Since China’s entry into modern society, especially since reform and opening door, school education in China is disposed more and more by modernity. With the loss of spiritual backbone and pillar of their own, schools are on the edge of exhaust to laboriously cope with expectations and demands from all respects. Honestly speaking, the present spiritual dilemma of Chinese schools has resulted from the powerful constraint of state reasoning, overstrengthening of individual survival logic, and an ascending psychology with individual soul lost. To improve the situation, Chinese school education ought to regain its spiritual object, develop the conception of limited school function and adjust the relationship between children and adults to develop a sense of native development.

school education; spiritual dilemma; modernity