A Study Of Mr. Tao Xingzhi's Health Education Thinking

The paper has made a thorough study of Mr. Tao Xingzhi's health education thinking by using literature data and in the background of quality education and health education. Tao Xingzhi(1891~1946), one of the greatest educators of Chinese people, devoted all his life to the people's education. He was loaded with utter zeal of coming with a soul and going without half grass, with the mutual encouragement of asking people to seek the truth. Learning to be a true man, with the sentiment of love for all and education for all. Being willing to be a camel in China. During his life-long educational and teaching experience, he fully believed that education is of importance to a country. He considered education be essential and in dispersible to everyone like air. Therefore, he established an integrated system of the theory of life for education, life as education, society as school, the unity of teaching, studying and doing. The main objectives of his talent cultivation are a sound body, a farmer's physique, a scientific brain, artistic interest and spirit for society reform. The voluminous works and appropriate exposition of Tao Xingzhi are closely-linked with the quality education of the socialism in current China. He might be rated as a giant in modern education history of China. The educational thinking of physical fitness is an organic part of his life-theory. He paid much attention to health education. He stood for harmonious development of virtue, knowledge and sports. He pursued the principle of health first. He definitely pointed out. We are deeply convinced that health is a starting-point for life, and also for education. Virtue and knowledge are supposed to have a lively and steady foundation-fitness. A sound body is of uttermost importance in his five objectives of life-education. The purpose of his fitness education is to train wholesome citizens, to build a healthy nation. In order to obtain fitness, he offered some methods and measures both scientific and practicable, such as exercise,hygiene and nutrition,prevention,diagnosis,alternation of work with rest and recreation. A general survey may reveal his thinking on fitness features: the fundamentality of function, the universality of the objectives, the feasibility of operation and the liberality of thinking. Study and research are of the biggest importance. Practice and development are of the greatest value. The theory of Mr.Tao Xingzhi's health education embraces rich practical value and realistic meanings. It will not only guide modern Chinese PE reform, but also promote modern Chinese education.