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The main theoretical viewpoints of the new education movement
(1) The program of the new education movement is "life education", "respect for individuality" and "spontaneous learning".

(2) The new school emphasizes "activities" and "work" instead of "learning" or "books"; Emphasize the teaching of physical education, manual labor, modern language and agricultural craft gardening activities, and reform the traditional school education; Through free education, we can develop children's inner potential, cultivate students' observation ability, aesthetic ability and original spirit, and cultivate talents with initiative and creativity to meet the needs of social development.

(3) Pay attention to studying students' interests in the teaching of new schools. According to modern psychology, organize education according to the laws of children's physical and mental development, meet students' creative requirements, and cultivate children in line with modern material and spiritual life. Attach importance to modern humanities and natural science courses in teaching content; Based on children's personal experience, we should cultivate children's abilities through various kinds of education, emphasizing that intellectual education should focus on developing children's intelligence and research ability; Advocating that education should be linked with real life.

In teaching methods, we should educate children through the environment, attach importance to letting children be influenced by nature, oppose corporal punishment, and attach importance to the development of children's interest and thinking ability. Encourage children to move freely and independently. In moral education, we should convey bourgeois concepts of democracy, freedom and cooperation to children, and cultivate their sense of responsibility and enterprising spirit.

(4) The whole system emphasizes the development of students' independent spirit and intellectual education, especially encourages students to learn to solve problems by scientific methods; School autonomy also seeks to cultivate students' ability to organize social life.