The Enlightenment Of Tao Te King’s Moral Education To The Moral Education Reform In Primary Schools

People’s ideology,behavior,values and goals have diversified in the wake of the development of socialist market economy.At the same time,People has reached an unprecedented fickleness.So the moral education in primary school is facing more and more challenges now.At present,the primary moral education still has many problems.The reasons why the development of moral education comes to a standstill are about teachers,family and schools.Apparently,it’s imperative to build a rational,scientific and efficient reform in primary moral education.It is under such background that I selected Tao Te King as the topic of this research.This paper tries to explore the moral education thoughts in Tao Te King,hoping to provide some references and enlightenment for the reform in primary school’s moral education.This paper is mainly divided into five parts.The introduction part mainly expatiates the background and significance of this thesis.The research methods and innovations are pointed out,too.The first chapter summarizes the relevant research status both at home and abroad.The second chapter can be divided into three sections,the first of which analyzes the main problems existing in primary moral education,and the latter of which dissects their causes.The third chapter outlines the moral education thought in Tao Te King,which can be summarized as respecting the Tao and respecting morality,being pure and governing by doing nothing.The fourth chapter concludes some prominent features in Lao Tzu’s thought.The final part emphasizes on the enlightenment of Tao Te King on contemporary reform in primary school’s moral education."Imitation of Nature" and "Affirming the value of human life" act as the two main methods of Lao Tzu’s moral education.He advocates letting individual act in accordance with the natural law and embrace simplicity.Under the combination of Lao Tzu’s moral education thought and the life education,it’s possible to carry out the primary theme activities of life education.So it’s beneficial for realizing the scientific development of primary moral education.