A Study Of The School Education Thought Of Mao Zedong And Its Enlightenment To The Contemporary Quality-oriented Education

The school education thought of Mao Zedong is the major content of his educational thought. It is his regularity cognition towards school education which combines the education theories of such classic writers as Marx, Engels and Lenin that Mao Zedong inherits and the concrete reality of our country after he realizes the purpose and nature of education gradually formed through educational practical activities. The school education thought of Mao Zedong is initially formed since the publishing of "A Study of Physical Culture" in 1917 and got its complement and improvement in subsequent periods. The in-depth studies and penetrating statements within have guided the school education in our country for a long time. Now they still have great guiding and practical significance for the construction and development of the school education in our country. Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and the new generation of collective leaders also inherit and develop the essence of the school education thought of Mao Zedong in theoretical constructions and practice.The reform and development of school education is directly related to promoting quality-oriented education comprehensively and thus in relation to cultivating and improving the thought morality, which will be finally associated with realizing the goals of pushing forward the scientific development, promoting social harmony and the China Dream. As the main method of education, school education plays an important role for the overall development of people and quality-oriented education is the major approach to realizing comprehensive development. While quality-oriented education is pursued by schools in our country, it is just a slogan in most of the schools which still execute "exam-oriented education". The passive learning mode, the impractical learning content and the fixed ways of teaching evaluation in our schools deviate from the fundamental aims of school education seriously. Therefore, it is of great positive significance for us to further reform the present education and teaching and promote quality-oriented education comprehensively through the study, research and innovation of the school education thought of Mao Zedong that also plays an important practical role in solving the new problems of Chinese education modernization so as to push ahead the whole process of Chinese modernization.