Zhang Zhidong's Educational Thought Zhang Zhidong is an outstanding educator who has made outstanding contributions to educational reform, and is also a person with independent thoughts. In the late Qing Dynasty, the feudal society came to an end. In the chaotic period of the late Qing Dynasty, a man appeared, and this man was Zhang Zhidong. He formulated a series of measures in this critical period, which made China develop rapidly. Today I want to talk about Zhang Zhidong's achievements in education.

Zhang Zhidong promulgated Guimao Academic System, which is the constitution of the school in the modern academic system. The publication of this academic system has completely changed the imperial examination system in feudal society, and also announced the end of the imperial examination system since 1300, and a new educational mechanism is about to usher.

First of all, China people's bodies are used by the West.

Zhang Zhidong's educational philosophy is "middle school as the body, western learning for use". Students learn the study of Confucian classics and history first, and then learn other skills to make up for their own shortcomings and learn from each other's strengths.

Second, advocate the establishment of schools at all levels around the world.

Reform the old imperial examinations and private schools, set up new schools, set up kindergartens, ordinary schools, normal schools and industrial schools, and highlight the advantages of schools through different classifications. Just like kindergarten to primary school, middle school to high school and then to university for further study, the same idea.

Three, the establishment of workers, farmers, soldiers, businessmen and other schools.

Schools are not single, but the content is more subdivided. Schools related to agriculture, industry and commerce, including military schools and railway schools, can be described in more detail.

Zhang Zhidong's educational thought is similar to the current talent training requirements. Only by learning the basic re-learning skills well, slowly and steadily, can we cultivate outstanding talents. Zhang Zhidong vigorously developed new education and became the founder of modern education.

Zhang Zhidong's "Encouraging Learning" has two parts in history, one is Xunzi's masterpiece, and the other is Zhang Zhidong's ideological work. Born in 1837, Zhang Zhidong is the core figure of the Westernization School, and has been working hard for the Westernization Movement and education in his later period. Zhang Zhidong, Zeng Guofan and others are also known as the four famous ministers of yat sen villa, and their reputations are prominent. 1898, Zhang Zhidong published a work, which is a booklet, mainly discussing the importance of teaching traditional educational ideas to the study of Confucian classics and history. The book instills Zhang Zhidong's educational thought of "taking old learning as the body and new learning as the application".

The basic idea of Zhang Zhidong's exhortation is that the essence of education is to teach students to learn China classics and historical traditional classics. Only by learning these foundations well can we start other knowledge research. Therefore, in the priority of education, it is emphasized that we should take the lead in studying traditional Confucian classics and history, and then learn other useful knowledge on this basis to make up for the lack of knowledge.

In Zhang Zhidong's "Encouraging Learning", the content of middle school is divided into four parts: classics, history, books and collections, with special emphasis on Ming Gang, because Zhang Zhidong believes that the three cardinal guides and five permanent members are the origin of middle school. This also puts forward Zhang Zhidong's point of view, who opposes the constitutional monarchy of the reformists.

In the content of western learning, it can be summarized into three parts: western history, western art and western politics. Zhang Zhidong has always emphasized that "middle school is the body and western learning is the use", which strengthened the feudal monarchy in this way. Zhang Zhidong's thought is obviously conservative and reactionary.

The educational thought put forward in Zhang Zhidong's exhortation also promoted the development of modern education to a certain extent, which is also the value that Zhang Zhidong's exhortation brought to future generations.