Agent Ze Tao Xingzhi Education Values

Tao Xingzhi, the famous educator in the history of Modern education in our country with the strong country flavor and religious humanity spirit, was deeply edified by Eastern and Western Education Concept. He devoted all his life to the research about education practice and theory and successively put forward "rural education","civilian education","life education" and "create education" education proposal, which formed "unification of teaching, learning and practicing" teaching mode. His education thought and education practice has the obvious value direction and Times Characteristic, which provides an important reference value for the contemporary Chinese education reform and development. Researching his education values concept is the reality need for the contemporary Chinese education reform and development.Education value concept is the guide of educational practice. Tao Xingzhi’s educational value concept is formed during his study and education practices, which is a systematic understanding about education for the social needs, and human development functions, function, meaning and so on. The content of his education value concepts is deep and abundant. The basic concepts about education rejuvenating the country, education serving the public and education nurturing the human make true the organic unification of individual and social value in the education. He thought that life is the foundation and the source of education while education is the guide of life. Life and education is incorporated and society is the best school. The school should take the social life as the main teaching contents to develop people with modern national spirit. Especially, he emphasized creativity of education and suggested the creative educational thought, which respects the children’s creativity and liberate the brain and hands of Chinese people with science and experiment. Besides, he proposed the idea of "To do first","To combine Knowledge with practice" and discovering and solving problems in practice to promote the development of the theory.Tao Xingzhi’s education value concept has its unique feature with "novel","living" and "love" as the basic principles and aims to change the old, rigid and indifferent ways and customs of the traditional education. It takes "practice" as the core and pays more attention to practice than knowledge in consideration of the instable Chinese situation and the urgency of education reform, hoping serve the people sincerely but prattle-prattle and study mechanically. Tao Xingzhi’s education values concept takes "civilian education" and "country education" as the goal oriented, which expressed his deep sympathy on Chinese laboring people and poor students and also is the inner impetus for his equal education idea. Tao Xingzhi’s education value concept is "unification of teaching, learning and practicing" as practical theory, highlighted the unification of "teaching learning and practicing "and teachers、students、life, which expressed high expectations in the value of being、the social requirements and the combination of knowledge and practice in line with Tao Xingzhi positioning on the modern national spirit. It has the great inspiration to our education reform and modernization.