青少年的劳动教育,历来是中外教育家极为关注的课题。但在我国中小学劳动教育中却呈现出了“以劳代教”和“以学代劳”的两种倾向,这与人们对劳动教育的偏见与漠视不无关系。笔者认为,中小学生劳动教育势在必行,劳动教育在促进学生智慧、培养学生品性、提高学生审美力以及对我国职业教育及社区文明等方面的价值应该重新引起全社会的广泛关注。 The labor education of young people has always been a topic of great concern to Chinese and foreign educators. However, in our country’s primary and secondary school labor education, we have shown two tendencies of “educating students through labor and moral education” and “learning from doing things”, which is not unrelated to prejudice and neglect of labor education. The author believes that primary and secondary school labor education is imperative. The value of labor education in promoting students’ wisdom, cultivating students’ qualities, improving students’ aesthetics, and vocational education and community civilization in our country should arouse widespread concern in the whole society.