Leading a New Trend of Respecting Teachers and Valuing Education with the Spirit of Educators

Teachers are the foundation of education and the source of its flourishing; to strengthen the country, one must first strengthen education, and to strengthen education, one must first strengthen teachers. The *Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Promoting the Spirit of Educators and Strengthening the Construction of a High-Quality Professional Teacher Team in the New Era* (hereinafter referred to as the *Opinions*) states: “Strengthen the guidance of the spirit of educators, enhance teachers’ ability to educate and cultivate people, and improve the long-term mechanism for the construction of teacher ethics and conduct,” and emphasizes the need to “deeply cultivate a culture of respecting teachers and valuing education.” Respecting teachers and valuing education is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation and a true epitome of the transmission of national morality. Leading a new trend of respecting teachers and valuing education with the spirit of educators can create a fair, respectful, and harmonious social environment for cultivating great teachers for the country, help enhance the professional honor, happiness, and sense of mission of educational workers, enable educators to teach with peace of mind and engage in research with dedication, and, with a strong passion for educating people, cultivate more new-era individuals capable of shouldering great responsibilities for building a strong educational country and advancing the great rejuvenation of the nation.

教师是立教之本、兴教之源，强国必先强教，强教必先强师。《中共中央 国务院关于弘扬教育家精神加强新时代高素质专业化教师队伍建设的意见》（以下简称《意见》）中指出：“强化教育家精神引领，提升教师教书育人能力，健全师德师风建设长效机制”，并强调要“厚植尊师重教文化”。尊师重教是中华民族的优良传统，也是民族道德传承的真实缩影。以教育家精神引领尊师重教的新风尚，能够为培养大国良师创造公平、尊重、和谐的社会环境，有助于增强教育工作者的职业荣誉感、幸福感和使命感，使教育者安心从教、潜心研教，以强烈的育人热忱，为建设教育强国、推进实现民族伟大复兴培养更多堪当大任的时代新人。

Enhancing Social Recognition of the Spirit of Educators

增强对教育家精神的社会认同

Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has possessed a fine tradition and cultural heritage of respecting teachers and valuing education. The *Xunzi: Great Compendium* records: “If a state is to prosper, it must honor teachers and value tutors; if it honors teachers and values tutors, then laws and regulations will be preserved.” The *Book of Rites: Qu Li* records: “When following a teacher, do not cross the road to speak with others. If you encounter a teacher on the road, hasten forward, stand upright, and clasp your hands.” From this, it can be seen that respecting teachers and valuing education is an important component of the Chinese nation’s moral system and also a high moral requirement for individual members of society. On the one hand, the spirit of educators embodies the ideal and belief of having a great self in one’s heart and serving the country with utmost sincerity, the moral sentiment of words being the model for scholars and actions being the standard for the world, the educational wisdom of enlightening the mind and nurturing the heart and teaching according to aptitude, the diligent attitude of studying diligently and practicing earnestly, seeking truth and being innovative, the benevolent heart of delighting in teaching and loving students and being willing to contribute, and the grand pursuit of embracing the world and transforming people through culture.

中华民族自古以来便有着尊师重教的优良传统和文化传承，《荀子·大略》中载有“国将兴，必贵师而重傅；贵师而重傅，则法度存。”《礼记·曲礼》中则载有“从于先生，不越路而与人言。遭先生于道，趋而进，正立拱手。”由此可见，尊师重教是中华民族道德体系的重要组成部分，同时也是对社会个体的高尚道德要求。一方面，教育家精神体现着心有大我、至诚报国的理想信念，言为士则、行为世范的道德情操，启智润心、因材施教的育人智慧，勤学笃行、求是创新的躬耕态度，乐教爱生、甘于奉献的仁爱之心以及胸怀天下、以文化人的弘道追求。

On the other hand, the spirit of educators manifests the heavy responsibility of new-era educators to disseminate knowledge and truth and the mission to shape souls and values, serving as a spiritual condensation of the traditional moral tradition of respecting teachers and valuing education. To establish a new trend of respecting teachers and valuing education, it is necessary to take promoting the spirit of educators and enhancing social recognition of this spirit as a prerequisite, so that the spirit of educators becomes a reflection of the national spirit and the spirit of the times, allowing educators to be respected and revered by the whole society, thereby supporting and attracting more outstanding educational talents to teach with enthusiasm, teach with care, teach long-term, and teach for life.

另一方面，教育家精神彰显了新时代教育者传播知识与真理的重任和塑造灵魂和价值的使命，是对传统尊师重教道德传统的精神凝结。树立尊师重教的新风尚，应以弘扬教育家精神、增强对教育家精神的社会认同为前提，使教育家精神成为民族精神和时代精神的映射，让教育者受到全社会的尊重和敬仰，从而支持和吸引更多优秀教育人才热心从教、精心从教、长期从教、终身从教。

Giving Full Play to the Guiding Role of the Spirit of Educators

发挥好教育家精神的引领作用

Teachers are the primary resource for the development of the educational cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the talent cornerstone for national prosperity, national rejuvenation, and the happiness of the people, and are of great significance for comprehensively advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-path modernization. The spirit of educators plays an important role in value guidance, emotional guidance, and practical guidance for establishing a new trend of respecting teachers and valuing education, and is an important ideological logic for reshaping the educational atmosphere, enhancing the social status of educators, and optimizing the educational environment.

教师是中国特色社会主义教育事业发展的第一资源，是国家繁荣、民族振兴、人民幸福的人才基石，对以中国式现代化全面推进中华民族伟大复兴具有重要意义。教育家精神对树立尊师重教新风尚具有价值引领、情感引领和实践引领的重要作用，是重塑教育风气、提升教育者社会地位、优化教育环境的重要思想逻辑。

Adhere to the value guidance of putting the people first. It is necessary to adhere to a people-centered approach, continuously enhance the inclusiveness, accessibility, and convenience of public education services, and let the fruits of educational reform and development benefit all the people more fairly and extensively. Education is a practical activity based on the economic base, cultural environment, and political structure, and is a reflection and derivation of the people’s demands and the state of social development. Education under socialism with Chinese characteristics is education for the people, public welfare education, and also the value keynote for the formation and development of the spirit of educators. The spirit of educators is rooted in the century-long process of Chinese educators serving the development of the people’s educational cause, embodies the people-centered value concept, takes whether the people are satisfied as an important yardstick for measuring educational effectiveness, and has a distinct people-oriented attribute. Promoting the spirit of educators in the New Era is conducive to further clarifying that the development of education does not serve a specific person or group but takes the common values of society as the core and aims to promote the comprehensive development of people, pointing out the people-oriented value destination for the development of education.

坚持人民至上的价值引领。要坚持以人民为中心，不断提升教育公共服务的普惠性、可及性、便捷性，让教育改革发展成果更多更公平惠及全体人民。教育是一项建立在经济基础、文化环境和政治结构基础上的实践活动，是人民诉求和社会发展样态的反映与派生。中国特色社会主义教育是人民的教育，是公益性教育，也是教育家精神形成和发展的价值基调。教育家精神根植于中国教育家们服务人民教育事业发展的百年历程，体现着以人民为中心的价值理念，将人民满意与否作为衡量教育成效的重要标尺，具有鲜明的人民性属性。弘扬新时代的教育家精神，有利于进一步明确教育的发展并非服务某一特定的人或群体，而是以社会共同价值为核心，以促进人的全面发展为目的，为教育的发展指明了人民性的价值归宿。

Emotional guidance to stimulate internal motivation. Emotion is the spiritual support for educators to put education into practice, and the essence of education is emotional labor. The spirit of educators contains profound patriotic sentiments and rich moral emotions, carries the benevolent heart of educators who delight in teaching and love students and are willing to contribute, and is an expression of the deep feelings of Chinese educators for the educational cause. Leading the establishment of a new trend of respecting teachers and valuing education with the spirit of educators is conducive to cultivating the educational feelings of educators, guiding educators to establish lofty national ideals, professional ideals, and life ideals, and enabling educators to deeply understand the meaning of life, the value of education, and educational beliefs from the connotation of the spirit of educators. For example, Deji Zhoga, principal of Milin County Middle School in Nyingchi City, Tibet Autonomous Region, relying on her deep feelings for the cause of ethnic education, rooted herself in the border area, cultivated talents on the national border line, and integrated the strengthening of education on ethnic unity and progress and the forging of a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation into the entire process of work and study, establishing a deep teacher-student friendship with her students. The spirit of educators reflects the emotional resonance between teachers and students, contains educators’ understanding and grasp of their own role positioning, and promoting the spirit of educators is conducive to internally regulating educators’ professional attitudes, thereby enhancing educators’ sense of self-identity and social identity, and inspiring educators to consciously shoulder the mission of the times.

激发内在动力的情感引领。情感是教育者付诸教育实践的精神支撑，教育的本质是情感劳动。教育家精神包含了深厚的爱国主义情怀和丰富的道德情感，承载着教育者乐教爱生、甘于奉献的仁爱之心，是中国教育家对教育事业深挚情感的表达。以教育家精神引领树立尊师重教的新风尚，有利于涵养教育者的育人情怀，引领教育者树立崇高的民族理想、职业理想和人生理想，使教育者从教育家精神的内涵中深刻理解生命意义、教育价值以及教育信念。如西藏自治区林芝市米林县中学校长德吉卓嘎，依托对民族教育事业的深切情感扎根边疆，在祖国边境线上培育英才，并将加强民族团结进步教育和铸牢中华民族共同体意识教育融入工作学习的全过程，与学生建立了深厚的师生情谊。教育家精神反映着师生的情感共鸣，蕴含着教育者对自身角色定位的理解和把握，弘扬教育家精神，有利于从内在调节教育者的从业态度，进而增强教育者的自我认同感和社会认同感，激励教育者自觉担负时代使命。

Practical guidance to promote the unity of knowledge and action. The spirit of educators originates from practice and is formed in the historical process of Chinese educational practitioners transforming society through education. The spirit of educators is also a spirit of practice, condensing the educational wisdom of Chinese educators throughout the ages. Over the past hundred years and more, Chinese educators have insisted on starting from the essence of education, constructing an educational theoretical system that meets the needs of the development of the times, and testing educational content, methods, and concepts in practice, thereby revising educational theories, adjusting educational practices, and achieving the unity of knowledge and action in the spirit of educators. Leading the establishment of a new trend of respecting teachers and valuing education with the spirit of educators is conducive to guiding educators to integrate educational ideals into educational practice, achieving the standard of words being the model for scholars and actions being the standard for the world, and insisting on enlightening the mind and nurturing the heart, teaching according to aptitude, studying diligently and practicing earnestly, and seeking truth and being innovative. The spirit of educators is also beneficial for stimulating educators’ practical motivation, enabling educators to gain practical inspiration from the deeds of educators, devote themselves to educational research, explore educational issues, strengthen experience summarization, improve educational theories, strive to be “Four-Haves” good teachers [1]1 “Four-Haves” good teachers refers to teachers who have ideals and convictions, moral sentiments, solid knowledge, and a benevolent heart, a standard proposed by Xi Jinping., and become “Great Masters” who unify “classic teachers” and “human teachers” [2]2 “Classic teachers” (jingshi) refers to teachers who impart knowledge, while “human teachers” (renshi) refers to teachers who cultivate character; a “Great Master” (daxiansheng) is a term for a revered educator who unifies both roles., truly transforming lofty professional ideals into solid educational actions.

推进知行合一的实践引领。教育家精神源于实践，形成于中国教育实干家以教育改造社会的历史进程。教育家精神也是一种实践精神，凝结着中华民族历代教育者的教育智慧。百余年来，中国教育家坚持从教育的本质出发，构建适应时代发展需要的教育理论体系，并在实践中对教育内容、方法、理念进行检验，进而修正教育理论，调节教育实践，实现了对教育家精神的知行合一。以教育家精神引领树立尊师重教的新风尚，有利于引领教育者将教育理想融入于教育实践，做到言为士则、行为世范，坚持启智润心、因材施教、勤学笃行、求是创新。教育家精神更有益于激发教育者的实践动力，让教育者从教育家的事迹中获得实践启示，潜心教育研究，探究教育问题，加强经验总结，完善教育理论，争做“四有”好老师，做“经师”和“人师”相统一的“大先生”，真正将崇高的职业理想转化为扎实的育人行动。

Creating a Good Social Atmosphere for Educators

为教育者营造良好的社会氛围

Boost the dignity of the teaching profession and build a strong educational country. To lead the establishment of a new trend of respecting teachers and valuing education with the spirit of educators, it is necessary to take running education to the satisfaction of the people as a prerequisite, take the construction of teacher ethics and conduct as a pathway, build a practical platform for educators to display their talents and enhance social recognition, thereby optimizing the educational environment and creating a good social atmosphere for educators to strive in practice.

提振师道尊严，建设教育强国。以教育家精神引领树立尊师重教新风尚，要以办好人民满意的教育为前提，以师德师风建设为途径，为教育者搭建展现才能、增强社会认同的实践平台，从而优化育人环境，为教育者付诸奋斗实践营造良好的社会氛围。

Adhere to a people-centered approach and run education to the satisfaction of the people. The masses of the people are the creators of social material and spiritual wealth and the decisive force for social change. The purpose of promoting the spirit of educators is to enhance educators’ ability to educate people through the transformation of their inner subjective world and external practical actions, advance the construction of a strong educational country, provide the people with high-quality educational services that are both fair and public welfare-oriented, and thereby promote the comprehensive development of people. To lead a new trend of respecting teachers and valuing education with the spirit of educators, it is necessary to adhere to the people-centered educational concept, proceed from the people’s standpoint, deepen the understanding of the laws of the development of the educational cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and integrate the spirit of educators into the entire process of fair education and shared education. It is necessary to draw strength and wisdom for running, revitalizing, and strengthening education from the social creation of the masses of the people, focus on the changes in the people’s demands for diversified and personalized education, manifest the contemporary connotation of the spirit of educators in building education as a project for people’s livelihood and a project for people’s hearts, achieve strengthening through quality and strengthening through governance, and further reflect the strong concern of new-era education for the comprehensive development of people.

坚持以人民为中心，办好人民满意的教育。人民群众是社会物质财富和精神财富的创造者，是社会变革的决定力量。弘扬教育家精神，其目的是通过对教育者内在主观世界和外在实践行动的改造，提升教育者的育人能力，推进教育强国建设，为人民提供兼具公平性和公益性的优质教育服务，继而促进实现人的全面发展。以教育家精神引领尊师重教新风尚，应坚持以人民为中心的教育理念，从人民立场出发，深化对中国共产党领导下的中国特色社会主义教育事业发展的规律性认识，将教育家精神融入公平教育、共享教育的全过程。要从人民群众的社会创造中汲取办教、兴教、强教的力量与智慧，围绕人民群众对多元化、个性化教育的需求变化，在建设好教育的民生工程、民心工程中彰显教育家精神的时代内涵，做到以质图强、以治促强，进一步体现新时代教育对人的全面发展的强烈观照。

Strengthen the construction of teacher ethics and conduct, and cultivate great teachers of the nation in the New Era. Teachers bear the responsibility and mission of forging souls and educating people. Cultivating a high-quality teacher team with good teacher ethics and conduct in the New Era is the foundational work for building a strong educational country. To lead a new trend of respecting teachers and valuing education with the spirit of educators, the construction of teacher ethics and conduct should be placed in the primary position. Starting from strengthening the construction of teacher ethics and conduct, we should promote the normalization and institutionalization of ideal and belief education. We must fully implement the professional conduct standards for teachers in the New Era, strengthen the ethical assessment of educators, and take ethical evaluation as an important requirement for teacher qualification access, recruitment and introduction, and evaluation and reward. We should give full play to the exemplary and leading role of people's educators such as education role models and "most beautiful teachers," and promote the construction of teacher ethics education practice bases in various localities. This enables the vast number of teachers to take the virtuous as their teachers, cultivate professional ethics in teaching and educating, establish a correct view of history, view of the nation, view of the state, view of culture, and view of education, adhere to establishing themselves with virtue, learning with virtue, and teaching with virtue, and take being a great teacher of the nation in the New Era as their professional pursuit, thereby establishing a good professional image of the teacher team and enhancing society's professional recognition of the teacher group.

加强师德师风建设，培育新时代的大国良师。教师承担着铸魂育人的职责和使命，造就拥有良好师德师风的新时代高素质教师队伍是建设教育强国的基础性工作。以教育家精神引领尊师重教新风尚，应把师德师风建设摆在首要位置，从加强师德师风建设发轫，推动理想信念教育的常态化和制度化发展。要全面落实新时代教师职业行为准则，加强对教育者的师德考察，将师德评估作为教师资格准入、招聘引进、评优奖励的重要要求。应充分发挥育人楷模、“最美教师”等人民教育家的榜样示范作用，推动各地建设师德教育实践基地。使广大教师以贤为师，在教书育人中涵养职业道德，树立正确的历史观、民族观、国家观、文化观与育人观，坚持以德立身、以德立学、以德施教，以做新时代的大国良师为职业追求，从而树立教师队伍的良好职业形象，增强社会对教师群体的职业认同。

Build a practice platform for teachers to showcase the era's demeanor of educators. The "Opinions" [3]3 The "Opinions" refer to the "Opinions on the Construction of a High-Quality Teacher Team in the New Era" issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council. point out: "Adhere to the cultivation and nurturing of the spirit of educators, integrate it into teacher training and development, and build a good ecology for teacher development characterized by daily immersion, project empowerment, and platform support." To lead a new trend of respecting teachers and valuing education with the spirit of educators, we must adhere to forging and strengthening teachers with the spirit of educators, build a platform for teachers to showcase their talents to society, and deepen the public's comprehensive understanding of teachers in the New Era. The spirit of educators should be integrated into all aspects of teachers' classroom teaching, scientific research, and social practice, guiding the vast number of teachers to transform the spirit of educators into ideological consciousness and action consciousness in rich educational practices. At the same time, we should establish a complete and open talent policy mechanism, and strive to cultivate a number of innovative education talent teams with scientific research capabilities and the ability to tackle key problems. With the spirit of educators as the driving force, we should lead the vast number of teachers to consciously explore new paths of smart education, actively participate in the process of student growth, and take the initiative to support educational development in remote mountainous areas, border areas, and ancient villages and townships, so that teachers can showcase the demeanor of educators in the New Era in a good environment of respecting teachers and valuing education, and strive to become promoters and practitioners of building a strong educational country.

搭建教师实践平台，展现教育者的时代风貌。《意见》指出：“坚持教育家精神培育涵养，融入教师培养、发展，构建日常浸润、项目赋能、平台支撑的教师发展良好生态。”以教育家精神引领尊师重教新风尚，要坚持以教育家精神铸魂强师，为教师搭建面向社会进行自我才能展示的平台，加深公众对新时代教师的全面认识。应将教育家精神贯穿全体教师的课堂教学、科学研究以及社会实践等各环节，引导广大教师在丰富的教育实践中，将教育家精神转化为思想自觉和行动自觉。与此同时，要建立完善、开放的人才政策机制，着力培育一批具有科研能力和攻坚能力的创新教育人才团队。以教育家精神为动力，引领广大教师自觉探索智慧教育的新道路，积极参与到学生成长过程中，主动到边远山区、边境地区和古村乡寨支援教育发展，从而使教师在尊师重教的良好环境中展现新时代教育者的风貌，争当建设教育强国的推动者和实践者。

(The author is a professor, doctoral supervisor, and vice dean of the School of Marxism at Beijing Jiaotong University)

（作者系北京交通大学马克思主义学院教授、博士生导师、副院长）

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