Abstract: The current educational practice in China is characterized by a variety of chaotic phenomena,such as the shallow educational significance,vague educational objectives,superficial knowledge connotation,fragmented knowledge teaching,dramatized teaching process,and formalized teacher-student communication.Deviated from the true meaning of education,they are essentially caused by a kind of perceptual ecstasy which is deeply eroded and dominated by the image-oriented thinking in the "age of image-reading".As a physiological perceptual way for people to understand the current image world,"image-oriented thinking" has penetrated into the educational field and caused serious harm to educational theory and practice.Facing up to the harmful effect brought about by image-dominated education,we must strive to return from the image-dominated education under the rule of vision to the education dominated by reason in the conceptual world,changing from "viewing" to "thinking" under the guidance of Plato's theory of "understanding the world with reason".

Key words: images, image-oriented thinking, image-dominated education, idealism