Life is the center of education.
Mr. Tao Xingzhi believes that life is education and games are learning. It is proposed that the social life, natural phenomena, hometown production, local conditions and customs around the kindergarten should be taken as the content of compiling teaching materials, and the places that children can reach should be taken as the classroom, with the things that children can reach as the main content, so that children can learn from them, solve their own problems, organize their own games and cultivate their "energetic bodies and lively minds".
(2) Educational methods of teaching, learning and doing.
Mr. Tao Xingzhi resolutely opposes the separation of teaching and learning. He "saw the situation that teachers only discipline and students only study in domestic schools, and he decided that it was necessary to reform." He said: "Teaching, learning and doing are one thing, not three. We should teach while doing and go to school while doing. " "For example, if farming is to be done in the field, it is necessary to learn in the field and teach in the field. ..... doing is the center of learning, which is the center of teaching. " "If you don't work hard, you can't teach well and you can't learn well."
(3) Emancipate children's creativity
Mr. Tao Xingzhi believes that education should stimulate and liberate children's creativity and provide them with conditions and opportunities to use their hands and brains together. Specifically, it includes five aspects: ① Emancipate children's thoughts, and liberate children's thoughts from superstition, prejudice, misinterpretation and fantasy; (2) Emancipate the child's hands and give the child a chance to start work; (3) Liberate children's mouths and give them the freedom to speak, especially allowing them to ask questions; (4) Liberating children's space and letting them contact with nature and society; (5) Free children's time, give children time for their own study and activities, give children some free time to digest what they have learned, learn something they are eager to learn, and do something they are willing to do.