19 12 19 10/9. In the first year of the Republic of China, the Interim Measures for General Education was promulgated, and the University Order and the Middle School Order were presided over, which was the first university and middle school order in China. He stressed that middle schools and universities should be built into schools with sound citizens. As the chief education officer of the Nanjing Provisional Government, he advocated adopting the western education system, abolishing the worship of Confucius and reading classics, and implementing co-education and other reform measures, and established the bourgeois democratic education system in China. After the failure of the second revolution, he went to France with his family and founded a work-study program in France with Li Shizeng.
19 17 10 In the sixth year of the Republic of China, when Cai Yuanpei was 50 years old, he presided over a meeting of representatives of various institutions of higher learning in Beijing to discuss the revision of the university's articles of association. Peking University Cowen put forward a proposal to cancel the grade system and adopt the elective system, which was adopted at the meeting and decided to try it out in Peking University. The elective system of Peking University stipulates that after one year of study, one class hour per week is a unit, and 80 units must be completed for undergraduate students, half of which are compulsory and half of which are elective (science is reduced as appropriate), and they can graduate after completion, regardless of the number of years; The preparatory course has to complete 40 units, of which compulsory courses account for three quarters and elective courses account for one quarter. Elective subjects can cross departments.
In 19 18, he pointed out more clearly: "A university is an institution that purely studies knowledge, and it cannot be used as a place to cultivate qualifications or sell knowledge. Scholars should be interested in studying knowledge, especially cultivating the personality of scholars. "
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Cai Yuanpei, also known as Heqing, also known as,,, formerly known as Apei, was born in Shanyin County, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province) with a ancestral home in Zhuji, Zhejiang Province. Educators, revolutionaries and politicians. Democratic Progressive Party, member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, member of the National Government and president of the Supervisory Institute. The first director of education of the Republic of China.
19 16 to 1927 as the president of Peking university, innovating Peking university and opening the wind of "academic" and "freedom"; From 1920 to 1930, Cai Yuanpei was also the president of Sino-French University. In his early years, he participated in the struggle against the imperial system of the Qing Dynasty and presided over the formulation of the first decree of modern higher education in China-the University Order in the early years of the Republic of China.
During the Northern Expedition, after the National Government made Nanjing its capital, it presided over the Education Administration Committee, established the University of the Republic of China and Academia Sinica, and led the reform of education and academic system. 1927, participated in the "movement to protect the country and save the party", thinking that the party should be eliminated, but opposed to killing. 1928- 1940 was appointed as the full-time president of academia sinica to carry out the proposition of academic research. Cai Yuanpei went to Germany and France for many times to study philosophy, literature, aesthetics, psychology and cultural history, which laid an ideological and theoretical foundation for his commitment to reforming feudal education. 1933, Cai Yuanpei initiated the establishment of the National Central Museum and personally served as the chairman of the first Council. 1940 died in Hong Kong on March 5th. Bury the Chinese cemetery at the top of Aberdeen Mountain.
Reference: Cai Yuanpei-Baidu Encyclopedia