Research On The Enlightment Of Cai Yuanpei's Citizen Moral Thoughts To Ideological And Political Education In Universities

Cai Yuanpei,called “a renowned master in the academic circle and a model for the world” by Mao Zedong,is a famous educator in modern China with extremely rich educational thoughts and a profound influence on modern Chinese educational thoughts.Cai Yuanpei whose thoughts of citizen's moral education has important significance for universities' ideological and political education,devoted his life to the reform of education in modern China and made great contributions to the education of modern China.This article takes the revelation Cai Yuanpei's thoughts of citizen's moral education have made for the ideological and political education in colleges and universities as the research topic.With the method of literature research,comparative analysis,historical analysis,realistic analysis and others,it researches Cai Yuanpei's citizen's moral education from the perspective of ideological and political education.Firstly,it discusses the forming background and theoretical source of Cai Yuanpei's theory of citizen's moral education as well as the internal relations between Cai Yuanpei's citizen's moral education and ideological and political education in college and universities in order to provide a basis for studying the combination of them.Secondly,it shows the integral grasp of Cai Yuanpei's thoughts of citizen's moral education thorough the comprehensive analyzing and summarizing from the aspects of objectives,contents and ways of realizing.With a compatible and inclusive attitude,Cai Yuanpei,mastering both Chinese and Western culture by absorbing the essence of traditional Confucianism and learning modern western advanced culture,put forward the content of “freedom,equality,fraternity” and citizen's moral education by means of self-education,labor practice,and educating five domains simultaneously and tried to achieve the goal of cultivating complete personality and promote social progress through civic moral education,and finally realizes the goal of saving the nation by citizen's moral education.Thirdly,it objectively evaluates Cai Yuanpei's citizen's moral education,pointing out its limitations and progressiveness.Finally,from the combination of Cai Yuanpei's moral education and ideological and political education in college and universities,this article discusses the revolution his thoughts have made for the ideological and political education in colleges and universities.First,civic moral education should be valued,putting citizen moral education at the top of the advanced cultural construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics for the new era and running the concept of “People Oriented” at the same time,and be incorporated civic into the construction of ideological and political education in colleges and universities.Second,the content of ideological and political education in colleges and universities should be enriched by innovating traditional culture,absorbing the essence of multiculturalism,and combining practice with theory.Third,attentions should be paid to the subjective status of students,taking the initiative of students,strengthening the effect of ideological and political education through introspective learning methods,and promoting the all-round development of students in the form of educating five domains simultaneously in order to shape the full personality of students.