1923, Yan et al. initiated the establishment of China Civilian Education Promotion Association, and later set up civilian literacy reading offices and civilian schools in various places to promote the civilian education movement.
1932 founded the Shanhai engineering corps, proposing that "workers should keep healthy, students should learn to be bright, and students should be protected by the corps", integrating workshops, schools and society, and conducting military training, production training, civil rights training, and fertility training. And also launched the "Mr. Xiao" movement.
At the beginning of 1936, the National Society for Disaster Education was established and promoted to the position of president, with Zhang Jinfu as the director-general, and a national disaster education program was drawn up, combining life education with the struggle for national democratic revolution.
1945 1 month, Social University was established in Chongqing and served as its president, with Li Gongpu as its vice-president and provost. The aim of social university is "people create a big society and society becomes a university hall", and "the way of university lies in understanding people's morality, getting close to people and stopping at people's happiness", which has effectively promoted the process of democratic education. [
1946 65438+ 10 In October, Tao Xingzhi founded a social university in Chongqing to promote democratic education. Cultivate revolutionary talents. And help some progressive young people go to revolutionary base areas. He put forward famous slogans such as "Life is education", "Society is school" and "Teaching integration", which were called "great people educator" and "a generation model" by Mao Zedong and Soong Ching Ling.