一历史的车轮已经碾过辉煌与灾难并存的20世纪——这是一个物质文明与科学技术空前发达的世纪,也是一个人文精神与道德世界严重失落的世纪。有人说,有可能带给人类毁灭性灾难的,不在于原子弹、核武器,而在于人类心灵的空虚和残缺,在于道德的堕落。因此,对道德教育的重视,已成为世界各国教育发展的一个共同趋势。1993年在广州召开的面向21世纪的教育改革国际研讨会认为:“未来的21世纪应把道德教育放在全部教育的首 The wheel of history has run through the 20th century when glory and disaster coexist. This is a century when material civilization and science and technology are unprecedentedly developed, and it is also a century in which the humanistic spirit and moral world have been seriously lost. Some people say that it is not atomic bombs or nuclear weapons that are likely to bring catastrophic disasters to humanity, but that the emptiness and incompleteness of the human mind lies in the degeneration of morality. Therefore, the emphasis on moral education has become a common trend in education development in all countries. The International Symposium on Educational Reform for the 21st Century, held in Guangzhou in 1993, states: "In the 21st century, moral education should be placed first in all education.