社会信任何以可教

How Can Social Trust Be Taught?

The cultivation of social trust is a systematic project of the whole society. Clarifying the function scope of school education s the premise of executing ts function. The individual trust relationship needs to change from a special interpersonal relationship into a universal social trust in the context of modernity. The key d i ference between social trust and interpersonal trust s that social trust has a considerable degree of stability and w il not lose confidence in most people because of individual events. Therefore， school education has the possibility of cultivating individual social trust. In the school context， the inter- generational exchange of values， the acquisition of general communication media and the continuous experience of being trusted are the factors that affect the development of individual social trust. According to this， the school educational system should cultivate individual qualities related to social trust.