The Moral Education Of Filial Piety

The moral education of filial piety is very important that can not be evasive in present moral education. In view of the exiting situation that the moral education of filial piety is always carried out in family, this thesis points out the moral education of filial piety should be carried out in school. With a comprehensive understanding of filial piety and morality, this paper considers the teenagers to be the object of moral education of filial piety in school. It also tries to explain what school "should do" and "can do" in moral education of filial piety.Filial piety and morality, whose core connotation is to show one's filial obedience to his parents, contains human being's ultimate pursue on his generation, which can be shown in its original meaning, including giving births, carrying on ancestral line. The essence of it lies in loving and respecting one's parents. The conducts of it represents in supporting one's parents in both material and mental in the daily life. During the historical developing process, the traditional filial piety and morality has numerous and complicated attributes where feudalization and civilization, quintessence and scum co-exist. And the quintessence of it still has great value in modem society, such as moral value, political value and philosophical value.General speaking, the teenagers' filial piety and morality can be formed in their family and school. Among the rest, the bases of filial piety and morality can be cultivated in the family, such as love, owes and presenting a tribute to parents. That's to say, the process of raising and educating in the family is the process of establishingthe foundation of filial piety and morality. The moral education of filial piety in school should focus on developing the teenagers' moral abilities. To the teenagers, the abilities to fulfill filial piety are to learn to study and to gain the ability of learning. So, from this viewpoint, all the moral efforts made by school education are benefit for cultivating the teenagers' moral abilities. In school, all the study of teenagers is for establishing the foundation for them to fulfill filial piety and morality in future.This thesis is divided into three parts. The first part is the introduction of the whole. It introduces some relative background and methods of this research.The next part explores the meaning, attribute, conduct and value of filial piety and morality from a historical and comprehensive angle. And from the teenagers' viewpoint, it discusses how to establish the foundation of their filial piety and morality. With the respect of the ability of filial piety and morality, it points out what school "should do" and "can do" in moral education of filial piety. And it considers the excellent school education is the process of moral education of filial piety.The last part is the conclusion part, which states, to the school, the moral education of filial piety should focus on cultivating the teenagers' abilities to fulfill filial piety and morality. Seeing that there are still many problems, the research needs an in-depth study.