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Vigorously promote the unique spirit of educators in China

2025-09-11   

On the occasion of the 41st Teachers' Day, General Secretary Xi Jinping replied to representatives of special post teachers nationwide, fully affirming the enthusiasm and responsibility of the majority of special post teachers to actively participate in rural education over the past 20 years since the implementation of the "Special Post Plan", and to "root themselves in the three foot podium, devote themselves to hard work, and silently dedicate themselves". He earnestly hopes that the majority of teachers will "continue to adhere to the original intention of education, continuously improve their teaching and nurturing abilities, wholeheartedly care for and guide children's healthy growth with emotions, and strive to cultivate socialist builders and successors with comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor". Special post teachers are an important force and vivid embodiment of practicing the spirit of educators. They are rooted in the front line of rural education, overcoming difficulties such as difficult conditions and scarce resources, implementing the fundamental task of cultivating virtue and educating people with a high sense of responsibility and mission, promoting educational equity and quality improvement, and interpreting the rich connotation of the educator's spirit of "having a great self and sincerely serving the country, speaking as a scholar and acting as a model for the world, educating people with wisdom and adapting to their aptitude, practicing diligently and innovatively, loving students with love and dedication, embracing the world, and pursuing the path of cultural people" through practical actions. Vigorously promoting and implementing the spirit of educators, we should take research and interpretation as the basis, cultural inheritance as the pulse, promotion and dissemination as the axis, and practice as the outline. Through comprehensive mechanism construction, we can achieve the transformation and leap from "spiritual guidance" to "conscious action", inject inexhaustible spiritual power into cultivating a high-level teacher team in the new era, and provide strong spiritual support for the construction of an educational power. Systematic research and interpretation are the foundation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has always attached great importance to the construction of the teaching staff. The connotation of teacher team construction has been continuously enriched and developed, from proposing the concept of "four have" good teachers, "" four guides ", and" four are unified ", to advocating the educational realm of" great masters ", and to condensing the" unique Chinese educator spirit ". This process is not only a creative transformation of Marxist educational theory, but also an innovative development of educational wisdom in excellent traditional Chinese culture. Promote vertical integration research. Construct a three-dimensional research framework of "history theory reality" and deeply explore the treasure trove of educational ideas throughout Chinese history. From Confucius' "no discrimination in education", Zhu Xi's "investigating things to gain knowledge", to Tao Xingzhi's "life education", and then to the educational practice of "people's educators" since the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially focusing on the educational wisdom demonstrated by the current teacher group in rural revitalization, scientific education, and the cultivation of outstanding innovative talents, comprehensively sorting out the historical evolution logic of China's unique educator spirit. Focusing on the education policy of the Party and the state in the new era, implementing the fundamental task of cultivating virtue and educating people, constructing a knowledge system to explain the spirit of Chinese educators, and systematically interpreting the Chinese people's thinking on various aspects such as educational objectives, methods, content, and realm. Strengthening the research on the construction of the new era teacher team led by the spirit of educators, assisting in the transformation and modernization of education, promoting the contribution of Chinese solutions to global education governance, and becoming a powerful driving force for the development of education in the new era. Pay attention to horizontal comparative research. Comparing theoretical roots and deepening integration roots, with a focus on comparing the core differences and similarities between Marxist educational theory, excellent traditional Chinese culture, and Western educational theory. Through critical analysis, we aim to break the mindset of "interpreting from the West to the Middle" and promote the construction of a global comparative paradigm of equal dialogue and mutual learning between Eastern and Western educational wisdom. To compare the core values, it is necessary to demonstrate the subjectivity of the educator's spirit, which not only integrates local practices in China, but also pays attention to the common values of humanity, and systematically explains the similarities and differences between the professional ethics, educational ideals, and action forces of Chinese teachers and the spiritual traits of educators in other countries. It is rooted in Chinese educational practice, highlighting the national characteristics of the educator's spirit, while also being placed in the perspective of common human values to interpret global significance. Three aspects of discourse system, balancing internationalization and localization, constructing an educational discourse system and independent knowledge system with Chinese characteristics. In horizontal reference, clarify the unique contribution of Chinese education in solving global education issues such as educational equity, quality improvement, and digital transformation, establish the coordinate positioning of Chinese education in the global academic map, provide theoretical support for the construction of a strong education country in the new era, and contribute Chinese solutions to the development of human education. Conduct research on the integration of data and intelligence. Currently, technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence are reshaping the education ecosystem, injecting new era connotations into the spirit of educators. The Outline of the Plan for Building a Strong Education Country (2024-2035) explicitly proposes to "promote artificial intelligence to assist in educational reform" and "develop new digital educational resources". On the one hand, we need to promote the construction of a multidimensional database of educators' spirit, systematically collecting the growth experiences, educational practices, and ideological literature of educators throughout history, structurally analyzing the spiritual core and changes of educators, and forming a spiritual gene bank that spans time and space. On the other hand, teachers themselves should also become drivers of the digital education ecosystem, proficient in intelligent teaching tools (such as AI teaching assistants, virtual teaching rooms, etc.), transform the spirit of educators into the ability to develop digital educational resources, possess cross-border innovation and critical thinking skills, and adapt to the rapidly changing educational environment of the digital age. At the same time, we focus on interdisciplinary collaboration to empower research paradigm innovation, integrating theories from multiple disciplines such as education, history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and combining artificial intelligence empowerment to promote the formation of a new paradigm of theoretical research that is interactive, inheritable, and verifiable. Highlighting the characteristics of Chinese civilization is the core of Chinese civilization, which has outstanding continuity, innovation, unity, inclusiveness, and peace. There is a deep value isomorphism and practical embedding relationship between the unique spirit of Chinese educators and Chinese civilization. It is not only the inheritance and continuation of excellent traditional Chinese culture, but also the inheritance and promotion of revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture, and a contemporary response to innovative culture. Grasp the roots of Chinese culture. The educational wisdom of Chinese civilization provides an inexhaustible source of ideas for the spirit of educators. We need to delve into the historical origins and evolution of the unique spirit of educators in China in the new era, and sort out the important elements of the spirit of educators in Chinese civilization that have important implications for building an educational powerhouse. From the dialectical wisdom of "teaching and learning complement each other" in "Xueji" to Wang Yangming's practical philosophy of "integrating knowledge and action"; From the tradition of free lectures at Jixia Academy, to the "lecture oriented" educational model of the academy system, and to the exploration of modern education to save the country; From Zhang Zai's mission of "establishing a heart for heaven and earth", to Gu Yanwu's patriotism of "every man has a responsibility for the rise and fall of the world", and to Cai Yuanpei's broad mindedness of "freedom of thought and inclusiveness", the spirit of educators has shaped a unique cultural character through the contemporary transformation of these cultural genes. Promote mutual learning among international civilizations. We should use the spirit of educators as a link for cultural exchange and dialogue, build a global education community ecology, and promote spiritual resonance between Chinese and foreign educators through mutual learning and interaction. We need to promote the "going global" of China's educational wisdom, participate in global education governance with an open and inclusive attitude through innovative education aid paradigms, expanding cultural exchange dimensions, cultivating international education brands, and delivering education governance talents through multiple paths. We also need to build cross-border education cooperation platforms, upgrade Sino foreign cooperation mechanisms, improve the system of visiting and exchanging schools, enhance the influence of China's academic discourse, and let the world understand the real, three-dimensional, and comprehensive China, especially Chinese education. When the spirit of educators resonates with global educational reform with an open mind, the innovative character of Chinese civilization will contribute unique wisdom to the shaping of new forms of human educational civilization. Strengthen the construction of cultural confidence. The spirit of educators is an important engine for the construction of cultural confidence in the teaching staff. The teacher team cultivated with the spirit of educators is the "cultural torchbearer", whose classroom teaching, teacher-student interaction, research and innovation behaviors continuously generate a micro practice field of cultural confidence. For example, Huang Danian's patriotic sentiment of "having a great self and sincerely serving the country" not only inherits the traditional ideal of "cultivating oneself, governing the country, and pacifying the world", but also endows it with the era connotation of serving the national strategy. The teacher group based on the spirit of educators, like a flowing cultural gene chain, continues to promote the continuous self innovation and transcendence of Chinese culture, and through the micro practice of teachers, transforms "cultural confidence" into the details of educating millions of classrooms, elevating cultural confidence from knowledge cognition to value recognition. With education as a carrier, it realizes the creative transformation and international dissemination of the spiritual identity of Chinese civilization, forming an endogenous cultural force and a virtuous cycle of cross-cultural mutual learning. The comprehensive construction of a communication system is to ensure that the vitality of educators' spirit lies in communication and practice. We need to break through traditional path dependence, build a three-dimensional communication matrix with school education as the main body, media communication as an extension, and social participation as the support, achieve deep integration of spiritual inheritance and the needs of the times, form a broad consensus and good atmosphere for vigorously promoting and practicing in the whole society, and enhance the "infectivity, penetration, and guidance" of communication. Optimize the typical tree selection mechanism. The selection of outstanding teacher models is a prerequisite and foundation for increasing the recognition of teacher honors and telling the stories of Chinese educators well. In terms of tree selection criteria, it is necessary to establish a review committee composed of representatives from multiple fields in education, refine evaluation indicators based on educational practice, and ensure that the standards are scientifically adapted to different regions, categories, and school stages. In the tree selection program, a transparent operation system with full process information disclosure and third-party supervision should be established. In the selection of trees, more attention should be paid to the sustainability and stability of educators' long-term practice of the spirit of educators. Multiple evaluation subjects including students, peers, parents, and society should be adopted to comprehensively reflect the effectiveness of their educational practices. In the application of tree selection results, it is necessary to regularly track the development of typical figures such as special post teachers, aid teachers in Tibet (Xinjiang), and model teachers, provide continuous support to stimulate innovation vitality, and promote their deeds through multiple channels to strengthen the exemplary effect. Build a learning promotion matrix. In practice, this is reflected in the construction of a "full media, full field, full cycle" learning and publicity matrix. We should pay attention to promoting the popularization and transformation of academic discourse, and concretize the profound connotation of the "educator spirit" into film and television dramas, specialized books and newspapers, stage plays, short video stories, promotional quotes, campus cultural corridors, community interaction cases, etc. We need to integrate all media resources to form a collaborative communication force, implement layered and precise dissemination, and widely promote through diverse channels such as television, newspapers, the internet, and social media. By setting up columns and special programs on the spirit of educators, we can deeply report on the deeds and spiritual connotations of educators; Conduct immersive activities such as educator forums, touring lectures, themed lectures, specialized courses, essay contests, and campus dramas offline to promote the spirit of educators into campuses, classrooms, and communities. Expand public participation and establish a collaborative communication mechanism of "government led school subject social participation". The policy support from the government and education departments is the basic guarantee. Schools promote the spirit of educators by improving regulations, optimizing the selection and dissemination mechanism of typical cases, and strengthening the construction system of teacher ethics and style. Advocate for the participation of the whole society, radiate the spirit of educators to underdeveloped areas through educational public welfare projects and digital technology, overcome regional differences and cross-cultural barriers, and form a long-term mechanism for social assistance in rural education. Establishing the dissemination effect of science

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