Cultivating children with high moral character - Knowing honor and shame

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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Family is the classroom for children's education. Parents are their teachers. Scientific family education is a crucial foundation for the healthy growth of children. Parents should set an example, establishing a clear sense of honor and shame, and demonstrating healthy and moral behavior for their children. Knowing honor and shame is fundamental to being human. The Chinese nation has long been a land of etiquette and civilization. The profound Chinese civilization has nurtured the concept of honor and shame in the Chinese nation. Proverbs like "Wealth cannot corrupt, poverty cannot move, and power cannot bend," "Prioritize others over oneself," and "A promise is as valuable as gold" are the essence and true reflection of the traditional Chinese concept of honor and shame. In today's highly developed economy and rapidly changing world, people's values are also undergoing tremendous changes. Inheriting the fine traditions of the nation, showcasing advanced civilization of the times, and building a scientific concept of honor and shame are a new topic and challenge facing the Chinese people. Recently, General Secretary Hu Jintao proposed the important principle of the "Eight Honors and Eight Shames." This principle is concise in summary and profound in meaning, possessing strong national and contemporary significance. It sets a new benchmark for the construction of socialist citizen morality and holds great importance for promoting the formation of a positive social atmosphere and building a harmonious socialist society.
Taking patriotism as honor and endangering the motherland as shame;
Taking serving the people as honor and turning away from the people as shame;
Taking advocating science as honor and ignorance as shame;
Taking hard work as honor and laziness as shame;
Taking unity and mutual assistance as honor and harming others for personal gain as shame;
Taking honesty and trustworthiness as honor and forgetting righteousness for profit as shame;
Taking adherence to discipline and the law as honor and violating the law as shame;
Taking hard struggle as honor and extravagance and debauchery as shame.