Zhang Boling’s Gongneng Education Thought And Its Insights Into The Ideological And Political Education Of College Students

Zhang Boling, a famous patriotic educator in China and the founder ofNankai series of private schools, plays a crucial role in Chinese modern historyof education. His education thought has the practical instructing value and theGongNeng education thought is the core of his educational ideological system.Making a detailed description of the main content of the GongNeng educationthought according to the collected data and literature concentrating on moraleducation, physical education, modern ability education, aesthetic education,democracy and science education, and the education thought for cultivatingstudents’ team spirit and combining current situation of the ideological andpolitical education in colleges, the thesis puts forward to have the highlytargeted analysis and research about existing issues in the ideological andpolitical education in colleges on the theory of GongNeng education thought,then explores new ideas and offers some favorable enlightenment for ideologicaland political education reform in colleges. Nowadays, there has been much research in academia on Zhang Bolingeducation thought especially his higher-education management thought frommany aspects such as his teaching philosophy of “dedication to public interests,acquisition of all-round capability, and aspiration for progress with each day”,education development view of “knowing China and serving China”,educational power facilitating China’s modernization, supporting private-runinstead of private-owned, but the research outcome combining his GongNengeducation thought and present ideological and political education among collegestudents stays in the weak link. Therefore, through this thesis, the author expectsthat people can have a more comprehensive and clear understanding of ZhangBoling`s GongNeng thought and provides a valuable reference for the smoothdevelopment of the ideological and political education work among collegestudents in China, which also reflects this famous celebrity’s important status inthe modern ideological and political education in China, and shows descendants’reverence for him.College students are not only the hope of our country and nation, but alsopillars building socialism with Chinese characteristics. The key to realize theambitious goal of a comprehensively well-off society and socialismmodernization construction lies in their quality. Therefore, the basic approachand effective guarantee to train college students to become qualified buildersand successors is to strengthen the ideological and political education of collegestudents.