Teach yourself by teaching others, and working hard on labor means that teaching others is also teaching yourself, and teaching should lead by example; Education should attach importance to practice, increase knowledge and cultivate sentiment in real life.

This sentence is a famous educator, Mr. Tao Xingzhi, who said something about normal education and influenced many educators.

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.