Five education refers to five propositions: military nationalism education, materialism education, civic morality education, world outlook education and aesthetic education. This was put forward by Cai Yuanpei when he was the chief of education at the beginning of 19 12.
Five educations in the new period refer to moral education, intellectual education, physical education, aesthetic education and labor education put forward in Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Deepening Education and Teaching Reform and Improving the Quality of Compulsory Education in an All-round Way. He divided education into "subordinate to politics" and "beyond politics". Political education includes military national education, utilitarian education and moral education. Beyond politics are world outlook education and aesthetic education. He believes that two of the five kinds of education should not be neglected.
Cai Yuanpei s Contribution to Modern Education in China;
First, since Cai Yuanpei, China has formed a relatively complete bourgeois education thought and system.
Second, his idea of "freedom of thought and inclusiveness" made Peking University the birthplace of the new cultural movement and created conditions for the new democratic revolution.
Thirdly, he not only laid a solid foundation for the formation of China's modern bourgeois university education theory, but also had many profound insights, such as attaching importance to the scientific research work of universities, advocating "freedom of thought and inclusiveness", emphasizing the development of students' personality, advocating "communication of arts and sciences" and "relying on experts who know both education and learning to run schools democratically", which also had great influence on later generations.