Abstract: As an indispensable method of educational management，the educational punishment is evidently different from the
corporal punishment or disguised corporal punishment in the aspect of essence. The aim of educational punishment lies in education， the methods of punishment require legitimacy and the effects of the punishment stress unity. For educational punishment. And its existence is not only necessary in legal principle，but also in practice. The educational punishment is the vocational demand of teacher，requirement for students' growth，and also the inevitable part of the schoolmanagement.Therefore，on the one hand，the guarantee of laws and regulations and supporting of school discipline are required to ensure the effective implementation of educational punishment. On the other hand，punishment ability of teachers need improving and communication with parents and school is reinforced to jointly promote the reasonable implementation of educational punishment

Key words: education in primary and secondaryschool, educational punishment, punishing education, punishment