Tao Xingzhi (189 1~ 1946) is a great educator in Chinese history. 189 1 year 1 month 18 was born in Shexian county, Anhui province. He was smart and studious since he was a child, and a teacher in a neighboring village decided that the child would surely achieve great things when he grew up, so he was allowed to study at school for free. On a snowy day, when he arrived at the school auditorium, the teacher had already started teaching. After class, he just stood outside the door and listened to the teacher attentively. This learning spirit touched everyone in the school. /kloc-in 0/906, he entered Chongyi School, a county missionary school, and studied English, mathematics, physics and chemistry for free, and began to accept the new education of the western bourgeoisie. However, because he has been living at the bottom of China society, he has deeply felt the sufferings of the people since he was a child. He paid special attention to the rural areas of China, and was determined to fight to change the miserable situation of poverty and backwardness and exploitation and oppression of farmers in China. So when I was studying in Chongyi School, I wrote the motto "I come from China and I want to make some contribution to China". 19 14 graduated from Jinling university and went to study in the United States. 1965438+Returned to China in 2007, served as a professor and director of educational affairs of Nanjing Normal University, and opposed "following the old law and being different from other countries". Promote civilian education. After the May 4th Movement, he engaged in mass education and founded Xiaozhuang Normal University. 1in April, 930, the reactionary Kuomintang government forcibly closed Xiaozhuang School on the pretext of "collusion, rebellion and conspiracy". Tao Xingzhi was wanted and forced to take temporary refuge in Japan. 193 1 in the spring of, Dow returned to Shanghai as a consultant for the comprehensive management office of Shenbao, which played a considerable role in the innovation of Shenbao at that time. Since 1932, Shanhai Project Group, Morning Exercise School Group and Migrant Children Group have been established successively. With Mr. Small as the initiative, the China Association for the Promotion of Universal Education was established, and the universal education movement of "spreading knowledge as soon as you know it" was launched. 1934 editing life education. In July, Tao Xingzhi officially announced that Zhixing was renamed Xingzhi. After the September 18th Incident, Tao Xingzhi actively engaged in the anti-Japanese national salvation movement. 1936 was elected executive member and standing Committee member of the National Salvation Federation. In July, Shen Junru, Zou Taofen and Zhang Naiqi jointly issued the Declaration of Unity against Aggression, and President Mao Zedong wrote back to support it. Then, entrusted by the National Salvation Federation, he served as a national diplomatic envoy, visited 28 countries and regions in Europe, the United States, Asia and Africa, attended the World Peace Conference, the seventh annual meeting of the World New Education Conference, the World Youth Conference and the World Anti-aggression Conference, and was elected as the Chinese executive member of the World Peace Conference. He has made outstanding contributions to the image of the Chinese nation on the international stage. 1In August, 938, Dow returned to China and passed through Hong Kong, advocating the establishment of "Chinese Amateur School" to promote Hong Kong compatriots to go to the national disaster together. 1939 In July, Yucai School was established in Gusheng Temple, near Chongqing, Sichuan, aiming at cultivating children with special talents. 1945, Tao Xingzhi was elected as the Standing Committee of the NLD Central Committee and Chairman of the Education Committee. 1946 65438+ 10 In October, Tao Xingzhi founded a social university in Chongqing to promote democratic education. After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, Tao Xingzhi returned to Shanghai and immediately devoted himself to the struggle against dictatorship, democracy, civil war and peace. Democratic fighters Li Gongpu and Wen Yiduo were assassinated by Kuomintang agents, and Tao Xingzhi was ranked third on the blacklist. While preparing for the sacrifice of "I am waiting for the third shot", he continued to struggle and always stood at the forefront of the democratic movement. 1On July 25th, 946, he died of cerebral hemorrhage due to "overwork, poor health and excessive stimulation" at the age of 55. Tao Xingzhi's life was spent in the autumn when the people were in poverty, the country was in great disaster and the nation was in danger. With a pure pillow, he shared joys and sorrows with the working people, forged an indissoluble bond with the people of * * *, worked hard for the people's education and the struggle for national liberation and democracy in China, and made indelible contributions. Mr. Tao's works are rich in content and elaborate, which are closely related to the current socialist pedagogy. He can be called a "generation giant" in the history of modern education in China. Tao Xingzhi belongs not only to China, but also to the world.