董仲舒，是汉代儒学的奠基人，是中国儒学教化系统的真正创立者。董仲舒构建的以德教为核心的儒学理论和实践，使儒学由思想成为制度，从乡野走上殿堂，深刻影响着汉代及整个中国社会的发展，融入中国传统文化的思想主流；他同时构架起了汉代教化的基本脉络，使教化成为汉代文化的重要特征，儒学教化开始成为中国教化传统的主体基调。思想政治教育欲汲取传统之精华，则必须关注董仲舒之德教思想。 依汉初之时代背景，因教化之时代课题，董仲舒适时而动，应势而起，更新先秦及汉初之儒学，集诸子百家于大成，依托《春秋公羊传》而成《春秋繁露》，展开德教思想之理论构架。其后，董仲舒积极展开实践，“天人三策”应帝王，推动德教思想的制度化，在儒学制度化和制度儒学化、制度化儒学和儒学化制度的合理有效互动中实现了思想与王权的合谋共赢，汉代由此成为接受学术（儒学）指导的政权。 董仲舒以德教为核心之儒学理论和实践，深刻影响汉代乃至中国传统社会，并逐渐演变为中国传统教化的根本基调。其教化理论和实践赋予中华民族以儒学为核心的文化特征，奠定中华民族之政治格局、民族心理和文化结构，在事实上起到了塑造民族、塑造文化中国之功勋。董仲舒德教思想为当代思想政治教育和当代中国政治与社会生活提供了历史的启示、文化的资源以及方法的借鉴。 在董仲舒德教思想研究中，所采者以思想史的研究方法为主，就是坚持以中国思想文化之“本来面目”认识董仲舒，采取“以中释中”之模式，将董仲舒德教思想的观念、命题、范畴等置于中国思想文化系统中进行观照、解释，运用中国文化的价值标准、思维方式、问题意识、话语体系等范畴来研究和界定董仲舒思想，持“同情”、宽容、“独立”之研究理念，以期更为接近历史之“本来”与董仲舒思想之“本义”。

Dong Zhongshu is the founder of the Confucianism of Han Dynasty, and he is the real founder of the Confucian culture education system. The theory and practice of Confucianism, whose core is culture education, which are established by Dong zhongshu, turn Confucianism from a thought to a system, from the countryside to the palace. These profound influence on the development of the Han Dynasty and the whole society of China, and integrate into the mainstream of Chinese traditional culture; He also framed the basic context of the Confucian culture education of the Han Dynasty, which made culture education become an important characteristic of the culture of the Han Dynasty, this is the beginning when the Confucian culture education become the main tone of the Chinese education. If ideological and political education needs to absorb the traditional essence, it must pay attention to Dong Zhongshu's moralistic cultivation thoughts. According to the background of the early Han Dynasty, and the topic of the culture education of the times, Dong Zhongshu expands the theoretical framework by updating the Qin and the early Han Dynasty Confucianism, and writing Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals relying on The Spring and Autumn Annals. After that, Dong Zhongshu active practice by using the “Three strategies of heaven and man” to answering the emperor, and to promote the institutionalization of ideological indoctrination in Confucianism system and system of Confucianism, the institutionalization of Confucianism and Confucian system of reasonable and effective interaction the conspiracy win-win idea and the throne in Han Dynasty, thus become to accept the guidance of academic (Confucianism) regime. Dong Zhongshu to educate for the theory and practice of the core of Confucianism, had a profound impact on not only the Han Dynasty but also the Chinese traditional society, and gradually evolved for the fundamental tone of Chinese traditional education. The educational theory and practice gives the Chinese nation to Confucianism as the core of the cultural characteristics, lay the Chinese political pattern, national psychology and the cultural structure, which also shaping the feats of the Chinese culture. Dong Zhongshu's thought of culture education for the contemporary ideological and political education and contemporary Chinese political and social life provides culture education of history and culture resources as well as the method of reference. In the culture education thought of Dong Zhongshu and the thought history research method, is to insist to Chinese thought and culture of the "true" understanding of Dong Zhongshu, take "to release" model, the concept of Dong Zhongshu's thoughts of culture education, proposition, category, etc. under China's own ideology and culture system to observe, interpret, category of use value standard of the Chinese culture, way of thinking, problem awareness, discourse system to study and define the thoughts of Dong Zhongshu， to "sympathy", tolerance, the conception of "independence", in order to more close to history and Dong Zhongshu thought the original appearance.