The United Nations Commission on Education in the 21st Century has put forward four pillars of education in the 21st century, namely, learning to seek knowledge, learning to do things, learning to get along with others and learning to be a man. Learning to be a man is the key and core of the four pillars, and it is also the purpose and foundation of education. Learning to be a man is a problem that every one of us has to face. No matter how much knowledge and wealth a person has, if he doesn't know the truth of being a man, he won't achieve real success and happiness in the end. Hitler, Cheng Kejie, Hu Changqing, they have knowledge, wealth and status, but they don't know the truth of being a man, and eventually they become historical offenders. When westerners selected the top ten greatest thinkers in the 2th century, they put Marx in the first place. His thoughts and personality charm will always inspire generation after generation. It's gold, and it won't lose its value wherever it is buried. It's dirt, and no matter how publicized it is, it can't escape being spurned.

people, in essence, are social people. Being a man is endowed with different contents and colors in different countries and different historical periods of the same country. Therefore, learning to be a man is inseparable from the real society. As far as the real society we live in is concerned, on the basis of inheriting and carrying forward the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, we should arm ourselves with Deng Xiaoping Theory, set up lofty ideals from an early age, and aspire to be a qualified builder and successor of socialist modernization with ideals, morality, culture and discipline. Use the Code of Daily Behavior for Middle School Students to spur and restrain themselves. According to the requirements of all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor, we should develop good behavior and morality from childhood, learn scientific and cultural knowledge well, exercise our strong physique, cultivate noble aesthetic taste, be a good student at school, be a good boy at home and be a good teenager in society. As Tao Xingzhi, an educator, said, "Learn from thousands of things and learn to be a real person."

Today's students are tomorrow's citizens, and no matter what occupation they are engaged in in in the future, being a man is still the first. Therefore, morality should teach them how to behave. First, the content of moral education should be infiltrated in the teaching of cultural courses, and the combination of literature and Taoism should be combined; Second, do a good job in ideological and moral courses; Third, effectively carry out colorful extracurricular moral education activities; Fourth, pay attention to the positive influence of setting an example by teachers. Mould their hearts with the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation and the positive achievements of modern civilization. Educate them to dedicate their loyalty to the motherland, love to the society, care to others, education to their parents, and confidence to themselves. Be a noble person, a pure person, a person who is free from vulgar tastes, a person who is beneficial to the country, society, people, family and himself, a person with ideals, morality, culture and discipline.

We have entered the 21st century, and we are greeted by a new technological revolution with information technology as the main symbol. The speed of knowledge renewal and transformation into productive forces has been greatly accelerated, and the knowledge economy has developed rapidly in developed countries, which will become the dominant new economic form in the new century. In the 21st century, behind the economic and technological competition between countries, the competition of talents and knowledge will be in the core position, and the advantages and potential of development will be contained in knowledge. Social wealth will increasingly gather in countries and regions with knowledge advantages, and whoever has the advantage in knowledge and technological innovation will occupy the leading position in national development. In his speech at the Third National Conference on Education, General Secretary Jiang pointed out: Education is the main base for knowledge innovation, dissemination and application, and also the cradle for cultivating innovative spirit and talents. It will play a unique role in improving national quality and innovative ability, cultivating high-quality workers and professionals, and providing high-level contributions to knowledge innovation and technological innovation, and will become a decisive factor in improving comprehensive national strength and international competitiveness.

Basic education is the cradle project for cultivating talents. Only when it faces modernization, the world and the future can it really shoulder the heavy responsibility of cultivating talents for the future. Therefore, in the basic education stage, quality education centered on cultivating students' innovative spirit and practical ability is implemented, so that students can learn to be human, learn to be knowledgeable, learn to keep fit, learn to appreciate beauty, learn to work and learn to live-laying a solid foundation for students' lifelong learning and sustainable development.

However, training students to learn to learn and seek knowledge, so that they have the spirit of innovation and practical ability, is the core content of knowledge quality education, not the whole of quality education. The soul of quality education, the foundation of basic education, the foundation of social civilization construction, and the guarantee of successful education and talent education are moral education, that is, to solve the problems of students' "what kind of person to be" and "how to be a person", which is also a problem that cannot be ignored in the process of quality education. Looking back on the educational history of China in the past 5 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, we can easily see the position and relationship between "being a man" and "seeking knowledge" in education.

So, how to raise the sails of moral education and lay a good moral foundation for students to be human beings in quality education at the basic education stage? This is to vigorously reform the current "big and empty moral education model" and establish a strict, detailed and practical two-way multi-dimensional moral education model.

First of all, we should standardize the three basic contents of moral education and cultivate students' basic qualities of being a man.

1. Adhere to the education of basic behavior norms-let students develop good quality in four aspects: good study habits, living habits, hygiene habits and etiquette habits.

2. Adhere to the education of basic moral quality-to enable students to form good behavior norms such as patriotism and service to the country, respect for teachers and love for schools, devotion and perseverance, kindness and friendliness, abstinence from extravagance and frugality, courage and perseverance, respect for elders and love for children, respect for parents, putting the public first, humility and courtesy.

3. Adhere to the cultivation and education of basic psychological quality, and cultivate the psychological quality of self-reliance; Carry out interest education and cultivate the psychological quality of loving learning; Conduct self-confidence education and cultivate the psychological quality of self-improvement; Carry out will education and cultivate tenacious psychological quality; Carry out frustration education and cultivate the psychological quality of resisting pressure, frustration and enterprising; Carry out cooperative education to cultivate harmonious, lively and cheerful psychological quality; Carry out responsibility education and cultivate the psychological quality of caring for others and being responsible.

4. Reform classroom teaching and construct moral education network. It is necessary to update the concept of moral education, establish a great moral education concept that everyone is a moral education worker, and build a moral education network in which leaders manage and educate people, teachers teach and educate people, and staff and workers serve people. Implement the responsibility system of all-staff educators and establish a new pattern of moral education.

5. Reform compulsory courses, add elective courses and build a complete moral education course. The political course adheres to the principle of combining theory with practice and adopts the teaching method of knowing and doing. The classroom structure of "in-class theoretical study+out-of-class practical exercise" is implemented, and the "knowledge" of political common sense is combined with the "behavior" of ideological and moral behavior to evaluate grades, and optional courses such as social practice and mental health are added.

to build a moral education network is to establish a moral education network that teaches theory education, behavior education, subject infiltration education, social practice education, life education, visiting and reading education, aesthetic education, environmental education, psychological education, students' independent education and family education.

establish a four-in-one moral education system. Construct a four-in-one self-management system of family, society, school and students, and all school leaders, teachers, parents and students participate in moral education. To achieve the integration of management, the team is full, and the overall environment, climate and pattern of moral education work are formed, so as to achieve the optimal realization of educational goals.

learning to be a man is not a one-time achievement for an individual, but a subject and test that you have to face all the time in your life. It's never too old to learn. It's a lifetime thing. Chairman Mao once said: "It is not difficult to do a good deed, and it is rare to do it all your life." Ostorovsky, the author of How Steel was Tempered, has a famous saying: A person's life should be spent like this: "Looking back, he will not regret wasting his time, nor will he be ashamed of being mediocre. I hope that students will inspire themselves with this heroic spirit of dedication, start from childhood, start from now on, start from bit by bit, and gradually develop manners, unity and mutual assistance, honesty and trustworthiness, and abide by the law." Try to be a noble person, a pure person, a moral person, a person who is free from vulgar tastes and a person who is beneficial to the people.