On the Necessity and Possibility of Human-centered Moral Education

The present moral education in China is still of strong characteristics of traditional education based on society-centeredness, which focuses on social development while ignoring human development. Therefore, moral education faces not only the low efficiency but also controversy with the tendency of the time--the development of human beings. On the basis of the criticism of it, the new model of moral education, human-centered moral education, has been put forward and draws much attention. In this paper, the necessity and possibility of the so-called human-centered moral education was discussed, which tells this new model of moral education in accordance with the time and the new period.