Study Of Cai Yanpei's Aesthetic Education Ideology And Its Modern Significance

Cai Yuanpei's aesthetic education ideology which inherited parts of Chinese traditional culture and absorbed famous west thinkers including Kant and Schiller advanced aesthetic ideas and improved them is an organic part of his educational thoughts. Under the principle of beauty-appreciation nature .Cai Yuanpei put his aesthetic education ideology in the practice of fostering perfect personal characters and social-developing, which produced an active influence on modem Chinese society. This paper inquires into the nature, the status, and art-education the function of Cai Yuanpei's aesthetic education ideology .interprets the concept of "substituting the Aesthetic Education for the Religion "raised by Cai Yuanpei ,and summarizes the characteristic and defect of his aesthetic education ideology.The histories cultural evaluation and modern significance of Cai Yuanpei's aesthetic education ideology relating to the contemporary times is also expounded in this paper.