Cai Yuanpei believes that military national education and materialism education are of course important, but only military national education and materialism education are not enough, and they must be "taught by civic morality." "What is civic morality? The French Revolution was also advertised as freedom, equality and fraternity. The essence of morality is enough. "
It can be seen that Cai Yuanpei advocates the moral concept of the western bourgeoisie and advocates the bourgeois morality of freedom, equality and fraternity as the content of moral education.
"Pure aesthetic education, so Tao cultivates our feelings, makes us have noble and pure habits, and makes people's opinions, selfish interests and selfish thoughts gradually disappear."
Cai Yuanpei is the "only key task" to advocate aesthetic education in modern history of China. He believes that aesthetic education is the most important way to educate the world outlook and the only bridge that people must cross from the phenomenal world to the physical world.
It is precisely because aesthetic education has the characteristics of cultivating people's feelings and making people's moral quality noble and pure.
"You come here to study, it must be purposeful. To be fair, we must predict the nature of universities. Nowadays, it is inevitable that people will succeed in their studies when they run special schools. But this is not the case in universities, and those who learn advanced knowledge are also great scholars. "
Cai Yuanpei believes that universities should become institutions of higher learning, which is the guiding ideology of Cai Yuanpei's running a school and the starting point of his thoughts on university education.
Cai Yuanpei's Idea of Running a School —— Freedom of Thought and Compatibility
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