Excerpts from Tao Xing's famous sayings:

1. Instead of adding some piecemeal knowledge to students, it is better to give them a few keys so that they can automatically develop culture treasury and cosmic treasure.

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

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. As a teacher, you should teach and learn at the same time. It is not that you can buy some knowledge and sell it all your life.

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

6. The main purpose of rural normal schools is to cultivate teachers with farmer skills, scientific minds and transforming social spirit.

7. Living rural education should teach people to be profitable. He should turn barren mountains into forests and barren land to grow grains. He taught everyone to be self-reliant, self-governing, and self-defending. He wants to turn the village into a paradise in the West, and all the villagers to become happy living gods.

8. 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, fatigue, obstacles, or failure, and be determined to achieve success. The mysterious new principles of education were discovered one by one.

9. 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.

10. 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 educate them according to different situations. This is called "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude." ——Tao Xingzhi

11. People are like trees. To make them grow as tall as possible, they cannot be forced to grow to the same height. It should be: seek equality at the footing and seek freedom at the beginning. ——Tao Xingzhi

12. Living talent education is not about instilling knowledge, but about giving students the key to developing a cultural treasure house as much as we know. ——Tao Xingzhi

13. A teacher should not specialize in teaching, his responsibility is to teach people how to behave; students should not specialize in studying, his responsibility is to learn the way of life. ——Tao Xingzhi