When Pan Wei was 6 years old, he began to read the Four Books and Five Classics in the Mongolian Museum run by his father. In the late Qing dynasty, the imperial examination was abolished and learning was promoted. During the reform of the old and new education system, he went through many twists and turns, and finally was admitted to Changzhou Jiangsu No.5 Middle School with excellent results. He was a third-year placement student. He is clever and diligent. When I was a teenager, I read many works of pre-Qin philosophers and Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties, and was deeply attracted by the profound thoughts of the sages. He especially envied the profound knowledge of Zhu, a philosopher in the Song Dynasty, and hoped to become a great scholar like Zhu in the future. He has a wide range of interests and a good writing style. He also likes calligraphy, art and seal cutting. At the end of each semester, his name always appears in the top two of the red list published by the school. Principal Tong and later principal Cai Yuanpei appreciated his eagerness to learn and versatility, and wrote banners for him as gifts.
19 17 After graduating from high school, Pan Fu skipped the two-year preparatory course, applied for the philosophy department of Peking University, and got the undergraduate course directly with excellent results. He studied in Peking University for several years when Cai Yuanpei was the principal and during the May 4th Movement. He took an active part in the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal revolutionary movement with great patriotic enthusiasm and was one of the 32 patriotic youths arrested. This movement made him understand a truth: an important reason why imperialism always bullies us is that our country is too weak and backward. To make our country strong, we must vigorously develop education.
1920, I got the official fee for studying abroad after graduating from college. Based on the idea of "saving the country through education" and the fact that Dewey, an American educator and philosopher, had previously given lectures in China, he became interested in education and decided to study education in the United States.
192 1 arrived in the United States and studied pedagogy at the University of California. Soon, my mind changed. I transferred to Indiana University to study psychology and got a master's degree. 1923, he was transferred to the university of Chicago, in h? Under the guidance of Professor Karl, he completed the thesis "The Influence of Background on Learning and Memory" on 1926, and obtained his doctorate.
1927, Pan Yi returned to China and was employed as an associate professor in the earliest psychology department-Sun Yat-sen University (later renamed Central University). Half a year later, he was promoted to professor and concurrently served as the head of the psychology department. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the departments of universities in East China were adjusted, and the Central University was adjusted to Nanjing University. Pan Wei used to be the head of the psychology department, dean, chairman of the school committee and president of NTU, and was transferred to the Institute of Psychology of Chinese Academy of Sciences as the director on 1956, where he taught for more than 30 years.
Because of the complexity of the psychological research object itself and China's specific social conditions, as he himself said, the road he has traveled in psychology in the past 60 or 70 years is "not a ready-made broad road, but like a path in the mountains, which is quite rugged and sometimes difficult." In his later years, in a commentary entitled My Psychological Course, he roughly divided his academic career into six stages, namely, ten years of determination, ten years of hesitation, ten years of exploration, ten years of dependence on others, ten years of self-improvement and ten years of communication. Pan Wei is a psychologist who grew up with China's modern psychology. His psychological road can be described as a microcosm of the historical development of China's modern psychology. His spirit of struggle is also a model for the older generation of psychologists in China.
Pan Wei first came into contact with psychology when he was studying in Peking University. His first psychology teacher was Professor Chen Daqi. At that time, China's psychology was still in its infancy. In the 1920s, when he decided to step into the threshold of psychological science hall, it was a period of intense debate among many psychological factions in the world, with different opinions. This situation makes him feel that psychology is not like a real science. However, this not only did not shake his intention to devote himself to this science, but made him determined to change this situation and make psychology a real and worthy of the name. Pan Wei studied in the United States for six years and studied in three universities successively. I studied at the University of California first, and then transferred to Indiana University after one semester, where the cost of living was lower. Under the guidance of Professor Kantar, I did a research on Chinese character psychology and got a master's degree.
192 1 studying at the university of California.
1923―― 1927 studied at the university of Chicago and received his doctorate.
1923 transferred to the university of Chicago for further study. 1926 under the guidance of professor H. Carr, he completed the thesis entitled "the influence of context on learning and memory" and obtained his doctorate. 1927, Pan Yi returned to China. At that time, China's modern psychology was in the establishment stage, and some universities set up psychology departments one after another. He was hired as an associate professor of psychology by the Fourth Sun Yat-sen University (formerly Southeast University, later renamed Central University), and was promoted to professor and head of psychology department six months later. He worked in this university until the mid-1950s.
In 1930s, China experienced internal troubles and foreign invasion, but at that time he couldn't see clearly what kind of road psychology should take, so he hesitated, but he didn't waver in his ambition. At that time, some universities in China cancelled their psychology departments one after another, and some talented young psychologists were forced to change careers one after another. Facing the bad luck that psychology in China may die young, Pan Wei published an article on the topic of "Defending Psychology" in newspapers and periodicals, striving for the understanding, attention and support of the society for psychology, and encouraging his colleagues in psychology to know what they are doing. In the specific environment at that time, they still have to recognize the value of psychology, dare to advance despite difficulties and make a difference. * * * Together, they will explore this "semi-barren land" in China's scientific field.
During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, Pan Wei moved to Chongqing with Central University. During his 89 years in Chongqing, he devoted a lot of energy to the anti-Japanese democratic and patriotic struggle, while sticking to the scientific position of psychology. During this period, he organized more than a dozen progressive professors from Central University and Chongqing University to consciously study Marxism-Leninism and the works of Comrade Mao Zedong, and learned a lot. In particular, Lenin's incisive exposition of psychological activities in the criticism of materialism and empiricism made him refreshing. Based on his own study and research, he opened a new course-theoretical psychology for the students of psychology department, trying to explain the basic theoretical problems in psychology with the new philosophical ideas he just came into contact with, and exploring a new development path for psychology.
1927, Pan Yi returned to China and was employed as an associate professor in the earliest psychology department-Sun Yat-sen University (later renamed Central University). Half a year later, he was promoted to professor and concurrently served as the head of the psychology department. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the departments of universities in East China were adjusted, and the Central University was adjusted to Nanjing University. Pan Wei used to be the head of the psychology department, dean, chairman of the school committee and president of NTU, and was transferred to the Institute of Psychology of Chinese Academy of Sciences as the director on 1956, where he taught for more than 30 years.
1949, after the liberation of Nanjing, he was ordered to take over the Central University. After the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC), he took over as the chairman of the board of directors of Nanjing University (adjusted Central University) and was appointed as the first president at 195 1.
65438-0952, participated in the adjustment of colleges and departments in Nanjing and East China. When he presided over the adjustment of university departments, he did not leave Nantah, the original site of Sipailou, for the sake of equipment relocation. This was Pan Wei's first major mistake in his life.
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's psychology copied everything from the Soviet Union into textbooks, forming a dependence on the Soviet Union. To this end, Pan Wei is bent on understanding how Soviet psychology developed under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism.
1949 September, as one of the representatives of China scientists, he went to the Soviet Union to attend the birthday commemoration of Pavlov 100.
1957, he led a delegation of psychologists from China to visit GDR via Moscow. Pan Wei cherished these two opportunities. He hoped to learn from them by meeting and visiting Soviet psychologists, but his hope failed to come true. During this period, China's psychological professional institutions have also undergone great adjustments. Only Nanjing University has retained the Department of Psychology, and another psychology major is set up in the Philosophy Department of Peking University according to the Soviet model. From 65438 to 0956, the Department of Psychology of NTU was merged into the Institute of Psychology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, with Pan Wei as the director of the Institute. Prior to this, the Chinese Psychological Society was re-established in 1955, and he was elected as the chairman. He held these two positions until the mid-1980s.
1955, China Academy of Sciences was established. He was hired as a member of the department and was the only psychologist in the department.
1963, he suffered a sudden myocardial infarction and almost died. He was in the hospital for more than a year. The "Cultural Revolution" began in the recovery period after discharge. Psychology has been falsely labeled as "pseudoscience" and will be "completely smashed", and psychology majors in psychology research institutes and universities have also been cancelled. China is facing a psychological disaster. He was once known as a "living Lei Feng", but suddenly he became a "ghostly". Although he is old and seriously ill, he still suffers from all kinds of persecution. In this case, even if his life is in danger, what he wants is how to make China's psychology continue to exist and develop. After a critical meeting that destroyed the psychological institute, he said to his wife sadly and firmly: "Psychology, as a science, cannot be destroyed or cancelled, and its future is bright." It is this firm belief that made him constantly strive for self-improvement under extremely difficult circumstances, and under the cover of writing inspection, he secretly wrote the first draft of Psychological Letters with more than 500,000 words. Later, in his review, he wrote: "Through the work of writing psychological letters, I thought I had made clear many problems in psychology, more clearly recognized the past, present and future trends of psychology, and also clearly understood what should be done in the research and development of psychology in China. I firmly believe that China's psychology must be self-reliant and self-reliant, and never look at any country again. " .
1976, after the Cultural Revolution, in order to restore and develop psychology in China as soon as possible, 80-year-old Pan Wei, regardless of his weak health, once again shouldered the heavy responsibility of the director of the Institute of Psychology and the chairman of the Chinese Psychological Association. On the one hand, he took great pains to do a lot of organization and leadership work, and at the same time took the lead in researching and writing and spreading it vigorously. In the last 10 year of life, * * * published more than 20 papers and 5 books. Before his death, he presided over the psychological research of consciousness and served as the director of the editorial board of the psychological volume of the encyclopedia of China. During the period of 10, 3 master students and 4 doctoral students were trained.
198 1 year, the Chinese Psychological Society, the Institute of Psychology of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Central Committee of Jiu San Society jointly held activities to celebrate his 60th anniversary and 90th birthday in psychological research and teaching. At the meeting, he said excitedly that he would "live to be old, learn to be old, and work to be old". He is soberly aware that his time is running out and there are still many things to do. Therefore, I always work day and night and can't sleep at night. Once, his daughter wrote him a letter specially, trying to convince him with the love of father and daughter. He replied with a small note that said, "I am single-minded, and it is a fact that I don't have enough time." There's nothing I can do. It is impossible to go to bed early unless you give up your job. " In a few words, the selfless work spirit of the 90-year-old man was revealed. Pan Wei's highly enterprising spirit and selfless dedication are widely praised in China's psychology field, and he is known as "a saint" and "a banner" in China's psychology field. Just as his efforts continued to bear fruit, he died of cerebral hemorrhage, thus ending his arduous and tortuous course in psychology at the age of 9 1.