Given the communicative situation of current society with the upcoming Artificial Intelligence (AI) era or the Fourth Revolution, future speech education must be reconstituted based on the essential question: why must we listen and speak in a certain way? This study critically discusses various theories on “listening·speaking” and “caring” to adapt “caring thinking,” which is recently explored in Korean language education and other fields, into the listening·speaking education. Further, a communication model is developed to reflect the intentions of listening·speaking education. The model is based on the characteristics of elementary school education which sets forming a desirable personality of learners as its aim. It is also derived from the awareness that Korean language education is a basic subject of thinking and the activity of listening/speaking is the core part of the acts of caring. The study consists of two main subjects. First, it suggests a model of communication for elementary listening·speaking education which is manipulated to activate caring thinking as the filter before creative thinking or critical thinking that have been conventionally emphasized in Korean language education. Second, it discusses the direction for the contents and means of the future listening·speaking education. Along with self-reflection on Korean language education which has mainly stressed rationality and efficiency, this study is part of the efforts to materialize a new direction for listening·speaking education for future generations.