| Cai Yuanpei,the celebrated democratic revolutionary,educator and thoughtful thinker ,played an important role in modern times and had a great influence on especially ,the development of modern education and science in China .His contribution,as well as his creativity and his moral integrity ,is unforgettable and adirable.Cai's educational theory and thought have long been put great value on in the related field .Even now,his theory and thoughts are still worth making an inquiry into to find out its sources .We are sure to learn much from his positive ideas .Here are the major aspects of the research on Cai's educational theory and thoughts :the equality of the importance of five ways of education ;the theory of university education; the theory of education for women ;the theory of social education ;the theory of professional education; the independence of education ;the combination of western and Chinese traditional education .Research shows Cai Yuanpei's educational theory and thoughts is not only the product of the current time ,but also greatly infouenced by traditional Chinese culture and westen cultures , as well as his collegnes educational thoughts. Due to series of defented battles during the modern time, people had to take pairs to review traditional Chinese education, with the hope of catching up with the modern edcational thoughts in the west .The period of several decades, Cai's theory and thoughts was gradually formed, developed, made perfect and put into practice during the several decades from the end of Qing Dyrasty to the mid-term of the old China. When traditional Chinese culture was fiercely attacked by the westernnculture,Cai Yuanpei, through his studying and leraraing from the west ,realized the 20th century was an age to strengthen our country with the development of education and science ,and to compete on the people's qualities.He sensitively realized the reason, why the modern China fell behind the west, lay in education and science. In his opinion, the olw level lay of science and technology was not just the result of people's poorer intellegience; it was only promoting the development of science that could rebuild a stronger China. He thought it a good way to develop students unique quality to show respect to their "nature". Meanwhile, he inherited the idea of incorporation and aesthetics in tradition, which are also advocated in the western education.Cai Yuanpei's greatest contribution to modern education is Beijing University, where he directed and performed gloriously in the education evloution. He rebuilt and renewes Beijing University and made it the born-place and centre of the New Culture Movement. As well ,he had effects on the entire country in fields of politics, thoughts ,and culture. His idea about university education on incorporation freedom of thoughts; education independence;selection system, etc, is the product of both the Golden mean of the Confucian school and modern cultural education in the west.Through the research on the beginning and sources of Cai Yuanpei's idea .We learn more about his theory and thoughts, understand its greatness and its significance in reality. |
