Abstract:Negative education means that the educators restrict or deny, criticize and correct the children’s misconduct in appropriate ways, which aims at helping the children transform misconceptions and eliminate misconduct. Negative education is an irreplaceable and essential method in the education of regulating the children’s behaviors. The children’s learning and growing up accompanied by mistakes and the main purpose of negative education is to help the children make less mistakes as well as modify and improve the existing problems. In fact, negative education brings the children a kind of difficulty and adversity, lets them involve into the conflicts of value choices, makes them get deep psychological experience in the process of solving problems and assists them in generating and promoting the abilities of coping difficulties and adversities. And this is the meaning and significance of negative education. Employing negative education must understand that negative education both stems from and serves for education. The use of negative education bases on the the value of respecting and caring for the children, follows the principle of appropriateness and always adheres to the prudent attitude.