If there exists an emotional mechanism with the assistance of which human beings are able to avoid harming others, to aid others to relieve their distress, to help others to obtain their happiness, adequate attention should be paid to it in the investigations of both morality and moral education. Based on this recognition, sympathy is chosen as the topic of this study. This paper is divided into three parts: to begin with, the significance of sympathy to moral life and moral education is expounded in the first section of this paper; then, the confusion and limitations inherent in the concept of sympathy are discussed in the second section; finally, this paper ends with some suggestions regarding sympathy in moral education. The suggestions put forward are as follows: to emphasize and cultivate the capacity or the state of readiness of sympathy, to promote the disposition or the attitude of participating in others' feelings, to correct the narrowness and partiality intrinsic in sympathy and to discriminate the easily-confused fellow-feeling, together with the development of intelligence and imagination.