Mr. Tao Xingzhi devoted his life to education and made a pioneering contribution to the modernization of education in China. He not only established a complete educational theory system, but also carried out a lot of educational practice.
Looking at Tao Xingzhi's educational thought, innovation is like a golden thread, which runs through Tao Xingzhi's educational thought from beginning to end. Innovation here refers to getting rid of the "old" that does not meet the needs of the development of the times and creating the "new" that conforms to the social and historical progress. Innovation also has the significance of breaking idols, superstitions, dogmas and rigid habitual thinking. ?
The innovation of Tao Xingzhi's educational thought is also manifested in the training goal. He pointed out that the new education should cultivate all-round "talents" in view of the phenomenon that the old education aimed at cultivating "talents". As early as when he founded Nanjing Anhui University, he put forward three educational goals for this school: learning knowledge and having scientific spirit; To transform the environment, we must have aesthetic artistic conception; When dealing with emergencies, you should have noble moral cultivation.
Tao Xingzhi's Four Sugar Stories
Tao Xingzhi has a story about educating students: a boy hit a boy in his class with mud. After being discovered by the principal Tao Xingzhi, he was ordered to go to the principal's office after school. After school, Tao Xingzhi came to the principal's office, and the boys were already waiting for training. But Tao Xingzhi smiled and took out a candy for him and said, "This is for you, because you came on time and I was late." The boy took the candy.
Then Tao Xingzhi happily took out the second candy and put it in his hand, saying, "This is a reward for you, because you stopped immediately when I didn't ask you to hit someone, which shows that you respect me very much and I should reward you." The boy looked at Tao Xingzhi in surprise.
At this time, Tao Xingzhi took out the third candy, stuffed it into the boy's hand and said, "I investigated." You beat those boys with mud because they bully girls; " You hit them, which shows that you are honest and kind, and have the courage to fight the bad guys. You deserve a reward! The boy was moved to tears and cried regretfully: "President Tao, I was wrong. I was not a bad guy, but my classmate ... "Tao Xingzhi smiled with satisfaction.
He immediately took out the fourth candy and handed it to me, saying, "I'll give you another candy so that you can correctly understand your mistakes." I have no candy, and our conversation can be over. "