Tao Xingzhi is one of the important founders of modern education in China. His "student-oriented, people-oriented" educational philosophy has influenced China people from generation to generation.
Tao Xingzhi advocates that education should be close to life, serve reality, start from children's life experience, and take life itself as a teaching material to make the learning content as close as possible to students' actual needs and situations. He believes that life is the best classroom, students can learn a lot of knowledge and skills in life, and gradually realize the meaning and value of life in practice.