中小学是学习如何做人、如何明道、如何学习的关键时期;也是文化知识剧增、身心健康和谐发展的最佳时期。但现实生活中经常有网络媒体报道学生轻生事件,校园学生欺凌事件等漠视生命、无视人性这类恶性事件,为什么会出现这类事件呢?追根究底是因为他们对生命没有敬畏之心,教育缺失了对学生敬畏生命教育的一堂课。如何开展生命教育,使他们能尊重生命、敬畏生命呢?本文试图重点从思想观念、体制建设、教育教学三方面,对如何开展生命教育,以培养中小学生对生命的敬畏之心做初步的探讨。 Primary and secondary schools are a crucial period for learning how to behave, how to find out and how to learn. It is also the best period for the rapid increase of cultural knowledge and the healthy development of mind and body. However, in real life, there are often such incidents as online media coverage of student suicide and school-based student bullying ignoring life and disregard of human nature. The bottom line is that they have no fear of life and education Lack of a life-long lesson to students. How to carry out life education so that they can respect life and fear of life? This paper tries to focus on how to carry out life education from the aspects of ideology, system construction and education and teaching so as to cultivate primary and middle school students’ awe of life .