【Abstract】In the highly competitive commercialized context, our test-oriented and curriculum-driven education has ignored its ‘human’ aspects, resulting in demoralizing effects and increasing campus violence, and suicide. By referring to the caring theory of Nel Noddings, this article claims that educators and teachers need to re-conceptualize our moral education and the relation in teaching, so as to produce caring and competent whole persons for transforming the values-distorted society.
　　【Key words】Education; caring theory; care ethics; Nel Noddings
　　【作者簡介】李平，安徽医科大学人文医学学院外语系。
　　1. Introduction
　　Nowadays, more and more mass standardized tests have been developed to strike the traditional meritocratic education, but such education has equated school education to factory management, ignoring the human responses and the caring needs of living students. In reality, too many highly proficient people commit fraud, pursue paths to success marked by greed, and care little about how their actions affect the lives of others. This undoubtedly reveals the failure of such inhuman education to produce democratic citizens who exhibit sound character, have a social conscience, think critically, are willing to make commitments, and are aware of global problems (Soder, Goodlad,