“Aesthetic educators complement intellectual education in order to complete moral education.” This means that education in aesthetic cultivation needs to complement intellectual cultivation in order to achieve the cultivation of moral character.

Aesthetic educators complement intellectual education in order to complete moral education.

——Cai Yuanpei

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Cai Yuanpei To have a good society, there must first be good individuals. To have a good individual, you must first have a good education.

Cai Yuanpei The so-called sound personality is divided into four types of education, namely: (1) physical education, (2) intellectual education, (3) moral education, and (4) aesthetic education. …School education pays attention to students’ sound personality, so students should be proactive in every aspect.

Cai Yuanpei Education is to help the educated people, so that they can develop their own abilities, complete their personality, and play their part in human culture; it is not to turn the educated people into a special kind of person. Tools are for people with other purposes to use...Education requires the balanced development of individuality and group character.

Cai Yuanpei knows that as an educator, rather than abiding by the rules, it is better to be natural; rather than seeking uniformity, it is better to express individuality.

Cai Yuanpei The duties of teachers and staff are all to facilitate your study. Can you remain indifferent? You should treat each other with sincerity and respect. As for classmates who are in the same room, they should especially love each other so that they can learn from each other. Not only should we be open and honest, but we should also help each other in accordance with justice, build the same school, and destroy others. Among the classmates, those who have moral deficiencies and wrong conduct are scorned by the society. Even though they are doing the right thing, they cannot defend themselves. Therefore, they must encourage each other.

Cai Yuanpei’s hopes for students: 1. Respect themselves. 2. Turn loneliness into unity. 3. A true understanding of one’s own academic abilities. 4. Planned exercise.

Cai Yuanpei Moral education is actually the foundation of a complete personality. If there is no virtue, although the body and intelligence are developed, it will only help the person to do evil, and it will be useless.

Cai Yuanpei An aesthetic educator is one who applies the theory of aesthetics to education with the purpose of cultivating emotions. ...Aesthetic educators complement intellectual education and aim to complete moral education.

Cai Yuanpei Pure aesthetic education cultivates people's emotions, makes them have noble and pure habits, and makes people's views of others and thoughts of self-interest and harm to others gradually disappear. Because beauty is universal, no one can participate in it with the difference between me and myself. ... Because of its ordinary nature, beauty no longer has the relationship between human beings and me, so it cannot have any relationship of interest.

Cai Yuanpei Beauty follows the pleasure of transcendence, is a universal judgment, has no rules but has principles, has no concepts but is inevitable.

Cai Yuanpei As everyone knows, only with a sound body can one have a sound spirit; if the body is weak, how can the mind and spirit be developed? In other words, the spirit cannot be free unless the body is tortured. However, the so-called hardship is meant to train people, not to make them weak to suffer themselves.

Cai Yuanpei, Huang Yanpei Education at all levels should strive to implement labor-based training in training, so that young people can establish a psychological basis for respecting their profession and gain a more correct outlook on life.