Abstract: Against the backdrop of well-off times, hypocritical education is shaped by educational theories, public opinions, and school administrations. Characterized by student-centered stance, the pursuit of supreme happiness, the aim of personality liberation, and the means of education as services, hypocritical education deviates from fostering virtue through education. Although hypocritical education can easily create the scene of “modern education” where students are happy, parents are satisfied, and society are supportive, it actually distorts the essence of fostering virtue through education, and even cannot guide students in value and socialization anymore. To be specific, it causes teachers to be servers, who play with skills and cater to students, and pushes students to grow up as delicate egoists or fragile “giant babies”, who lack ideals and the sense of responsibility due to the one-sided emphasis on personality and happiness. To transcend the hypocritical education, restoring the educational essence and strength of fostering virtue through education is necessary. We should insist on replacing the student-centeredness with the student development-centeredness, and at the same time, the cooperation of various aspects of society is needed in improving the relevant legal system, so as to cultivate the immunity of the school and protect the self-esteem of teachers. All these endeavors would promote education modernization, stimulate schools' vitality and train socialist builders and successors with all-round ability in areas such as morals, intelligence, physical fitness, work and aesthetics who have the courage to undertake responsibilities along with the ability to act in the future world.

Key words: the hypocritical education, fostering virtue through education, well-off times, value guiding, students' development-centeredness