Tao Xingzhi’s famous sayings on education

2. The so-called sound personality must include: First, private morality is the foundation of one’s life, and public morality is the foundation of serving the society and the country. Two knowledge and skills necessary for life. 3. Strong and lively physique. Four beautiful and happy feelings.

3. If farmers do not value teachers, the farmers will go bankrupt; if workers do not value teachers, the work will be crude; if the people do not value teachers, the country will not be prosperous and strong; if humans do not value teachers, the world will not be peaceful.

4. If you want students to be eager to learn, you must be eager to learn. Only a teacher who never tires of learning can teach students who never tire of learning.

5. The teachers and staff will personally do what students are asked to do; the teachers and staff will personally and personally learn the knowledge that students are required to learn; the teachers and staff will personally and personally abide by the rules that students are expected to observe.

6. Teaching is one thing, not three things. We need to teach by doing and learn by doing. Without putting effort into doing, teaching will not become teaching, and learning will not become learning.

7. There is Watt under your pointer, Newton in your cold eyes, and Edison in your ridicule. Don't rush them away. You don’t have to wait until you sit on a steamer to light up an electric light and learn calculus before you recognize them as your primary school students.

8. True education is a heart-to-heart activity. Only when it comes from the heart can it touch the depths of the soul.

9. Instead of adding some piecemeal knowledge to students, it is better to give them a few keys so that they can take the initiative to develop the cultural treasury and the treasure of the universe.

10. If you want to be self-reliant and make progress, you must be bold and direct your spirit of experimentation toward new and uninvented principles; be not afraid of hard work, tiredness, obstacles, or failure, and be determined to succeed. The mysterious new principles of education were discovered one by one.

11. Education cannot create anything, but it can inspire children's creativity to engage in creative work.

12. The purpose of rural normal schools is to cultivate teachers with farmers’ skills, scientific minds and transforming social spirit.

13. Having both hands and brain is the purpose of creating education. The countermeasure for China’s educational revolution is to form an alliance between hands and brain.

14. Thousands of teachings teach people to seek truth; thousands of learnings lead to learning to be a real person.

15. Repair when broken. Wash away any dirt. Work means humility. Chaos is order. The debt is repaid immediately. The disease is the cure. Change it immediately. Goodness is joy. Action is thought. Rest when you are tired. The letter is answered. The account is recorded.

16. The so-called sound personality must include: private morality is the foundation of establishing oneself, public morality is the foundation of serving the society and the country; knowledge and skills necessary for life; strong and lively physique; graceful and happy emotions.

17. Education and knowledge should be turned into air, permeating the universe, washing the universe, and spreading to all living beings, so that everyone can breathe.

18. Cultivating and educating people is the same as planting flowers and trees. You must first understand the characteristics of flowers and trees, fertilize, water and cultivate and educate them according to different situations. This is called "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude."

19. Two different tendencies should be prevented in education: one is the erroneous tendency to completely erase the boundaries between teaching and learning, denying the teacher’s leading role; the other is to only discipline without asking questions. Students' interests and the erroneous tendency of not paying attention to the questions raised by students. The former tendency is bound to be unplanned and rolling along with life; the latter tendency is bound to indoctrinate students into rotten ducks.

20. Improve your personal ethics and build a "Great Wall of Personality". From the soundness of private morality, the effectiveness of public morality is expanded to seek collective benefits...

21. A good teacher does not teach or teach students, but teaches students to learn.

22. Working together with hands and brain is the beginning of creative education; having both hands and brain is the purpose of creative education.

23. It is necessary to liberate children’s minds, hands, feet, space and time, so that they can fully enjoy a free life and get real education from a free life.

24. People are like trees. To make them grow as high as possible, they cannot be forced to grow to the same height. They should seek equality at the footing and freedom at the beginning.

25. A common problem in Chinese education is that people who use their brains are taught not to use their hands, and people who use their hands are not taught to use their brains, so they can do nothing.

The countermeasure of China’s education revolution is the hand-brain alliance. The result is that the power of both hands and brain can be incredible.