In the late Qing Dynasty, she was the highest institution of higher learning and education center in Jiangsu Province. The name of "Nanjing" comes from Zhu's sentence "Ziyou Ancestral Hall", which is characterized by "simplifying" southern learning, advocating practical learning for practical use, building a new style of study and a new school of thought, and achieving "southern essence, born here".
After the Revolution of 1911, Nanjing was renamed "Jiangsu Public Nanjing School". Zhang Jian, the first chairman of the school's management Committee, wrote an inscription for the school motto "loyalty, forgiveness and diligence", and wrote accordingly: loyalty and forgiveness are the way to treat others, and diligence is the foundation of success. Nanjing school has changed its name and location several times, but the cultural tradition and essence of running a school have never changed. The school adheres to the educational concept of cultivating future strong people for the country, takes students' lifelong development as the educational goal, attaches importance to cultivating students' patriotism and practical ability, and enables students to develop in an all-round way.
The distinctive features of Nanjing education are "independence first", "discipline cultivation", "aesthetic edification" and "both wisdom and courage" "Let culture lead the development of the school" is the guiding ideology of the school, and "Culture leading, quality-oriented, brand building and overall improvement" is the development strategy of the school. Schools cultivate students' abilities of independent learning, independent management and independent innovation, and lay a foundation for students' all-round development. Every year, there are about 50 people who won the first prize in the national Olympic Games, about 50 people in the independent entrance examination of key universities 100, about 50 people in Tsinghua Peking University 10, and about 50 people in top universities in Europe and America. With solid theoretical knowledge, open thinking ability and good comprehensive quality, Nanjing student Gao Qi became the first person in Jiangsu to enjoy a 60-point Tsinghua drop.
Nanjing has established educational cooperative relations with 10 countries, offered American courses throughout the province, cooperated with New Oriental in all directions, and made a new step in internationalization, providing students with diversified educational environment and life choice opportunities. 20 10 the first batch of students who cooperated with new oriental were all admitted to the first-class universities in the United States, and American courses were also reported frequently. Many students, such as Zhou He, were admitted to the Summer School of Harvard University.
The school has comprehensively promoted the new curriculum reform, intensified the development of school-based courses and introduced European and American courses. More than 50 elective courses and research-based learning courses, such as Selected Reading of A Dream of Red Mansions, Science and Practice, Exploring the Mysteries of Natural Science, European and American Culture and California Curriculum, provide students with sufficient course choices and promote their all-round development.
In August 2009, with the common concern of the municipal government and the people of the whole city, a new Nanjing with an area of 308 mu and an investment of nearly 500 million yuan was put into use, integrating ecology, humanities and digitalization. The modern central axis of the new Nanjing highlights the vigorous vitality of the school and the magnificent and beautiful architecture; The historical axis exudes an intoxicating academy atmosphere, and the building is simple and heavy. Tang Zong ancient well, the morning bell is full of sunrise, swans play, beautiful. The cultural landscape of the College Monument Gallery, Shen Peng Art Museum, Zheng Xue Pavilion and Shu Wei Pavilion is in harmony with the natural landscape. Modern facilities such as digital laboratory, multimedia management platform, interactive electronic whiteboard and multifunctional microteaching room complement teachers' advanced educational ideas and exquisite teaching art.
Nanjing is taking the opening of the new campus and accelerating the implementation of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan as an opportunity, and taking the development strategy of "culture-oriented, quality-oriented, characteristic construction and innovative development", constantly accelerating the pace of establishing five-star schools in Jiangsu Province, and striving to build domestic first-class modern middle schools with international influence.