Yang Changji’s Moral Education Thought And Its Contemporary Enlightenment

Yang Changji was a famous educator and ethicist in modern China,especially for the moral education aspect has a very deep research.Yang Changji’s moral education thought integrates the essence of the traditional Chinese education and the western educational thought,thus forming his own unique educational concept.On the one hand,it inherits the moral cultivation thought of Neo-Confucianism of the Song and Ming Dynasties and Huxiang culture;on the other hand,it integrates the progressive politics,philosophy and ethics theory of Western learning.Yang Changji had a profound influence on Mao Zedong with his profound knowledge and patriotic and democratic thoughts.As a matter of fact,among the Yang Changji’s students at that time,Mao Zedong was not the only one deeply influenced by Yang Changji.A group of proletarian leaders and outstanding soldiers such as Cai Hesen,Deng Zhongxia and He Shuheng were all deeply influenced by Yang Changji’s thought,morality and knowledge.Yang Changji attaches great importance to moral education in both theory and practice.He advocated putting moral education in the central position,and emphasized the all-round development of morality,intelligence and physique,and described the importance of aesthetic education in cultivating moral sentiment.Yang Changji stressed the importance of moral education for the transformation of human society,insisted on infecting students with correct political beliefs and noble moral charm,encouraging students to be a good person beneficial to the society,which also reflects his patriotism and democratic education thought.Yang Changji advocated that while emphasizing that individuals should take responsibility for the country,society and family,they should also pay attention to cultivating personal independent consciousness and protecting their personal interests.His unique moral education concept provides some enlightenment and practical significance for the ideological and political education of contemporary college students.Including the introduction,the text and the conclusion,the full text is divided into six parts for research:The first chapter mainly clarifies the research purpose and significance,research status,research method,innovation and shortcomings of this paper.The second chapter sorts out the historical background and ideological origin of Yang Changji’s moral education thought.The third chapter sorts out the system of Yang Changji’s moral education thought.It mainly includes three parts: the goal of Yang Changji moral education,the content of Yang Changji moral education,and the third is the implementation method of Yang Changji moral education.The fourth chapter analyzes the positive effect and limitation of Yang Changji’s moral education thought.The positive effect includes three aspects: one is to cultivate students to form patriotic thought,the second is to cultivate students to form personality independent thought,the third is to cultivate students to form practical pragmatic spirit.The limitations can be divided into two aspects: one is the incompleteness of the ideas,and the other is the theoretical bias towards idealism.The fifth chapter is the enlightenment of Yang Changji’s moral education thought to the ideological and political education of contemporary college students.First,the pursuit of effectiveness,two is to pay attention to scientific,three is to highlight the integrity.The sixth part concludes that the ideas of contemporary college students are in a critical period of formation,and the ideological and political education should keep pace with The Times and pay attention to effectiveness,science and integrity.We can be inspired by Yang Changji’s moral education thought and contribute to the development of ideological and political education of contemporary college students.