Moral education, that is, ideological and moral education, is a process in which educators cultivate the expected political quality, ideological quality, moral quality and legal quality of the educated purposefully, planned and organized according to certain social requirements and the laws of the physical and mental development of the educated, and promote them to become qualified members of society. ?
The connotation of moral education is divided into broad sense and narrow sense. Moral education in a broad sense refers to all activities that have a purposeful and planned impact on social members politically, ideologically and morally, including social moral education, community moral education, school moral education and family moral education. Moral education in a narrow sense refers to school moral education.
Basic morality is the basic moral requirement of individual life. Basic morality is often passed down from history and widely accepted by human society.
The basis of moral education is to teach students to learn to be human, so fairness, integrity, honesty, courage, kindness, love of labor, hard work and simplicity should be the basic contents of moral education in primary and secondary schools. In the aspect of basic moral education, scholars once had a far-left thought, denying the historical inheritance of morality and the commonality of all mankind with the times, class and nationality of morality.
The result is the disappearance of basic moral feelings and the loss of the most basic moral norms. An extreme example is that during the Cultural Revolution, criminal acts such as beating, smashing and looting became moral "just" actions. This historical lesson must not be easily forgotten in today's moral education practice.
Educating students and cultivating their civilized behavior habits is also one of the important contents of school moral education. Students should abide by the rules of civilized behavior in schools, families and public places. The content of civilized behavior is very extensive, involving all aspects of people's lives. It seems like a trivial matter, but it is a sign or expression of an educated person's cultural accomplishment and spiritual connotation.
Of course, civilized behavior is not only the external expression of a person's behavior, but also the important thing is that these external behaviors should reflect the characteristics of a person's inner mind or personality. Otherwise, some people have learned to be "polite" and well-dressed, giving people a very "educated" impression, but in fact they may still be hypocritical, narrow-minded, selfish and rude. Therefore, civilized behavior education should be combined with personal spiritual cultivation.
Pupils' Student Code and Pupils' Daily Code of Conduct are the codes of conduct that pupils must abide by. It is the basic requirement for students to carry out moral quality education such as civilized behavior, and schools should educate students to follow it persistently and strictly. It is the most important content of moral education in primary schools to educate primary school students on basic morality and behavior norms.