In recent years, China's educational circles generally advocate encouraging education and appreciating education, emphasizing that parents and teachers should talk to their children with an equal attitude, respect their children and create a relaxed and free atmosphere for them. But does encouragement and appreciation mean that you can't criticize? The student made a serious mistake. What should I do with him?

Educators began to think, does education have the right to punish? What is the scope of punishment? Who will judge this punishment? A series of question marks are in front of us. Healthy education needs a perfect early warning and punishment mechanism for students' growth deviation, because growing students can't be error-free. The wrong attitude of educational environment towards students will directly affect students' judgment and choice of right and wrong, moral and immoral standards, and directly affect the establishment of students' personality taste. Suhomlinski pointed out in "Conversation with Young Principals": "The task of educators is not only to inspire children's confidence and self-esteem, but also to take an uncompromising attitude towards all wrong things that grow in students' hearts. "If you love students, you should be responsible for their lifelong development. Schools and teachers have the obligation to give appropriate criticism and punishment to bad habits, wrong words and deeds that hinder the formation of students' healthy personality, and even bad behaviors that violate social morality and even touch the criminal law.

But criticism and punishment are not equal to corporal punishment. Punishment is a conventional means of education, a compulsory corrective action against students' problem behaviors, and an educational measure taken on the premise that students' body and mind can fully bear it, which can play an educational and warning role for students; Corporal punishment is that individual educators cause serious physical and mental harm to students who violate discipline, which is against ethics. Therefore, the principle and function of punishment education itself is an indispensable means of education.

First, the role and shortcomings of appreciation education

At present, primary and secondary schools generally advocate "appreciation" education and think that good children are "boasted". American psychologist Whip James famously said, "The deepest principle of human nature is to hope others appreciate you." . The so-called appreciation means fully affirming students and constantly cultivating their self-esteem and self-confidence through psychological suggestion, so that they not only have the confidence to make progress, but also have the motivation to make progress. Therefore, in education, appreciation education has its unique position and function: