Qian Mu University Of Educational Thought

Mr. Qian Mu, who was a famous historian, sinologist and educator in modern China, had practiced college education for more than fifty years. He is experienced in college education and had a number of unique thoughts in this field.Qian's ideology of college education had a very close relationship with his background, family environment, educational experience and a wealth of teaching experience. His ideology of college education is different from that of the quintessence group, but also quite different from the westernized group. He believed that of the idea of university education is to deliver our traditional culture and revitalize our nation. Then learn from the west to absorb its advantages s and avoid weakness. The aim of university education is not only to teach the students how to do scholarship, but more importantly, to teach them how to be a man. Only being a qualified man first, the students can then do good scholarship. The students should also integrate leaning and life, this is to learn how to be a man during their academic practice and to achieve idealized personality. For the arrangement of curriculums, attention should be paid first to the broadness of the student's knowledge. The basic curriculums should be set first and then the professional curriculums. The university students should be trained to study the basic knowledge first rather than the professional skills.Qian applied his thoughts to the practice of college education. He pursued his concept of college education when he taught in college through various ways. He founded the Nes Asia college to fully practice his ideology and gained great success.Qian put forward an idea to run the university for Chinese people based on centering with traditional culture and absorbing the essence of western education. The university education should be people-oriented and focus on cultivating the idealized personality. The person with professional ability should be trained first for the basic course to broaden his knowledge. These ideologies of education are valuable wealthy for our university education with significant reference.