On March 8, member He, who spoke on behalf of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the All-China Youth Federation, said in his speech at the CPPCC meeting that it should not be ignored that some teenagers have problems such as vague values, insufficient moral cultivation and lack of social skills to varying degrees; It is suggested that the whole society should share the responsibility of social education, and carry out theme education activities such as "world outlook, outlook on life and values" and "love the motherland, love the people and love the Chinese nation" among teenagers.
As soon as I heard that the key words of these "theme education activities" are all old tunes that have existed for a long time, I felt in my heart that the string of "outlook" and "love" was not as comprehensive as the word "civic education".
A country and a nation should be respected, and its cornerstone is citizens with rationality, wisdom, free thinking and independent spirit.
Citizens are responsible for themselves and others, and respect their own rights and the rights of others. Only citizens can become civilized people. Otherwise, people are subjects, people are ignorant, people are mobs, and interests are unruly.
If faced with the law, it is easy to become an "arrogant" and self-righteous fool. As far as teenagers are concerned, if they lack civic awareness and legal awareness education, it is very easy to "follow good advice"-an educated person is often difficult to learn well and easy to learn badly because of his lack of experience. The ultimate responsibility here lies with adults, while minors have become victims of "tireless" education. No wonder there is a joke saying: "The furthest distance in the world is that everyone is surnamed Li, one is Ang Lee and the other is Li Shuangjiang;" One created the' Juvenile School' and the other created the' Juvenile Offender'. "
Education is related to a person's future, and also to the future of a country and a nation. We should achieve human civilization and social civilization through civic education.
At the two sessions, many deputies talked about education. Commissioner Zhu Yongxin said that education equity is the foundation of social equity, and "good education" is an education that satisfies the people, so we should pay more attention to fairness and the quality of education. Deputy Chen Jun said that the impetuous atmosphere of quick success and instant benefit in higher education has emerged, which has led universities to pay more attention to scientific research than teaching, and teachers to pay more attention to papers than educating people. At present, it is urgent to return to the way of university, stick to the foundation of university and reshape the soul of university; The representative of Zhang Zhiyong said very directly: "Under the examination-oriented education system, everyone is a victim. We can no longer let exam-oriented education harm the whole nation! "
These views are all correct, but unfortunately, no one mentioned the importance and urgency of "civic education". Fortunately, Zhou Mingwei, member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and director of the Chinese Foreign Languages Bureau, talked about "national education". He said that the words and deeds, education level and moral level of the people are the real soft power of the country in a certain sense; China's citizen quality and public moral education are incompatible with the rapid development of reform and opening up for more than 30 years; To shape the national image, we must attach importance to national education.
In my opinion, the core of national education is civic education. Without the core of "civic education", "national education" will become a hollow old tree.