That is, a person with noble moral character can become a teacher and a person with profound knowledge can become a model. "Speaking high is a teacher and being a teacher" means that people with advanced words become teachers and those with correct behavior become role models; Teachers and models mean teachers and models.

"Learn to be a teacher and be a model" is a famous saying of Mr. Tao Xingzhi. Learning to be a teacher is to be an example: that is, to be an example is to be a teacher. He said that as a qualified teacher, in addition to solid professional knowledge and high cultural level, it is more important to require teachers to have good moral quality.

Tao Xingzhi pointed out: "Teachers' moral quality is not only the need to regulate their own behavior, but more importantly, it is used to educate students. The specialty of teachers' profession lies in educating people. They should not only have their own knowledge, but also have their own moral educators. They should not only impart knowledge through their own language, but also shape students' souls with their own souls.

They are all famous sayings of self-cultivation, meaning that teachers are the representatives of wisdom and the embodiment of noble personality in the eyes of students, and what teachers say and do are moral standards. Therefore, people give people's teachers the lofty title of "the teacher of human soul project".

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Mr. Tao Xingzhi devoted his life to education and made a pioneering contribution to the modernization of education in China. He not only established a complete educational theory system, but also carried out a lot of educational practice. Looking at Tao Xingzhi's educational thought, innovation is like a golden thread, which runs through Tao Xingzhi's educational thought from beginning to end.

Innovation here refers to getting rid of the "old" that does not meet the needs of the development of the times and creating the "new" that conforms to the social and historical progress. Innovation also has the significance of breaking idols, superstitions, dogmas and rigid habitual thinking. The innovation of Tao Xingzhi's educational thought is also manifested in the training goal.

He pointed out that the new education should cultivate all-round "talents" in view of the phenomenon that the old education aimed at cultivating "talents". As early as when he founded Nanjing Anhui University, he put forward three educational goals for this school: learning knowledge and having scientific spirit; To transform the environment, we must have aesthetic artistic conception; When dealing with emergencies, you should have noble moral cultivation.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Tao Xingzhi