Cai Yuanpei, the father of modern education in China, studied in German and French for many times, studying philosophy, literature, aesthetics, psychology and cultural history, which laid an ideological and theoretical foundation for his reform of feudal education.

Cai Yuanpei adopts the teaching method of academy, with self-study as the main method. Students write notes every day and give them to the teacher for correction. At the end of the month, the teachers will conduct a test to evaluate A and B, and send them to the headmaster for identification.

The course arrangement is half a day's study, half a day's study of English and arithmetic, and physical education class.