Compared With Mao Tse-tung And Deng Xiaoping's Education Theories

The ideology of Mao Tse-tung and Deng Xiaoping absorbed the essence of Marx and integrated it with the reality of China.Deng Xiaoping's educational thought succeeded that of Mao Tse-tung and also developed and innovated it. Both of them are very important to the contemporary education with Chinese characteristic.This article discusses the following aspects.The first part sets out the main elements of Mao Tse-tung's educational thoughts and characteristic. It mainly summarizes the main content of Mao Tse-tung's educational thoughts and states the political, practical, national character of the thoughts.The second part sets out the main elements of Deng Xiaoping's educational thoughts and characteristic. It mainly summarizes the main content of Deng Xiaoping's educational thoughts and states the political, times, overall, practical and innovative character of the thoughts.The third part compares the similarities and dissimilarities of Mao Tse-tung's and Deng Xiaoping's educational thoughts. First, about the similarities, it mainly analyzes from the aspect of theoretical origin, emphasis on practice, direction, and the service for the people. Then, about the dissimilarities, it mainly studies from the aspect of education's status, function, goal, principle, mode of educational development, and reformation of educational system.The fourth part discusses the inspiration of Mao Tse-tung's and Deng Xiaoping's educational thoughts to the contemporary education. Firstly, the key principle of educational development is to serve politics and economy; Secondly, education being the foundation is the strategy of the modern construction ; Thirdly, the key goal of education is to transform the ideas and improve the quality; Fourthly, strong regulations is education's necessary protection; Fifthly, people-oriented and coordinated development is the key way of educational development.