荀子继承了儒家重视道德教化的传统,对道德教化问题进行了较为系统的论述。他在中国思想史上第一次明确提出并使用了“教化”这一概念,从人类社会生活的需要出发对道德教化的必要性进行了论证,提出并论证了礼法并用的道德教化方法,突出了师友在道德教教化中的作用。在儒家道德教化思想的发展和完善中,荀子做出了重要的理论贡献。 Xunzi inherited the Confucian tradition of attaching importance to moral education and systematically discussed the issue of moral education. For the first time in history of Chinese thought, he explicitly put forward and used the concept of “enlightenment”, demonstrating the necessity of moralizing education from the needs of human social life, putting forward and demonstrating the moral enlightenment method of combining etiquette with law, Highlighting the role of teachers and teachers in the moralization of education. In the development and improvement of Confucian moral education thought, Xunzi made important theoretical contributions.