Academic Forum -3 1 1- On the Role of Empathy in Education Cui Ying (07 105 1 Baoding Electric Power Vocational and Technical College, Baoding, Hebei) Abstract: Empathy is considered by humanistic psychologists to be the most critical characteristic affecting the educational process and effect. As the guide of students, teachers must have the educational characteristics of empathy if they really want to establish a good relationship with students, go deep into their hearts, help and guide students. Keywords: teachers; Educational characteristics; Empathy has many different translations in Chinese, such as empathy, empathy, empathy, understanding, putting yourself in the other's shoes, etc. Its meaning refers to a personality trait that can put yourself in others' shoes and understand others' emotions, needs and intentions. Empathy is both an attitude and an ability. As an attitude, it shows a concern, acceptance, understanding, cherish and respect for others; As an ability, it can fully understand other people's minds and express this understanding in a caring, warm and respectful way. I. Significance of Empathy to Teacher Education Empathy is an important educational characteristic of teachers, mainly because people with empathy can personally feel the needs and distress of others and provide support and help to others in an appropriate and respectful way when necessary. Therefore, it is very conducive to establishing a good relationship between teachers and students. One of people's basic needs is to be understood by others, and it is this understanding that forms the basis of establishing relationships. In education, establishing a good relationship between teachers and students can promote understanding between teachers and students, reduce contradictions and conflicts between teachers and students, and make students feel encouraged and supported, which is conducive to their growth. Understanding students' needs, emotions, environment or situation is the most basic element to ensure the effectiveness of teachers' work. Lack of empathy can easily lead to obstacles in the relationship between teachers and students, which are manifested as: students are disappointed. Think that teachers don't understand and care, so they will feel disappointed, reduce or even stop self-expression. Students feel hurt. Because the teacher does not enter the students' reference system, but bases himself too much, it is difficult for him to really understand the students' problems, and sometimes he shows impatience, disgust and even criticism, which will make the students feel hurt. Due to the lack of empathy, teachers can't really understand students' problems and needs, so their responses are often not targeted. The significance of empathy in education mainly lies in: educators can put themselves in the students' shoes, so as to grasp relevant information more accurately; Students will feel accepted and understood, so they will feel happy and satisfied, which will have a positive impact on the relationship between teachers and students; It promotes students' self-expression and self-exploration, thus achieving more self-understanding and deeper communication between teachers and students; For those students who urgently need to understand, care and talk about their feelings, empathy has a more obvious educational effect. Therefore, empathy is the seed of harmony, the lubricant of teachers and students' emotions, and the core personality traits and educational ability of teachers. The enhancement of "empathy" will promote the communication between teachers and students and promote the establishment and development of good teacher-student relationship. Second, the cultivation of teachers' empathy ability. Empathy can be divided into trait empathy and state empathy, that is, spontaneous empathy and learning conscious empathy. spontaneous ...