"If the chaos is not cured at the end, the thick ones will be thin, and the thin ones will be thick, but nothing." This sentence is a famous sentence in the Four Books and the University. The main idea is that the fundamental problem has not been solved, and the problem of solving minor problems does not exist. If you ignore the first thing, you can make the second thing a complete success. This kind of thing has never happened. Connecting with the current educational reality, I think this sentence still has certain warning and guiding significance.

For every school, its "foundation" is education and teaching. The purpose of running a school determines that education and teaching is the first job of the school and the foundation of the school. If the school's work is far away from education and teaching, eager for quick success and instant benefit, engaging in form, going through the motions, and things come vigorously and quietly, the school will not have substantial development; If school work does not pay attention to education and teaching, teachers' teaching and students' learning, does not solve the needs of education and teaching, and does not have a serious atmosphere of teaching and learning, the quality of school education and teaching will not be improved; If the school's work focuses on "image", it does not hesitate to practise fraud and is unwilling to expose and solve the problems existing in education and teaching, which will hinder the improvement of education and teaching quality. In short, schools deviate from the fundamentals of education and teaching, and it is impossible to develop at the expense of roots.

For education and teaching, its "foundation" is teachers and students. Simply put, the implementer of education and teaching is the teacher and the receiver is the student. The primary work of a school is to carry out education and teaching around teachers and students, who are the basis of school education and teaching. School leaders should take teachers and students as the center in education and teaching, and provide services and guidance for education and teaching. If you exaggerate your role infinitely and emphasize that a school leader is the soul and the decisive factor of school success, it is a big mistake. There is a saying in the countryside that "even dragons should be backed by clouds". Teachers and students are the "cloud" of school administrators and the foundation of school development. Without clouds and dragons, they can't fly. The decision-making and implementation of any work in a school should put teachers and students first and give full consideration to their needs. Only in this way can the quality of education and teaching in schools be really improved.

For teachers, their "foundation" is teachers' morality. Teachers' morality refers to the sum total of relatively stable behavior norms that teachers adjust the relationship between teachers and students, teachers and teachers, teachers and parents, teachers and society, depending on the power of public opinion, traditional customs, inner beliefs, professional requirements and ideological influence in the process of education and labor. Teachers must have good professional ethics if they want to impart ideological and moral knowledge and scientific and cultural knowledge to students. If a teacher can't be fair and upright to people and things, it will be difficult to win the respect of students; If a teacher lacks kindness, he must be cold, mechanical and helpless; If a teacher has no love and patience, and lacks tolerance and calmness, he can't win the students' heartfelt love. Once teachers' moral defects are exposed to students, their influence on students may be lifelong. Even if teachers have high teaching skills, they are not qualified teachers if there is a problem with their morality. Teachers are required to take the lead in students' morality. Teachers' role models can exert a subtle influence on students' morality. Without teachers' "role models", there can be no real school education. Therefore, for teachers, teachers' morality is the foundation of teachers.

For students, their "foundation" is moral education. Moral education is an important part of school education and teaching, and also an aspect advocated by quality education. Schools must put moral education in the first place and carry out moral education seriously. Schools and teachers should raise their awareness, establish the concepts of teaching and educating people, managing and educating people, and ensure the effective implementation of school moral education. If the school only pays attention to students' academic achievements, students will certainly not become a harmonious development person, but will only become a machine lacking innovation ability, an imperfect person lacking love, responsibility and sense of justice. Therefore, strengthening students' moral education is the guarantee of students' all-round development and becoming useful people. Moral education should be the basis of student education.

In school, any behavior of giving up the basics will seriously affect the development of the school and the improvement of the quality of education and teaching. Tracing back to the source and treating both the symptoms and the root causes is the principle that every school leader and teacher should follow.