Back Local: Cool Autumn 's Thoughts And Practice Of Education

Education thought is the soul of educational developing history. Therefore, the study of education thought is very important for the studying of the entire educational history. Similarly, it is a concentrated reflection of one person’s educational idea, educational emotion and educational care. Tai Shuangqiu (邰爽秋), as the representative educationist of modern china, his education thoughts deserve our attention. His education thoughts on the education funds, education administrative management, rural education still have the instructive meaning and reference value to the development of our education today.This paper takes the time development as the basic sequence, since the revolution of1911, modern China social change, Chinese big adjustment as the background, profoundly reveals Tai Shuangqiu’s theoretical core of Minsheng Education (民生教育), social practice, role and influence by analyzing a series of major events of modern China education development, and focusing on Tai Shuangqiu’s educational activities.This paper uses some view of statistics and sociology, takes literature method, case studying and comparative method. It bases on mining and integrating the first-hand materials to find problems, rules, extract the valuable things, and enrich the further research of Tai Shuangqiu’s Minsheng Education thoughts.This paper consists five parts. The content of the first part is following. The paper starts from Tai Shuangqiu’s educational life, career experience, emergence and formation of Minsheng Education, it introduces the background and reasons for the formation of Minsheng Education thoughts. Then it focus on Tai Shuangqiu’s dominant ideology of Minsheng Education, objectives and tasks, main content, and teachers in order to get a more complete understanding of Minsheng Education. Meanwhile, the paper will also make comparison with other education thoughts in order to point out the differences and diversities of them.The second part elaborates Tai Shuangqiu’s view including the relevant administration, sources and use of funds on implementing Minsheng Education. Educators’ practice, the support of administrative department, sufficient education funds, brilliant education facilities, complete education rules and regulations are directly related to the realization of Minsheng Education. Tai Shuangqiu travelling around the country, he did not ignore these basic elements on realizing the Minsheng Education, but paid attention to it as a special study field. He formed his own, insightful theory of educational administration theme of Minsheng. These theories enrich the content and connotation of theory of educational administration in China. The third part talks about Tai’s design of school system, in his theory, preschool and special education are the highlights of his school system. And this part talks about Tai’s opinion of teachers’development. Tai thinks highly of the role of teacher in Minsheng Education, in his opinion, teacher is the actual executor of Minsheng Education. For the popularization of education, there must be sufficient staff, and for excellently implementing universal education, there must be excellent teachers. So, this forms another important part of his educational thoughts of Minsheng Education.The fourth part focuses on the situation of performing Minsheng Education in rural areas. By presenting introduction of the rise and development of rural education, Tai Shuangqiu’s critique and rethink of rural education activities, the fourth part shows Tai Shuangqiu’s unusual opinion of education. Especially because he practiced the Nianer Movement(念二运动), and the resulting Nianer organization, universal education cart, these matter even bring crisis to his life and family. So, Tai Shuangqiu’s theory about rural education has the most rustic flavor in his theory of Minsheng Education, and it closely combines with China social reality.The final part summarizes main characteristics of Tai Shuangqiu’s Minsheng Education ideas, achievements and shortcomings, then extracts the inspiration for today’s educational development. Tai Shuangqiu’s Minsheng Education thought is comprehensive, realistic and should be ceaseless practiced. The school system, local product movement, education funds, educational guidance, teachers are all the important components of its connotation, and Nianer Movement is the lively practice for his Minsheng Education thoughts, and these thoughts run through his various educational activities. His practices are in line with the actual state of economics, society, culture, education at that time, these activities adapt to the development of rural society and needs of general public, and attempts to reform traditional education which removes from reality. He tries to reconstruct new system which accord with actual situation of China and development trend of modern education. At the same time, he shows elementary proposition of education, such as relationship between education and economic development, the combination of education and the productive labor, popularization of education. So far, these matters remain the major tasks of education theory and goal of education reform, they are still very useful to reform and develop education today.However, due to historical reasons, Tai Shuangqiu’s Minsheng Education thoughts and activities have historical limitations. Some of Tai Shuangqiu’s education thoughts are too simple, too perfect and idealism, some thoughts are divorced from the social reality.