On The Moral Education In Schools Target

The orientation of moral education's objective is defined as the selected core item among numerous objectives and demands of moral education, chosen for some certain purpose. Through theoretical and practical research, this core objective can largely guide other objectives and, therefore, the directing function of moral education's objectives can be successfully realized finally. Based on this core-secondary objective system and assisted by a series of practically educational measures, the moral education will be able to exert a strongly systematic influence on students and then the development of students' character can be essentially consistent with the demands of society.According to the Theory of Moral Development by Kohlberg, every student's moral cognition, such as logical cognition, social cognition and the views on social morality, would be able to improve along with the rise in the level of school education. At the same time, the theory of critical periods, based on the behavior of imprinting discovered by Lorenz, concluded that during the process of people's growing up, there was a critical period most suitable for studying and establishing some certain behavior. If the normal development suffered in this period, the obstacle to the improvement of the future would occur, and even not be able to be overcome sometimes. Undoubtedly, the above theories have great directive significance for setting objective of moral education.Based on Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development and Lorenz's studies of critical periods, this paper suggests that a detailed operable pattern of moral education for students could be established by setting different objectives of moral education for different education periods, from primary to higher level, in our education system. Firstly, the orientation of the objective in primary school is to make students socialized through moral education. That is a period of formation. Secondly, through moral education in high school, the student should be further changed into a qualified citizen who is politically meaningful to society. Then, at college and university, the objective of moral education should be directed towards liberal arts education that develops general knowledge and ability to think, making students mentally liberal.