During the Republic of China, China's educational thoughts were greatly influenced by western countries, and he mainly introduced the following advanced western educational thoughts: Cai Yuanpei was in charge of Peking University, and in view of the serious bureaucratic habits of Peking University, students studied for profit, "he began to adopt the educational policies and systems of universities in western capitalist countries to replace the decadent feudal things of Peking University. The purpose of running a university is to study knowledge and cultivate talents. Absorbing western democracy, freedom and equality is the spiritual essence of modern western university management. Democracy, freedom and equality are the principles for managing and developing universities. Introduce western preschool education ideas, attach importance to women's education and preschool education, and make preschool education institutions formally incorporated into the academic system. Established preschool education in the Republic of China.

In the early Republic of China, China was extremely chaotic and turbulent. However, modern university education in China has sprung up suddenly and is unstoppable. In the early years of the Republic of China, Cai Yuanpei, Ma, Jiang Menglin, Zhang Boling, Zhang Xueliang and others, whether educators or university presidents, extensively absorbed the ideas and experiences of university education in advanced countries in the world, combined with China's national conditions, and formed a common concept of modern university education through rational thinking and analysis.

Education in the Republic of China is an important part of China's modernization, which has played a historical role in the process of China's educational modernization. It still has a deep-rooted influence on contemporary China's educational thought.