"Life Education" absorbed Dewey's pragmatic education content, and also considered the background and national conditions of China at that time. It is a creative, absorbing and innovative educational thought. He paid attention to the cultivation of initiative and creativity, and played a positive role against the disadvantages of the old educational tradition in old China.

The theory of "life education" is the core of Mr. Chen Heqin's educational thought. This theory not only absorbs the correct proposition of "respecting children and attaching importance to practice" in Dewey's pragmatic education theory, but also advocates that children find problems by their own wisdom and independent thinking, learn knowledge and accumulate experience through doing.

Curriculum implementation

On the basis of long-term research on preschool children's psychology and education, Chen Heqin put forward the curriculum organization law suitable for preschool children's development, that is, "holistic teaching method". Chen Heqin believes that "holistic teaching method is to teach children what they should learn completely and systematically."

Because the life and development of preschool children are integrated, and the role of external environment also affects children in an integrated way, the courses designed for children must also be integrated, interrelated, rather than separated from each other.