The Ethical Responsibility Of Chinese Primary And Middle School Teachers

An old Chinese saying goes as "teachers are supposed to impart knowledge, give instructions and help settle puzzles." With the arrival of knowledge economy and updated educational concepts, nations all over the world come to reform fundamental education so as to adapt to the ever changing society. In the practice of primary and secondary education, both the increase in individualism and rebelling of the students and enthusiastic imitation of personal styles and behaviors offer new challenges for current teaching. Carrying out all-round education requires traditional educational models to be reformed. It is extremely important for the teachers in primary and secondary schools to take on corresponding ethical responsibilities to carry on fundamental education in the new era, which is of equal importance and values theoretically and practically.Ethical responsibilities, one of the most important moralities and conformity, are of important social values to keep social orders, enhance individual's virtues and settle occupational puzzles. Primary and secondary schoolings are important stages for a person to form outlooks to the world, to the life and to form values. Teachers' good performance in taking on ethical responsibilities may avoid some unmoral accidents to help develop the youngsters' growth. In this case the paper makes an attempt to probe into the issues such as theoretical grounds, real life demands and rubrics as well as social values and ways for teacher's ethical responsibilities.The first section of this paper discusses the connotations and characteristics of ethical responsibilities on the staff in primary and secondary schools by means of combining the mediocre principles of ethical responsibilities and characteristics of the staff in primary ad secondary schools, and clarifies the teachers' ethical responsibilities, which are to impart cultural and scientific knowledge, train people into qualified professionals and be responsible for the corresponding consequences in the teaching and educating, which must be in accordance with the interest-based objective relationships in the educational process. It deserves the features of extensiveness and practicability.The ethics of primary and secondary education, as special manifestations of real world social ethical responsibilities needs supporting grounds in human moralities and ethics. The second section of the paper touches upon the relationships between freedom and necessity, morality and conscience, virtues and happiness and ethical responsibilities with the purpose of providing grounds for building the ethical responsibilities for the staff in primary and secondary schools.The third part goes deeper in defining the social necessity of building the ethical...