School essence and civic education are closely connected. School should be the site of civic education, that is, a community with love, community sense and democracy. School should be the home of love. Through loving students and being understood and accepted by students, school could make students become lovely people with love and the ability to love other people, and to enable students to have the in- ner motivation to create a democratic and just world. School should be an ethic community caring the need of every student and sharing its tra...