First, honesty is the premise of teachers' personality. Han Yu, a writer and educator in the Tang Dynasty, famously said: A teacher is a teacher, so he preaches, teaches and dispels doubts. He regards preaching as the primary task of teachers. However, if teachers want to educate people through preaching, they must first cultivate their own self-cultivation, be noble in thought and morality, and be clear and honest, so as to teach students by example. As written in the Book of Rites, teachers should be strict, then respectful, and then people should know and respect learning. Only in this way can teachers have the personality charm of being a model. Only in this way can teachers be established, people can be taught to be true, kind and beautiful, and students and people in society can learn from them with respect.
Second, honesty is the new requirement of society and people for teachers. Because education is to educate future generations with advanced ideas, knowledge and technology accumulated by human beings, inherit human civilization and continue and develop human history and culture. Therefore, people are particularly cautious when choosing and determining teachers, and they must choose those who are virtuous, well-behaved and knowledgeable. It is precisely because these candidates stand out from the crowd that they can become teachers. However, in private ownership society, teachers' political status and social status are not high, and they have no right and opportunity to be greedy, occupy and seek personal gain through teaching. In socialist society, the social status of teachers has been greatly improved. Teachers are not only the masters of society, but also a part of the proletariat with knowledge. Especially in the current tide of market economy, money worship, hedonism, egoism and other decadent ideas invade teachers, and money worship is everywhere, and the phenomenon of teaching for personal gain occurs from time to time among some teachers. Individual teachers always consider personal gains and losses everywhere, and always want to scratch when they have the opportunity. Can such a teacher, no matter how knowledgeable, serve as a role model for students? To this end, the party and the people use the new professional ethics requirement of honesty to regulate teachers' behavior.
Third, honesty is the moral basis of teacher education. The purpose of teachers' teaching and educating people is to cultivate talents for the society, and to educate and guide the broad masses of young students' outlook on life, world outlook, values and morality towards the talents needed by all classes. Traditionally, the standards of talents include morality and talent, and the ruling class in all societies regards morality as the primary standard of talents. The proletariat will regard ideals, morality, education and discipline as the standards of talents. The basic problem in Germany and China is interest, that is, how to treat and deal with the conflict between personal interests and the interests of others and society? . When a person is honest and selfless and always serves the interests of others, the collective interests and the social interests, his moral quality must be excellent and noble; On the contrary, if a person always acts for personal gain, greed and the interests of the collective, society and others, then his moral quality will be ugly and despicable. The former is characterized by honesty. The four innovations cultivated by people's teachers are a group of successors who are honest and dedicated to society and people's interests. Teachers' honesty is conducive to cultivating students' selfless dedication.