Mencius Moral Education Thought And Its Modern Inspiration

China’s society,at the present stage of transition, is faced with comedown in belief and unbalance in morality, which demand urgent moral reconstruction.With the development of our socialist construction and improvement of the people’s material life, the socialist moral education is becoming more and more important.As an important part of the Chinese traditional culture,the moral education has a great influence on the Chinese society and history. The Chinese nation usually have the fine moral tradition, Chinese traditional moral civilization contains splendid resources for the modern society to study and utilize. We can inherit,develop and study Mencius moral education thought. It’s of great practical significance to build a socialist morality education system which agrees with our national reality.Thus the goal of this article which studies Mencius moral education thought is to excavate the valuable things in the Mencius moral education to serve with the contemporary society.The philosophy foundation of Mencius moral education thought is human nature. The Mencius moral education thought can divided into two parts---- the personal moral building and the social moral building. Individual angle is discussed from growing the soul intentionally, engaging in self-examination,raising the noble spirit three aspects.The goal of the Mencius moral education thought is understanding human relations. It include the school education and the environment impact. Mencius’ s these methods principles have the positive significance on our moral construction,we must positively study and critically inherit these methods.We have made great achievement in comtemporary Chinese moral education,but there are still some problems. For example,we ignore students’ personality. We lack of good moral environment. Our moral education content lack of hierarchy. Our moral education lack of mental health education. Thus,it should be extremely feasible approach to contemporary moral construction by embracing our glorious moral traditions and tapping resources from Mencius moral education thought.There are many positive reference meanings of Mencius moral education thought to current moral education. Include reshaping the moral belief, emphasizing the moral self-discipline, establishing hierarchical moral goals, building a good social environmeng,conducting lifelong moral cultivation,culturing a rational and calm mentality. In addition,we can see the implications of Mencius moral education thought from the aspects of safeguarding moral construction with the legal system,strengthening social moral awareness.