Tao Xingzhi is the most famous educator in modern China, who has served as a professor in several famous universities. However, professors and scholars emerged one after another in the Republic of China. Tao Xingzhi is the same as them, but different. Tao Xingzhi's choice undoubtedly made educators embark on a disastrous road. Tao Xingzhi put forward educational theories such as "life is education", "society is school" and "teaching integration". Combining western theories with China's national conditions is a pioneering work in China's education field.

From 65438 to 0926, Tao Xingzhi published the Declaration of China Education Reform Society on Reforming Rural Education in China. This declaration seems to be no big deal now, but at that time, it was still very advanced. At that time, no one paid attention to the education in rural areas, which accounted for the vast majority of people. It can be said that this declaration alone is enough to make eight Tao Xingzhi occupy high positions. This is a revolution in education in China.

Tao Xingzhi devoted his life to education and national liberation movement. During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Tao Xingzhi's educational action did not stop. Despite all the difficulties, he had to engage in education. He organized and participated in several educational organizations, the most famous of which was the National Society for Disaster Education.

Tao Xingzhi struggled all his life, and finally broke down from overwork, and he was sad because of his friend's accident. His serious illness shook the whole of China, and almost all political parties expressed their condolences, including people like Zhou Enlai and Soong Ching Ling. Finally, Tao Xingzhi died and Soong Ching Ling wrote a masterpiece. Mao Zedong called him a great educator, and even later generations called him the last saint.

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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. ?

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