The Contemporary Significance Of CaiYuanpei’s Citizens Moral Education Thought

There are many outstanding person created by the modern China, with the most changeful and complexed background. Cai Yuanpei as one of them, he try his best to pursuit the light and progress, he always stand in front of the times, he is a ideological pioneer in China’s modern history,he made great contribution to the development of modern china. Cai Yuanpei’s ethical thought is a sense of milepost type in Chinese history of ethics, his citizen’s moral education thought is of epoch-making significance. Cai Yuanpei was the first to advocate Chinese citizen imoral education, he was the first to put forward and pushing the civic and moral education, his theory rooted in traditional Chinese culture and absorb the essence of western culture, mastery, his theory is a bold attempt on Modern Chinese citizen moral education, he established the "liberty, equality, fraternity" as content of the civic and moral education clearly, and he combine this with Confucianism’s "benevolence, righteousness, forgiveness",It realize the combination of civic and moral education content modernization and localization. he establish the "five educations" as the core of civic and moral education, and he consider the "five educations" run hrough the family, occupation, social and moral education, he proposed the "national citizen education" and "personality cultivation", and he emphasize with moral, wisdom, body, beauty education harmonious development as the center of the healthy personality education. He push on educational practice actively.and he promote to cultivate oneself, do labor practices and aesthetic as a way for civic and moral education.Cai Yuanpei’s moral education thought not only has a profound impact on China’s modern development, but also has a great significance to the contemporary moral education. So, this paper will through the source of Cai Yuanpei’s thought of civic and moral education, analysis the background and forming condition, summarize Cai Yuanpei’s moral education content and means,then we will analyze its limitation and find out the enlightenment of Cai Yuanpei s thought of civic and moral education in our country, I hope to make a suggestions on China’s current moral education construction.