The Enlightenment Of Tao Xingzhi’s Life Moral Education Thought To The Life-oriented Moral Education In Colleges

Tao Xingzhi is a famous educator, educational reform practitioner as well as moral thinker in modern China. He devotes all his lifetime to make effort on China’s education. In an extremely difficult environment,he creates a lot of wealthy educational ideas and theories for the world.Among those, Life Moral thinking is an important element; its abundant and rich theoretical foundations play an important part of life education theory and through, and earn much attention and in-depth research of scholars.Life Moral Thought of Tao is combined with the current international and domestic background in arduous revolutionary environment from the objective reality of Chinese society. In the basis of critically inheriting Chinese traditional moral ideology and learning and innovating Dewey and other Western educators on educational thought, it go through germination, the formation, development and maturity with a long-term exploration education and teaching practice, and gradually develop into a unique moral education system. Life Moral Thought of Tao pursuit of a truth that learn "live person" as a target, and regard teach-learn-do, know-feel-say and tell-instruct as the basic principle. It will aspects love education, personality education and discipline education as the main content of moral life. At last, it is to achieve training moral goal of "real person" through the collective life, student government, teachers and group meditation and other methods.Currently, the Life-oriented Moral Education in College has becomea new trend, and has made some progress; the state has issued related policy documents to show the importance of it; besides that, many colleges and universities also take concrete steps to implement the concept of the Life-oriented Moral Education. However, there are still many problems in practice, among which the main ones are that the utilitarian tendency for moral education goal is evident, the moral content deviates from real life, the lack of flexibility of moral education methods,the moral evaluation system is not scientific and whole. To study Tao Xingzhi’s life moral education, to dig the specific revelation of his thoughts on the life-oriented moral education in colleges, to learn its approaches and experience of life-oriented moral education, to adhere to the goal of fostering “real person” with all-round development of moral education, to base on the real life and emphasize the life-oriented side of the content of moral education, to innovate methods of moral education to strengthen the efficiency of moral education, and to actively create a harmonious living environment for moral education are good to promote the change and development of the life-oriented moral education in colleges and universities and to form a new situation, and to improve the effectiveness of moral education.