A Study On Hu Shi's Higher Education Thoughts

Hushi is a well-known scholar of modern China, a pioneer in the New Culture Movement, and an excellent educator. He has taught at the university, and has been the university president. He personally participated in a number of educational activities and had many educational writings. Especially in higher education, he has accumulated a wealth of educational experience, forming insightful ideas of higher education.Hushi advocated the idea that higher education could save the country and the purpose of higher education saving the nation was to cultivate a variety of high-quality expertise. Hushi encouraged students to read books. He paid attention to scholarly research methods of teaching, emphasized on overall development of students and advocated inter-penetration of teaching and research. Because of his growing experience, Hushi criticized authoritarian education, encouraged women to be self-reliant, he established a university system of male and female students. After Hushi returned from overseas, he seriously criticized the problems in the overseas study system, pointed out that overseas study should have a purpose of not going overseas and the studying methods should be changed.At the same time, Hushi was a mature education manager. He participated in academic development, developed management system of teaching and examination. He advocated independent education and to improve the treatment of teachers. These measures guided China's higher education to line with the world advanced countries'and trained a large number of Chinese people.In the New Culture Movement and higher education development, Hushi has merit, but his ideas of higher education were based on Dewey's pragmatism philosophy of education. Universal education and the theory of saving the nation by education had a serious bourgeois idealism thinking of color, and these should be criticized.