Research On Wu Yuzhang' Higher Education Thoughts

Wu Yuzhang(1878-1966) was a proletarian revolutional educator of modern times, a pioneer of higher education in new China. He was engaged both in revolution and education all his life. Once he successively took charge of Chengdu Normal University, Academy of Fine Arts, Yanan University and Huabei University as president. After new China was established, he became Renmin University of China's first president. During his long higher education practice, he established his profound and original view on higher education, including his school—running thoughts that run schools for politics and economy, viewpoints on teachers that teachers are basis of a school, training—students thoughts that cultivate students with high plitical thoughts and good speciality and the thoughts of school management that manage school loosely and strictly properly by constantly summarizing experence and researching proletarian education theory. Studying Wu Yuzhang'higher education thoughts, not only can be beneficial to deepen our research of the history of our country's higher education, but also can provide some valuable references for the development of the modern higher education in our country,This dissertation consists four parts:The first part is preface that gives an introduction of the reason in selecting topic of this dissertation, sums up the ancient study and introduces the thinking and methods of this study summarily.The second part mainly analyzes the background of Wu Yuzhang'higher education ideas and three different developing phases from social background, personal life experences and educational practices, which makes a foundation for researching Wu Yuzhang's higher education thoughts comprehensively.In the third part, Wu Yuzhang's higher education thoughts is introduced, including the relationship between higher education, teachers, the content and methods of higher education and management of universities, ect. In the fourth part, this thesis gives his thoughts an objective appraise based on the facts, then on the base of it, the thesis proposes some useful and valuable references for the development and revolution of our country's higher education. The last part makes a general conclusion of the whole thesis.