value object;"Mahatma"and"the new people"are its value subject;"The fact of life"is the origin and aim of the value realization . These suggest the culture character of Mao's , which not only has the obvious clue of tradition , but also rich in modernization , which is not only idealistic and romantic , but also not short of facts , which is not only articulate and ideological , but also based on practice and conducting practice.Young Mao Tse-tung is an ordinary man with general words, so his thought had little effect at that time, but when he became a leader and led Chinese revolution and construction, the thought had great and deep effect on himself and Chinese education. From the track of history, Young Mao Tse-tung`s Educational Ethics Thought is the logic start of his Educational Ethics Thought and the underlying current of his educational ethics opinion. So it has two-side effect on educational ethics of China-characterized socialism. Realistically speaking, it demands the educational ideology adhere to Marxism and its recent achievement,Humanism,Justice and so on,by exploring his thought which has defects as well as merits, by having a look back on the Party's educational ethics.