Tao Xingzhi’s famous sayings on education:

1. Failure is the mother of success, and struggle is the father of success.

2. 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.

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

4. Those who teach others teach themselves, and work hard.

5. Instead of adding some piecemeal knowledge to the 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.

6. Action is the beginning of knowledge, and knowledge is the completion of action.

7. Come with a heart in your hand and leave without any grass.

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

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

11. Education is social transformation, and teachers are the leaders of social transformation. The fate of young people in the hands of teachers controls the fate of the nation and mankind.

12. A good education should give students a skill so that they can contribute to society. In other words, a good education is one that develops students’ skills so that they can live independently.

13. 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.

14. Those who teach others teach themselves, and work hard.

15. In life, one big thing comes and one big thing goes.