Ye Shengtao was an outstanding educator in China in the 20th century. He has been engaged in education and teaching all his life for more than 70 years, and has experienced almost all the times of social change and the whole process of education reform in China in the 20th century. In addition, as a fighter, famous writer, publisher and social activist of the New Culture Movement, he has extremely rich and blended social practice and life accomplishment, thus forming his profound and distinctive educational thoughts.