2. Known as "China's Flobel" and "the father of early childhood education in China", it was a famous early childhood educator in China in the 1920s and 1930s, and it was also called "South Chen and North Zhang" with Zhang Xuemen, who was also an educator. Representative works include "Research on Child Psychology" and "Family Education". Chen Heqin founded Gulou Kindergarten, the first experimental kindergarten in China, on 1923. From 65438 to 0940, he founded Jiangxi Experimental Kindergarten, the first public experimental preschool normal school in China. Chen Heqin advocated the theoretical system of "life education".
3. Tao Xingzhi, a pragmatic educator represented by Educational Reform in China and Essays on the Integration of Teaching, Learning and Doing, criticized "foreign disease", "spending money disease" and "having money disease" in his criticism of preschool education institutions in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China; At the same time, he also put forward the theory of "life education"-"life is education", "society is school" and "teaching integration".