Research On Russell’s Children Character Education Theory

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) is a world-renowned British philosopher, mathematician, logician, social thinker and social activist in20th century, Nobel Literature Prize winner, and he is one of the representatives of the new education movement in British in20th century, during the First World War, he begin to pay close attention to education problem, in the education process of their children, he summarized very detailed thought of children’s character education, and this thought was concentrated in his book " Education and the Good life""a book. He puts forward "character education must be suitable for birth","we should cultivate ideal character as our education purpose",this an unique character education theory has important practical significance to our current children’s character education research.At present, our children’s character education from the family education to school education, and so on from the concept of character education to the way of character education are to be further strengthened.The research on children’s character education of Russell is benefits for improving present situation of china children character education.This paper used the method of the literature, the history to research the Russell children’s character education, on the basis of researching in Russell writings and researching in other’s research result.It elaborated on the background of the times and theoretical origin of the Russell children’s character education thought, diged the purpose of the Russell children’s character education, content and principles, and focued in-depth excavation in several aspects of the Russell children’s character education, dugging out of its most valuable specific operational methods of character education, enriching our children’s character education theory. It correctly understanded and evaluate the forward-looking, and deficiencies of the Russell children’s education ideas, absorbing its essence, and put forward some effective response for our children character education problems.