Liang Qichao's Theories Of Cultivating Citizens And Its Enlightenments To Our Citizen Education

Liang Qichao has been regarded as the first figure initiating the nationalism.In modern history, he also is a politician who proposes to learn from the west countries. In order to rescue the crisis of national genocide, Liang Qichao advices to renew nation and cultivate new citizens. In times of national crisis, he analyses the causes of our failure and writes the theories of cultivating citizens. His theory has great influence on our society and citizens'thoughts. Liang Qichao not only promotes the growth of national consciousness, also rejuvenates our education in patriotism.In the theories of cultivating citizens, Liang Qichao respectively expounds the relationship between subject and state, rights and duties, individual and group, private and public virtues. The characteristic features that Liang Qichao demands citizen to achieve are the core of our Citizenship Education. Consequently, we can gain a great deal of enlightenments from Liang Qichao's thought of cultivating citizens.Cultivating citizens that Liang Qichao once discussed is the key to solving Chinese problem of comedown gradually. Citizen being the most important parts of state, we must improve the comprehensive qualities of a generation citizens before propelling the society forward. Similarly, we must remould citizens'ideology before to establish a socialist democracy and develope grassroots democracy. Without citizen, we cannot do anything about society, much less politics. Consequently, we have to attach great importance to citizen education. Based on analysing Liang Qichao's thought and theory, this paper comments several enlightenments to our citizen education that Liang Qichao's thought of cultivating citizens brings to.