The Research On Aesthetics Education Thought Of Cai Yuanpei

On a great deal of foundation that investigated related history data, this text carries out a thorough research on Aesthetics Education Thought of Cai Yuanpei. The thought includes the following four aspects: embryo, the creation and establishment of Aesthetics Education Thought of Cai Yuanpei, the theories on the thought, the characteristic of the thought, and the apocalypse of the thought.The thought sprouts from what he learnt in the Leipzig University :" In the classroom I often learn esthetics, the history of art and literary;in the environment , I was often edified by music and art;and gradually I began to concentrate on the esthetics. When Ewing talks about the philosophy history, he puts forward that the Comte views concerning esthetics focusing most on transcendence and catholicity. Reading Comte's books in detail, I understand more and more about the importance of esthetics. "It is thus clear that the esthetics thought of the west and the philosophy theories of the Comte has a very and important effect on the embryo and the formation of Aesthetics Education Thought of Cai Yuanpei. In the meantime, Mr. Cai drew lessons from Chinese traditional culture in the aesthetics education he promotes. Cai Yuanpei has very deep scholastic attainment to the western theory, and he is academic to have deep comprehension to the Chinese traditional culture, his Aesthetics Education Thought is "select the essence of the east and west ". In addition, for the then ages background and academic background, he thinks one of the roads of change China's present condition of beggarliness, falling behind and being humiliated is to initiate theories to save the country.Cai's thought includes a sound personality education, aesthetics education taking the place of religion, and laying equal stress on science and. The contents of it is abundant and colorful, including many ways, not only the music, art, handicraft, literature and calligraphy in the primary school and high school, and also including the pleasant impression permeate penetrated in mathematics, geometry, sciences, physics, and chemistry etc.;the things arousing pleasant impression in the famous scenery spot, the cultural relics and daily life. The paths of the implementing are home education, t school education, and the social education. We review Cai's thought by understanding andresearch theories of the thought. Considering contemporary aesthetics education is not only advantageous to inheriting Mr. Cai's aesthetics education thought, and also acquire apocalypse to the family school and society from it. It is also advantageous to introspecting current aesthetics education, and avoid aesthetics education developing toward "utilitarianism", "the technical ability doctrine" and "formalism" as possible.