Tao Xingzhi is from Shexian County, Anhui Province. 65438-0908 17 years old was admitted to Hangzhou Guangji Medical Hall. 19 15 entered Columbia university, studied under john dewey, and studied for a doctorate in education.

1965438+returned to China in the autumn of 2007, and successively served as a professor and academic director of Nanjing Normal University, National Southeast University. Starting from 1926, the Declaration of China Education Reform Society on Transforming Rural Education in China was issued. 1in March, 927, Xiaozhuang School, a rural normal school, was founded in Xiaozhuang, a northern suburb of Nanjing, and the first rural kindergarten, Yanziji Kindergarten, was founded.

Tao Xingzhi's contribution:

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.