Author(s): MA Wei
Pages: 45-48
Year: 2013 Issue:  4
Journal: Journal of Shanxi College For Youth Administrators
Keyword:  education; public education; basic duty; national identification;
Abstract: Nowadays, receiving education has been regulated in constitution, as a basic right and duty. Public education has become the basic idea in education. However, there is a tense relationship between citizens’ right and receiving education, which includes public education and is regulated in constitution as a basic duty and the original cognition of education. Duty indicates people are forced to receive education, which is opposite to citizens’ autonomy and freedom to make choices. To citizens, the ideology choice and national identification included in public education is not the best way to realize their individual and free development. Therefore, according to constitution, the education received by citizen can only be at the lowest level, while there should not be too much ideological control in content. When keeping national identification at the lowest level, we should treat individual citizens and the country as communities related to each other. Citizens should keep their independence, while the country should respect citizens’ automatic spirit.