“班级是我家”的公德教育隐忧及超越

The Public Moral Education's Worries behind “Class is Home” and Its Transcendence

中国教育中"重私德、轻公德"的传统已经越来越无法满足社会日益走向公共生活的现实需要。虽然学校已经逐渐认识到公德教育的必要,并在德育中加强公德教育的内容,但囿于对公德教育内涵理解上的局限,在实践中往往演变成狭隘的、功利的"公德教育",掉入"群体之私"陷阱,造成公德教育的异化,甚至走向公德的反面。因此,厘清私德与公德的分野,警惕人性的群体属性中维护"熟人圈"利益的负面影响,以一种真正的公共精神实现对"群体之私"的超越,成为学校公德教育取得实效的关键。

More attention was paid on social morality than private morality in China. But this traditional education has already been incapable of meeting the need of the approaching public life. Though the importance of public moral education has been aware of and carried out in some schools,it is always alienated in practice owing to the limitation on the understanding of public morality. One of the manifestations is that public morality is easy to slip to the selfishness of the group,which goes over to its opposite. Accordingly,the most important thing to improve the effect of the public moral education is to clarify the difference between the private and public morality,guard on the negative effects on the group attribute in humanity which inclines to maintain the group interests,and make the public spirit go beyond the group selfishness.