Both in ancient China and Western countries educators emphasized cultivation of students’emotions, personalityand character, among whom Confucius, the great Chinese thinker and educator and Locke, the famous Britishp...Both in ancient China and Western countries educators emphasized cultivation of students’emotions, personalityand character, among whom Confucius, the great Chinese thinker and educator and Locke, the famous Britishpolitical thinker, philosopher and educator are two representative figures. The former contended the primaryconcern on cultivation of Junzi, an idealized personality with virtue and righteousness and the latter pushed themodern Western gentleman education to the summit under the unique British noble system and the tradition ofelite education. This paper makes a contrastive study of Confucius’s Junzi education and Locke’s gentlemaneducation. Through analyzing and comparing the unique Confucian moral principles and Locke’s insights intogentleman education, the study finds that although there are common grounds and similarities between ConfucianJunzi education and Locke’s gentleman education, they are different from each other in teaching target groups,teaching methods and teaching contents. This study helps to bring a significant rethinking for charactercultivation and enrich the contemporary educational ideas from a cross-cultural perspective.展开更多
基金This paper is part of the outputs of the project“A Comparative Study on the Urban Linguistic Landscape of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area under the background of globalization(No.2019GZYB81).
文摘Both in ancient China and Western countries educators emphasized cultivation of students’emotions, personalityand character, among whom Confucius, the great Chinese thinker and educator and Locke, the famous Britishpolitical thinker, philosopher and educator are two representative figures. The former contended the primaryconcern on cultivation of Junzi, an idealized personality with virtue and righteousness and the latter pushed themodern Western gentleman education to the summit under the unique British noble system and the tradition ofelite education. This paper makes a contrastive study of Confucius’s Junzi education and Locke’s gentlemaneducation. Through analyzing and comparing the unique Confucian moral principles and Locke’s insights intogentleman education, the study finds that although there are common grounds and similarities between ConfucianJunzi education and Locke’s gentleman education, they are different from each other in teaching target groups,teaching methods and teaching contents. This study helps to bring a significant rethinking for charactercultivation and enrich the contemporary educational ideas from a cross-cultural perspective.
