| Hu Xiansu is the famous natural scientist, writer and educator in our country. He specializes in natural science, not only has higher creativeness in the literature, but also unique ideas in education. In the New Culture Movement at time of the May 4th ,when the cultural radicalism lashed against traditional culture , Hu Xiansu tried to correct culture activists' extreme inclination between traditional culture and modern culture by his unique cultural angle of view and the serious humanities mood, and explored rationally the road to make the state strong and powerful ,and the nation immensely rejuvenated.Hu Xiansu who is one of founders in the cultural conservatism organization, namely Critical Review School is the profound classical poet and the writer. When the New Culture School pounded against traditional culture thoroughly, like a raging fire, and carried on the literary revolution, Hu Xiansu and the initiators of literary revolutionary launched debates in the scientific theory .He supports the necessary reforms to Chinese writing, but opposes firmly to abolish the Chinese characters, and implements the alphabetization blindly. He does not oppose the starting and development of vernacular, but opposed the pure and no artistic valuable vernacular literature. Hu Xiansu advocates scrupulously the follows of literature creational standards to carry out their artistic value, and doesn′t agree culture popularization at the price of the reducing literary standards. He has profound study to classical poems, at the same time, also hopes the vernacular poetry can derive the essence from classical poems, and grow healthily. Hu Xiansu advocates the careful treatment to traditional culture, and criticizes the extreme treatment of the initiators of literary revolutionary to traditional culture. He insists we should receive good essence of culture and abandon its dregs, and fuse ancient and modern in China and abroad culture to construct new culture in China. Therefore, we can see clearly that his treatment to traditional culture and modern civilization, external culture and native culture displays the rationality and calm.The great half a lifetime of Hu Xiansu is engaged in the education, in the long-term educational practice, it causes him know many questions existing in Chinese education, and forms the original opinions. As a renowned educationalist, Hu Xiansu supports new humanism education and focuses on human's full development, especially , emphasizes human's moral education. He proposes the opinions on how to carry out human's full development . Hu Xiansu requests the higher education should be intensive, special and all–round,not be too special. At the same time, he proposes many precise and profound opinions on educational questions which exist in Chinese education . Hu Xiansu emphasizes teachers are very important roles in education , and advocates we should respect and take care of teachers, simultaneously ,also requests the teacher to be both ethics and intellect . He also pays great attention to citizen's ideological education, and raises citizen's modern ideology to pursue joyful life. From the educational ideas of Hu Xiansu, we can get many beneficial suggestions for the current educational reform. |
