Guangxi Provincial Teachers College is the first higher normal school in Guangxi. Founded in 1932, 10, 12, the school is located in Yanshan, Guilin. Today, the cornerstone of Guangxi Normal University is embedded in the building wall beside the waterside pavilion of Yanshan Park. Since then, it has been renamed six times, relocated eight times and adjusted four times.
1930, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi of the New Guangxi Family retreated to Guangxi after the defeat of the Jianggui War. In order to save themselves and accumulate strength, Xingui Department is ready to make a comeback one day, win the Central Plains and compete with Chiang Kai-shek again. On the one hand, consolidate the army, expand the regular army, train the militia and strengthen its strength; On the other hand, with the call of "building Guangxi and rejuvenating China", the so-called "313 accommodation" policy was implemented, the "Outline of Guangxi Construction" was promulgated, and the so-called "New Deal Policy" was implemented. They have set up party and government training institutes and scout training institutes to train political cadres for their own use. The establishment of Guangxi Normal University is also an important measure for the New Guangxi Department to train New Deal talents. Although this school is called Teachers College, it is not only to train middle school teachers, but also to meet the needs of Guangxi authorities' so-called "implementing the New Deal and appointing new people". The enrollment brochure of Guangxi Normal University clearly States: "It aims to train middle school education administrators and middle school teachers." They believe that only when a group of political backbones who serve themselves faithfully master the educational power in the four major constructions of "people, finance, education and construction" can they successfully implement their political programs. Guangxi Provincial Teachers College was born in the increasingly severe national crisis, and also in the gap between Guangxi and centralization. Although it didn't exist for a long time, its school spirit and the students it trained later had a considerable effect and influence in Guangxi.
1in the spring of 932, the Guangxi provincial government appointed Mr. Tang Xianzhi as the preparatory director of Guangxi Teachers College. Tang Xianzhi, a native of Guanyang County, Guangxi, graduated from Nanjing Normal University and has been engaged in education for many years. He had a certain position and reputation in Guangxi education at that time. Influenced by Mr. Tao Xingzhi's early educational thoughts, he advocated productive education and education to save the country. In his view, China is weak only because the people are poor, stupid, weak and selfish, and the fundamental solution is to do a good job in education. He requires students to have the skills of farmers, scientific minds and the spirit of missionaries. Therefore, he made a school emblem with the word "Tian" as the pattern for Guangxi Provincial Teachers College, and he only wanted to turn Guangxi Provincial Teachers College into Nanjing Xiaozhuang Normal School. Tang Xianzhi was honest, had a sense of justice and was dissatisfied with the social reality at that time. However, influenced by bourgeois democratic thoughts, he did not advocate students' participation in social and political activities and the transformation of China by revolutionary means.
Mr. Tang Xianzhi presided over Guangxi Normal University from the beginning of its preparation to the first enrollment. The first enrollment 120 students, starting in September 1932. The target of enrollment was originally young men and women who graduated from high school or had the equivalent education in high school and served in primary school for more than two years. However, due to the lack of high school graduates in Guangxi at that time, many young people yearned for further study in Guangxi University or outside the province. Most of the students admitted to Guangxi Provincial Teachers College are rural youths who have been primary school teachers and have poor families. They are generally older and have certain social experience.
Shortly after the opening of Guangxi Normal University, the Guangxi provincial government hired Yang Dongpu as the principal. At the grand opening ceremony of the school in the middle of May 438+10, Li Renren, director of the Education Department of Guangxi Provincial Government, solemnly announced the appointment of the provincial government and personally handed a school seal wrapped in HongLing to Yang Dongkui to show his trust and support.
From 65438 to 0936, Guangxi Normal University was merged into Guangxi University and became the Law School of Guangxi University (hereinafter referred to as Law School). 194 1 year to rebuild Guangxi Normal University. In the same year 1 1 monthly enrollment 1 10, more than 20 teachers were employed, and the principal was Zeng Zuozhong. 1 942 April1day, in order to meet the requirements of local people, the government of Guangxi Province merged Guangxi Provincial Teachers College and Guangxi Education College into Guangxi Provincial Guilin Teachers College.
On August 1943 and 1 day, the Central Ministry of Education decided to merge the teachers' professional courses of Guangxi University into Guilin Teachers' College and renamed it National Guilin Teachers' College, which is directly under the Central Ministry of Education and is responsible for training middle school teachers in southwest provinces. From 1943 to 1978, Guilin Normal University is the only university in Guangxi that trains teachers with bachelor degree.
1In the autumn of 946, the Central Ministry of Education decided to move Guilin Teachers College to Nanning. 1949 was renamed as National Nanning Teachers College in April. 1950 In February, the National Nanning Teachers College moved back to Guilin from Nanning, merged into Guangxi University again, and established Guangxi University Teachers College (hereinafter referred to as the College of Culture and Education).
1953, the national faculty adjustment, Guangxi University was ordered to cancel. In August of the same year, Guangxi Normal University was established in the original site of Guangxi University (Guilin Jiangjun Bridge). From 65438 to 0954, Guangxi Teachers College moved into Wangcheng (now Wangcheng Campus). 1976 established a branch school in Sanlidian (now Yucai Campus) in the eastern suburb of Guilin. On May 28th 1983, Guangxi Normal University was renamed Guangxi Normal University. In 2005, Guangxi Normal University established Yanshan Campus in Yanshan Town, Guilin City. Today, Guangxi Normal University has become one of the key universities in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.