Cai Yuanpei's Educational Ethics

Mr. Cai Yuanpei is a famous bourgeoisie educator in the Chinese modemhistory. He is knowledgeable and erudite, especially his educational thought hasinfluenced the education ethos of a period. Cai Yuanpei fused in the essence ofChinese and the Western culture and educational thought, mainly displays in histhought both has the mark of the traditional thought and deeply influenced by westbourgeoisie initiation thought. Cai Yuanpei's study experiences in Europe cause himto carry on reconsidering and criticizing to the Chinese traditional education underChinese and the Western cultural conflict, combining the west culture and educationwith his education practices, and then forming its systemic education moral thought.Cai Yuanpei's education moral thought is prominent in the Chinese education historywith its rich content, wide scope and profound influence. Especially the "healthypersonality "he proposed, which is harmonious development of moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetics and Weltanschauung includes the education guideline of the"engagement of five kinds of education" which takes the people's moral education asthe focus. What "the perfect personality" is most prominent in the educational thoughtis more systematic, its comprehensive aesthetics thought and its creativeWeltanschauung educational thought. Cai Yuanpei's thoughts "the educationindependence" and "the education equality" are also the essential constituent of hiseducation moral thought. Cai Yuanpei's education moral thought not only has had theprofound influence to the education transformation of Chinese modem times, moreover still made sense to the contemporary education. Therefore, the paperinduces and the summarizes Cai Yuanpei's education moral thought, analyzing itslimitation and validity, and then considering of current education conditions, thoroughly analyzes how the Cai Yuanpei's education moral thought affects thecontemporary national quality and the contemporary higher education. In brief, theessential contents of Cai Yuanpei's education moral thought, until now was still aprecious culture and education inheritance, is worth learning.The paper is divided into five parts:The first part, analyzes the origin of Cai Yuanpei's education moral thought, including its individual education experience, cultural origin and rationale.The second part, elaborates Cai Yuanpei's education independent thoughtThe third part, elaborates Cai Yuanpei's education equal thoughtThe fourth part, elaborates Cai Yuanpei's perfect personality theory.The fifth part, discusses the historical influence and the practical significance ofCai Yuanpei's education moral thought, carries on the elaboration from followingseveral aspects: (1) the function of Cai Yuanpei education moral thought in theChinese modern history;(2) A lesson from Cai Yuanpei's education moral thought tothe contemporary education.