He believes that universities are "all-inclusive, and a hundred schools of thought contend". They should gather talents widely, accommodate various schools of academic thought, and let them contend and develop freely. It is impossible for academics to develop by sticking to conventions, grasping shortcomings, holding a one-hole view, keeping promises, and engaging in ideological autocracy.
Cai Yuanpei, also known as Heqing, also known as,,, formerly known as Apei, was born in Shanyin County, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province) with a ancestral home in Zhuji, Zhejiang Province. Revolutionaries, educators and politicians. The Democratic Progressive Party, the president of Peking University, innovated Peking University, and started the trend of "learning" and "freedom".
Cai Yuanpei is also the president of Sino-French University, who presided over the formulation of the first decree of modern higher education in China-University Order, and carried out the proposition of academic research. Cai Yuanpei went to Germany and France for many times to study philosophy, literature, aesthetics, psychology and cultural history, which laid an ideological and theoretical foundation for his commitment to reforming feudal education.
Mr. Cai Yuanpei's educational thought is the essence of China's traditional culture and the product of combining with modern western civilization, which has had a far-reaching impact on China's educational and ideological circles.
The pursuit of ideal personality by China traditional culture and freedom, democracy, equality and human rights by western modern civilization have been perfectly unified by Cai Yuanpei. Cai Yuanpei has injected new era connotation into the pursuit of ideal personality in China traditional culture, and has positive significance and contribution to the transformation of China ancient civilization into modern form.