The Comparison of Family Education between China and Western Countries

 From what has been discussed above, we may see that either the Chinese tradition of family education or that of the Western family education tradition has its own strong points, they all take root in respective traditional cultural soil. At present, the undesirable phenomenon we meet in the family education lies mainly in the incorrect teaching method.

  Therefore, in my opinion, on the one hand, we need inherit and develop the fine educational tradition of ancient China, on the other hand, we need derive the essence from Western family education, and promote the reform family education characteristic of China. So Chinese family education should be adjusted reasonably, it mainly include the following 4 aspects:

    (1) First of all, family educational idea should be modernized, we should reject obsolete educational idea, keep pace with the times. The modern home education content and method in modern family education need science, and educational method needs modernization. Establish modern family educational mechanism, make family educational management standardized. Establish family educational service system, lay down the institution for ensuring the implement of measures.

    (2) Establish guardian's concept of law in education, and solve the problem of the parent's doing educational work in accordance with the law; Enhance family educational consciousness of  democracy, respect child, equal communication, change the set of bad style of educating the child in an oversimplified and crude way or in concisemeasure or even in corporal punishment;

    (3) Set up the new family educational idea, take “teach the child to live straight” as the most important of family education; Make use of the advantage of love education, develop personalization education, develop child’s individuality, and raise different kinds of useful talent for the country;Adopt the scientific method of encouragement, guidance, and tolerance, develop the patient education, enhance the child’s self-respect, the self-confidence and the desire to do better unceasingly;

    (4)Follow closely development of the knowledge economy and the information age, further open up the family educational mentality, enhance opening consciousness, enhance the family educational compatibility; Solve the education tendency - “regard wisdom and belittle morality”, promote organic synthesis between intelligence factors and the non-intelligence factors, and educate the child to learn to study and seek knowledge; Inherit Chinese outstanding family educational tradition. Meanwhile the child must also face the world, absorb and introduce the quintessence foreign ideology and culture, and carry out the communication between Eastern and Western family education.

    【Conclusion 】 All in all, there are many differences between China and Western family education and each has its strong points and weak points. We should reject the dross and absorb the cream of them, advance the family educational modernization instantaneously.