Cai Yuanpei's Aesthetic Education Ideology And Its Practical Significance

On a great deal of foundation that investigated related history data, this textcarries out a thorough research on Aesthetics Education Thought of Cai Yuanpei. Thethought includes the following four aspects: the formation of Aesthetics EducationThought of Cai Yuanpei, the main content on the thought, the historical status of thethought, and the practical significance and enlightenment of the thought.Cai Yuanpei's aesthetic education ideology which inherited parts of Chinesetraditional culture and absorbed famous west thinkers including Kant and Schilleradvanced aesthetic ideas and improved them is an organic part of his educationalthoughts. In addition, for the then ages background and academic background, hethinks one of the roads of change China's present condition of beggarliness, fallingbehind and being humiliated is to initiate theories to save the country. Under theprinciple of beauty-appreciation nature.Cai Yuanpei put his aesthetic educationideology in the practice of fostering perfect personal characters andsocial-developing, which produced an active influence on modern Chinese society.The Cai Yuanpei aesthetic education thought mainly included the essence andthe characteristic of the aesthetic education, by an aesthetic education generation ofreligion,the cultural movement don't forget the aesthetic education as well as theaesthetic education implementation. When he was the Chief Minister of Educationof the Republic of China (1912-1949), the aesthetic education was written as anindependent item into the state's education policy, and was carried as a laweventually. Therefore, the aesthetic education was first established its legal status inthe history of the modern Chinese education. After that, he advocated aestheticeducation almost all his life, earnestly practiced it, and contributed significantly to it.He inherited the nourishments of Chinese traditional aesthetic education and westernaesthetic education, integrated as well as innovated through scientific ways. So hehas realized the traditional aesthetic education's modern transformation. Today theaesthetic education is emphasized again by the Party and our state, and was brought into the state's education policy for the second time. The building and developmentof theory and practice of the modern aesthetic education should draw nutrimentsboth from the traditional aesthetic education thoughts, and even from the modernaesthetic education thoughts. Cai Yuanpei's historical devotion to the modernChinese aesthetic education thoughts guides the development of our modernaesthetic education thoughts.