不少人认为美国是一个绝对自由的国家,学校不存在任何意义上的道德约束与道德灌输,其实并非如此。美国虽没有明确采用“德育”或“思想政治教育”的概念,但学校却普遍重视德育,并且随着社会的发展和变化,不断研究和加强德育工作,取得了比较显著的成效。尤其值得一提的是,美国学校利用一切可能的课外途径来实施德育,这些途径主要有以下四种: 隐性教育隐性教育即采用隐蔽方式来传递社会价值观。隐性教育这一概念是美国学者奥渥勒于1970年提出的。澳渥勒认为,校园 Many people think that the United States is an absolutely free country. The school does not have any sense of moral restraint and moral indoctrination. This is not the case. Although the United States has not explicitly adopted the concept of “moral education” or “ideological and political education,” schools have generally attached importance to moral education. With the development and changes of society, the United States has continuously studied and strengthened moral education work, and achieved remarkable results. It is worth mentioning that U.S. schools use all possible extra-curricular channels to implement moral education. There are four main ways to achieve this: Implicit education Implicit education is a covert approach to the transmission of social values. The concept of implicit education was proposed by American scholar O’Neill in 1970. Aurill thinks that campus