| As a president of Peking University with the longest tenure, Chiang Monlin assisted Cai Yuanpei in governing Peking University and then presided over Peking University for 17 years. During this period, Chiang Monlin transformed Peking University from a bureaucracy as Cai Yuanpei’s words to a world-known comprehensive university and cultivated a multitude of talented person for the nation.Certainly, it’s worth studying Chiang Monlin’s unique valuable thought and experience in personnel training. With a study of Chinese and western based on its unique experience and the professional education doctor background, Chiang Monlin has some specialized principles about moral education in his doctoral dissertation and own a set of ideological system. All of this laid a theoretical foundation for the latter formation of personality education and civilian education thought and also make it has a stronger theory and practical significance in the moral education practice in Peking University.This article provides detailed interpretation of Chiang Monlin’s moral education.And found that he has studied about educational principle, moral education principle,morality psychology and moral education sociology with a foothold on his knowledge about Chinese and occidental education. Chiang Monlin thought moral knowledge is the initial point of moral behavior and willpower is the base of moral behavior. According to his study of ancient moral system, there are three types of moral behavior method:accumulative method, method of “holding the fundamentals”and reflective method.Thus, there are three corresponding stages to cultivate moral behavior. The first stage is the formation of Wang Mingyang’s reflective method, the second stage is the formation of Lu Xiangshan’s method of “holding the fundamentals” and the third stage is the formation of Zhu Zi’s accumulative method. In addition, his study indicates that the reestablishment of moral ideal is not only built on human rational force, but also builton social condition of human life. His research results reveal at that time in China, since life condition has been changed, the reestablished moral system must be adapted to the change. In order to meet the requirement of modern individualism, industrialism and nationalism, every person must be cultivated as a citizen, who could initiative think and behave and have the consciousness to cooperate and collaborate with each other.Just because of above moral education thought, Chiang Monlin could take action on his reformation and practice in Peking University. His moral education thoughts include cultivating perfect personage, save the nation by academic endeavors, citizen training, cultivating spirit and responsibility about student self-government and so on.And he had formulated correlative system and measurement in Peking University to practice these thoughts.Chiang monlin’s doctoral thesis <A Study in Chinese Principles of Education>Based on the fusion of Chinese and western culture put forward that we should pay attention to the individual rationality and consciously, emphasizes the moral practice of“knowing is doing” and according to the development of the society changes, grasp the civilization and progress of moral value standard still has a guiding significance to today’s moral education. And his educational practice that formed in the Peking University such as cultivating healthy personality, save the nation by academic endeavors, social improvement and student self-government has a profound enlightenment to today’s college moral education. |
