The Study Of Liu Shipei's Thought Of Popularization Of Education

After dedicating himself to the revolution, Liu Shipei realized that lacking of national character was the crucial issue of the poor and weak situation of China. He put forward the thought of popularization of education to enlighten nationals'intellect. General speaking, popularization of education was to eliminate people's ignorance, superstition, dependence and servility, to change the situation of no sense of responsibility and no sense of nationalism and unconcerned to war, to develop military spirit. Specifically speaking, it was to change the situation of"there is no complete education system in China", to carry out education reform, to popularize primary education. Moreover, he advocated writing local textbooks to enforce patriotism education. In order to popularize education, Liu Shipei published propaganda and newspaper on the one hand, and on the other hand, he advocated language reform, using oral language, financing from ordinary people to establish primary school, rewriting Chinese textbook, reforming teaching content to suit new education system of primary school, establishing short-term training program to educate old style teachers. The thought of popularization of education of Liu Shipei was full of characters: taking care of nationals'benefit and society benefit, paying attention to enlighten nationals'responsibility; having motivation to capitalist class revolution; having strong utility with more emphasis on society science and less emphasis on natural science.; having some extent of fantasy, since the popularization of education was difficult to realize in reality at that time. Researching on Liu Shipei's thought of popularization of education, we can make up the blank of this area and complete the research on the history of Chinese education thought. Moreover, we can furthermore understand the relationship between popularization of education and the improving of nationals'quality and social development, push forward the development of today's quality education.