The middle school affiliated to Beijing Normal University, formerly known as Beijing 50% School, is the earliest public middle school in China. After becoming a secondary school attached to Normal University, you should be more qualified to undertake the heavy responsibility of creating secondary education. However, due to conservative leadership, many questions and great opinions from teachers and students, student surges often occur, making it a place where few people dare to ask. In order to rectify and run the affiliated middle school well, the president of Beijing Normal University plans to appoint Lin as the director (principal) of the affiliated middle school. 1922 September, Lin officially took office. In his inaugural speech, he pointed out that middle school education is a holistic personality education, and its basic task is cultural education, which is the highest level of general cultural literacy that people need. He tried out the six-three-three academic system, changing the original seven-year primary school and four-year middle school into six-year primary school, three-year junior high school and three-year senior high school. In order to adapt to the new educational system, he organized teachers to formulate rules and regulations and teaching plans, compile teaching villages, draft them themselves, try them out and revise them themselves, thus forming an atmosphere of courage and responsibility. At the same time, comprehensively rectify the school spirit and style of study, and advocate the friendship and mutual assistance between teachers and students. In view of the practice that education was divorced from reality in the past, he proposed that education should pay attention to life, cultivate students' ability to find and solve problems, and attach importance to giving students systematic scientific knowledge. He added a second foreign language, analytic geometry, elementary calculus, elementary mechanics, electromagnetism, analytical chemistry and other courses. In the high school stage, at the same time, physical education has been popularized throughout the school. In addition, some knowledgeable and innovative new teachers have been hired. Through this series of efforts, the atmosphere and quality of the middle school attached to Normal University have been improved and become the envy of the whole country. During his tenure as the director of the middle school attached to Normal University, he submitted the draft education law to the then Congress twice in 1922 and 1925, trying to win constitutional protection for the education cause, but both ended in failure.
Leave Beijing Normal University
From 65438 to 0928, Beijing Normal University was merged into Beiping University, renamed as the First Normal College, and Lin served as the chairman of the temporary Council. He set out to reform the First Normal College, set up a sociology department, and supported teachers and students to participate in social progress activities. The authorities don't tolerate his practice. By 193 1, the Ministry of Education of the Kuomintang decided to strictly rectify the First Normal College, stop enrolling students for one year, and dismiss Lin from his post and send a new principal. Lin angrily left the First Normal University and went south to Guangzhou to be a professor and provost at Sun Yat-sen University. Soon he also served as the principal of Guangzhou Normal School.
Co-founded Qin Qin University and began to take part in the revolution.
1933, the Guangdong provincial government established Qinqin University in memory of Gu Yingfen, and Lin was invited to participate in the preparatory work. After the establishment of the University, Lin Yun, then the president of Guangdong Province, served as the president. He was the provost and dean of the College of Education. 65438-0937, Qinqin University College of Education became the Guangdong Provincial College of Education independently. Later, it was changed to Guangdong University of Arts and Sciences, and he continued to serve as the dean. On the basis of this college, he carried out educational reform more freely, broke the routine in curriculum setting and added a number of public compulsory courses, such as new philosophy, economics, history of modern economic theory, international politics, history of world revolution and so on. A number of progressive professors, such as Jiang Jingsan, Li, Gao Juefu and Chen Shoushi, were invited to teach in our school, and famous democrats Zou Taofen, Qian Junrui and Yang Dongkui were also invited to give lectures. He advocates freedom of thought and academic research, and students can organize various societies and discuss various issues. He also led teachers and students to the countryside to carry out anti-Japanese propaganda and carry out anti-Japanese and national salvation activities.
The Kuomintang authorities persecuted Mr. Wang.
The Kuomintang authorities were very dissatisfied with Lin's practice and sent people to the school to find fault, accusing the Institute of Education of not offering courses such as new philosophy and international politics. Lin changed "New Philosophy" to "Philosophy of Education", the content remained unchanged, and all the original departments and teachers were retained. The Kuomintang authorities once again sent personnel to the school to set up a training office and a Kuomintang branch. Lin agreed with the opinion of progressive teachers that a professor should concurrently be the subject director and the secretary of the Kuomintang division, and hung up the signs of the subject office and the Kuomintang division. In fact, no activities were carried out, which made it impossible for the Kuomintang authorities to directly intervene in the school work.
In May, the Kuomintang authorities ordered the reorganization of the College of Arts and Sciences and dismissed Lin. The news spread and the whole school was angry. Teachers and students spontaneously set up a forest-pulling Committee, held a huge forest-pulling conference, and sent a teacher delegation to Shaoguan to petition the provincial government, demanding that the provincial government withdraw its appointment right and electrify the whole country. The students also collectively created "The Battle Hymn of Lin Wan":
The wind is coming, and the rain is coming!
Our school is teetering in the storm,
Our life is ups and downs in the wind and rain.
Dear students, unite!
Our life is ups and downs in the wind and rain.
My dear classmates, unite,
Stand up,
Enlarge our eyes,
We are determined to keep Dean Lin!
Dean Lin is a bright light in education.
Dean Lin is the nanny of young people.
Eight years, consistent style,
Explore the truth and pursue the light.
Dear students, unite!
Stand up,
Enlarge our eyes,
We are determined to keep Dean Lin!
In the face of this student movement, Kuomintang reactionaries were so scared that even those sent to replace Lin did not dare to take the stage. The authorities adopted a high-handed policy and arrested and expelled many students. But the teachers and students were fearless and kept fighting for more than two months.
Guilin gave lectures and published many books.
194 1 year1October, Lin came to Guilin as the tutor of Guangxi Education College; In April of the following year, he served as professor and provost of the National Guilin Teachers College. He knew that he had been closely watched by the Kuomintang secret service, and it was impossible to do anything vigorous again. So he posted a pair of couplets in front of his house, and the school is still worthy of being a villain. He continued to publicize the idea of educational reform by writing books. From 194 1 to 1945, we have published How to be a school principal, Theory of Spiritual Shafting, National Liberation Movement and National Education in China, Evaluation of the May 4th Movement, Route of August 27th, Child Care and Humanity Transformation, and Training Scholars. In "The Theory of Mental Shafting", he pointed out: To guide young people, we should not rely on authoritative departments, and we should not rely on netting. Instead, we should understand young people, make sincere friends with them and participate in social practice together. After this article was published in Culture magazine, it stung some people in the Kuomintang authorities and forced Culture magazine to stop publishing. In the August 27 th Route, he continued to preach academic freedom, seek truth and clarify right and wrong. He believed that students should respect teachers, but they could doubt and criticize teachers' theories and teachings. His remarks aroused the dissatisfaction of the Kuomintang authorities, and the spy repeatedly threatened him with anonymous letters, but he ignored them. From 65438 to 0944, he wrote the book Philosophy of Education.
Join the democratic movement
After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, the Kuomintang engaged in dictatorship and launched a civil war. Lin couldn't sit still any longer and devoted himself to the democratic movement. 1946, he resolutely joined the NLD despite the intimidation of Kuomintang spies. In order to control Guilin Normal University, the Kuomintang reactionaries decided to move the college to Nanning and change its president. Lin resigned angrily. At this time, he was suffering from nephritis and went back to Guangzhou for treatment. From August 65438 to August 0947, he became a professor at Xiamen University.
As an important education official of the new China government.
From April 6, 438 to April 0949, Lin left Xiamen University and went to Beijing via Hong Kong to attend the new preparatory work and the first plenary session, and was elected as a member of the first National Committee. Then, he served as the director of the secondary education department of the Ministry of Education of the Central People's Government and the president of Beijing Normal University. Vice minister of education from 65438 to 0952. And was elected as the first, second and third NPC deputies. Facing the new China education, he devoted himself to his work, presided over the drafting of the Provisional Regulations for Middle Schools and the Provisional Regulations for Teachers, conducted a series of investigations and studies on children's education, middle school education, ethnic education and other issues, and wrote Two Problems in Middle School Education, Understanding Children is the Premise of Education, and Teaching Students in Accordance with Their Individuality. 10, on behalf of our government, Lin signed the Protocol on Establishing Schools in China. From 6: 438 to 9: 59, he led an education delegation from China to visit the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam.
196 1 year, forest esophageal cancer over 70 years old has just recovered, and led a working group to Jilin to investigate and study the educational system and teaching plan of normal schools. From 65438 to 0963, he participated in the symposium on running a school in Tianjin and the conference on ethnic education in Yunnan, and then went deep into Yunnan and Guangxi for investigation and research. During this period, he also wrote essays on normal education, Chinese teachers being both teachers and how to treat school exams, and put forward many new opinions. For example, in How to Treat School Examinations, he pointed out: What happens in life, you have to do, and when you encounter problems, you have to solve them, only by all your knowledge and talents. Life is like this, never too old to learn, never too old to learn, never too old to learn. This is not terrible. Fear of exams is almost equal to fear of life. I have never heard of anyone who is afraid of life, and most students in school are afraid of exams. What is the reason? It is worth pondering. It is natural for capable people to be eager to try, but the school has turned exams into students' fears. Why is it safe? A teacher should reflect deeply. However, due to historical reasons, these discussions on Lin failed to continue.