儒家社会历来将教育视作养成适宜的道德及行为的手段。在韩国古代李王朝(1392—1910),道德教育是各教育机构中最为重要的科目。它坚定不移地强调家庭,家族及整个大王国成员之间的“正确关系”,尤以长幼尊卑的垂直关系为重,强调子女对父母的诚意孝敬,臣民对皇帝的忠心服从。 Confucianism has traditionally viewed education as a means of developing appropriate morality and behavior. In Korea’s ancient Li Dynasty (1392-1910), moral education was the most important subject in all educational institutions. It unswervingly emphasizes the “correct relations” between families, families and members of the entire Great Kingdom, especially the vertical relations between elders and elders, emphasizing their children’s sincerity and filial piety to their parents and their subjective obedience to the emperor.