China's moral education tradition has the value orientation of attaching importance to ethics. It pays attention to the harmony of human order and encourages moral self-transcendence. Its highest principle is benevolence. The traditional value orientation of western moral education is based on jurisprudence and focuses on the lower limit of human behavior, and its highest principle is justice. China people are convinced that the source of value lies in their hearts, fully believe in people's moral consciousness, and realize the moral ideal of becoming a saint through self-seeking. Westerners believe that people have original sin, just looking for the source of value outside, washing their sins and purifying their souls by accepting God's instructions and commandments.

1. Conceptual differences in moral education

Moral education in the west mainly refers to moral education, while in China, it is only a kind of moral education in a narrow sense, and moral education in a broad sense includes moral education, political education, ideological education, and even psychological education and legal education.

2. Differences in moral education content

The emphasis of moral education in Chinese and western schools is different. China attaches importance to family ethics education, while the west attaches importance to social moral education.

3. Differences in moral education methods

Our country attaches importance to imparting systematic moral knowledge and cultivating students' moral behavior habits, and often uses persuasion education, example demonstration, emotional training, practical exercise, self-cultivation guidance and other methods; The west pays more attention to the cultivation of students' moral thinking ability and moral sensitivity, and advocates moral discussion, case study, role-playing and value clarification.