Tao Xingzhi, born on October 18, 1891, died on July 25, 1946, Han nationality, native of She County, Huizhou, formerly known as Wen Jun. During his college years, he admired the Ming Dynasty philosopher Wang Yangming's "Zhixing" The theory of unity is named Zhi Xing. Graduated from the Literature Department of Jinling University (merged into Nanjing University in 1952), he is an educator and thinker of the Chinese people, a great democratic fighter, a patriot, and one of the main leaders of the Chinese People's Salvation Association and the China Democratic League. He once served as the Academic Director of Nanjing Normal University and the Director-General of the China Education Improvement Society. He successively founded Xiaozhuang School, Life Education Club, Shanhai Engineering Group, Yucai School and Social University. He put forward three major propositions: "Life is education", "Society is school", and "Teaching and doing are integrated". The theory of life education is the theoretical core of Tao Xingzhi's educational thoughts. Guo Moruo once praised: "Two thousand years ago Kong Zhongni, two thousand years later Tao Xingzhi". In order to commemorate Tao Xingzhi, the people's educator, Anhui, Nanjing, and Shanghai built Tao Xingzhi Memorial Halls in the 1980s with the approval of the provincial (municipal) committees and provincial (municipal) governments

Tao Xingzhi Classics Quotes:

1. 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.

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. Improve your personal ethics and build a "Great Wall of Personality". How to expand the effectiveness of public morality to seek collective benefits by improving private morality?

4. If farmers do not value teachers, farmers will go bankrupt; if workers do not value teachers, then work will be crude; if the people do not value teachers, the work will be crude; If we respect our teachers, the country will not be strong; if humans do not value their teachers, the world will not be peaceful.

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

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

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

8. Education is the foundation of a country.

9. 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.

10. 1. Be honest and non-deceptive; 2. Be modest and courteous; 3. Be self-disciplined; 4. Use both hands and brain; 5. Be clean and hygienic; 6. Be correct and agile; 7. Be disciplined Strive for progress; 8. Be responsible for doing things; 9. Help yourself and help others; 10. Have the courage to serve the public; 11. Be tenacious and calm; 12. Be consistent with beginning and end.

11. A first-class professor has two elements: first, having true knowledge and insight; second, being willing to tell the truth, refuting lies most, and not telling lies. We must use these two standards to measure our husband. The person who fits this is my teacher, I am determined to pursue him, and I will respect him throughout my life.

12. The public is growing very fast, and teachers must continue to improve in order to teach the public. A person who does not make progress is not qualified to teach, cannot teach, and is not happy to teach. Is the younger generation to be feared? This is not a polite word, but a warning given by a teacher to himself and all teachers after being oppressed by the vigorous growth of Lotus Lotus. Only the constant pursuit of truth can avoid such horrors.

13. Improve your personal ethics and build a "Great Wall of Personality". From the improvement of private morality to expanding the effectiveness of public morality to seek collective benefits?

14. Tao Xingzhi: Can each of us focus on one thing (referring to single-mindedness)? (refers to "collect") "drill" (refers to "drill in") "anatomy" (refers to "anatomy", "analysis") "toughness" (refers to "tenacity"). If you can do these five words, you must be knowledgeable. The day you suddenly understand it, you will make contributions to yourself, others, and society.

15. Collective life is an important driving force for children's self-development towards socialization; it is necessary for children's normal psychological development. A child who cannot obtain this normal development may be a tragedy throughout his life.

16. Confucius said: “Be tireless in learning and tireless in teaching.” I think there is a causal relationship between these two sentences. Only by being tireless in learning can one be tireless in teaching. If selling used goods every day is boring, it will be very difficult not to feel tired in the life of a teacher.

Therefore, as teachers, we must study and re-educate every day, so that we can have the joy of teaching without the pain of teaching.

17. Education must be scientific. This kind of education cannot be copied anywhere. We must use scientific methods and continue to study it based on objective circumstances. Moreover, the content of this education must also include and focus on natural sciences and social sciences, otherwise we will not be able to move forward.

18. 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.

19. Wisdom, benevolence and courage are important spiritual heritage of China. In the past, they were regarded as the "greatest virtues in the world", but today they are still important indicators of perfect personal development.

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

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

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

23. 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.

24. 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

25. Two different tendencies should be prevented in education: one is the erroneous tendency to completely erase the boundaries between teaching and learning and deny the leading role of teachers; the other is to only Discipline does not ask students’ interests and does not pay attention to the wrong tendencies of students’ questions. The former tendency is bound to be unplanned and rolling along with life; the latter tendency is bound to indoctrinate students into rotten ducks. ?Tao Xingzhi

26. The Chinese people’s concept passed down through thousands of years of history is that they value reading and scholars the most, but they are not yet ashamed of people who do not read or do not read. It should be noted that valuing reading and feeling shameful about not reading are two different things. It is urgent to create a public opinion that it is shameful not to read. ?Tao Xingzhi

27. Education cannot create anything, but it can inspire children's creativity to engage in creative work. ?Tao Xingzhi

28. Living rural education should teach people to benefit. 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.

29. 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.

30. 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.

31. Education and knowledge should be turned into air, permeating the universe, washing the universe, spreading to all living beings, and allowing everyone to breathe.

32. If life, work, and study can be automated, the results of education will be twice the result with half the effort. Therefore, we pay special attention to the cultivation of motivation and focus it on all life, work and study. Automaticity is conscious action, not spontaneous action. Conscious action requires proper cultivation and then can be achieved. ?Tao Xingzhi

33. I hope everyone will regard children’s health as the most important thing in kindergarten, and kindergarten teachers should be the gods of health.

34. If you want students to be eager to learn, your husband must be eager to learn. Only a teacher who never tires of learning can teach students who never tire of learning. ?Tao Xingzhi

35. If students are asked to do things, teachers and staff will do it with their own hands; if students are required to learn knowledge, teachers and staff will personally learn it; if students are required to follow the rules, teachers and staff will be responsible for it. Keep. ?Tao Xingzhi

36. 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

37. People are like trees. To make them grow as high 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

38. 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

39. We want living books, not dead books; we want real books, not fake books; we want moving books, not static books; we want useful books, not Books to read.

To sum up, we should use life-centered teaching as guidance instead of text-centered textbooks. ?Tao Xingzhi

40. We firmly believe that health is the starting point of life, which is also the starting point of education.

41. A good teacher does not teach or teach students, but teaches students to learn. ?Tao Xingzhi

42. We have discovered that children are creative. Once we understand that children are creative, we must further liberate children's creativity. ?Tao Xingzhi

43. 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. ?Tao Xingzhi

44. 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. ?Tao Xingzhi

45. 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. ?Tao Xingzhi

46. If life, work, and study can be automated, the results of education will be twice the result with half the effort. Therefore, we pay special attention to the cultivation of motivation and focus it on all life, work and study. Automaticity is conscious action, not spontaneous action. Conscious action requires proper cultivation and then can be achieved. ?Tao Xingzhi

47. We have discovered that children are creative. Once we understand that children are creative, we must further liberate children's creativity.

48. Collective life is an important driving force for children’s self-development towards socialization; it is necessary for children’s normal psychological development. A child who cannot obtain this normal development may be a tragedy throughout his life. ?Tao Xingzhi

49. The fate of young people is in the hands of teachers, and the fate of the nation and mankind is in the hands of teachers. Tao Xingzhi 3. Because morality is the foundation of being a human being. Once the foundation is bad, even if you have some knowledge and skills, it will be of little use. ?Tao Xingzhi

50. The duty of a teacher is to teach people through thousands of teachings and to teach people to seek truth; the duty of a student is to learn from thousands of things and learn to be a real person. ?Tao Xingzhi

51, wisdom, benevolence and courage are important spiritual heritages of China. In the past, they were regarded as the "greatest virtue in the world", but today they are still important indicators of perfect personal development.

52. One percent of waste products in educational work will cause serious losses to the country. ?Tao Xingzhi

53. 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 ride a steamer, light up an electric light, or learn calculus to recognize them as your primary school students. ?Tao Xingzhi

54. The most important thing in education is to give students the ability to transform the environment. Civilian education is an important method to transform the social environment.

55. Combine the spirit of citizenship and reading in one place to cultivate their ability to be a citizen.

56. Educators do not create gods, stones, or lovers. What they want to create is living people who are true, kind and beautiful. The living person who is true, kind and beautiful is our god, our stone statue, and our lover. The success of a teacher is to create a person worthy of his worship. The greatest joy of a teacher is to create students worthy of his admiration. To be more correct, teachers create students, students also create teachers, and students and teachers cooperate to create living people worthy of mutual worship.

57. Ignoring healthy people is tantamount to joking with your own life.

58. We must run a school seriously in order to be worthy of the children and the country and the nation. There is no need to care about the reputation or reputation.

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

60. The duty of a teacher is to teach thousands of people and teach people to seek truth. The student's duty is to "learn a lot and learn to be a real person".

61. As teachers, we must study and re-educate every day, so that we can have the joy of teaching without the pain of teaching. Only by constantly improving your democratic style can you lead by example and achieve the effect of enlightenment and popularization.

62. Love everywhere.

63. He who teaches others teaches himself. Learn for the sake of teaching.

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

65. Teachers will personally do what students are asked to do; teachers will personally learn the knowledge students are asked to learn; teachers will personally abide by the rules students are asked to observe.

66. 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.

67. 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.

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

69. There is Watt under your pointer, Newton in your cold eyes, and Edison in your hungry smile. Don't rush them away. Do you have to wait until they ride on a steamer, light an electric lamp, and learn calculus before you recognize them as your primary school students?

70. You have to teach your students how to teach them. If you are unwilling to humbly ask your students for advice, then you do not know his environment, his abilities, and his needs. Then, you will not be able to teach him even though you are extremely capable.

71. Democratic teachers must have: (?) modesty; (2) tolerance; (3) sharing joys and sorrows with students; (4) learning from the people; (5) learning from children ?This sounds very strange. In fact, a husband must learn from timid children so that he can understand the needs of children and have joys and sorrows with them. ? (6) On the negative side, eliminate formalities, dogmas, teacher pretensions, and strict boundaries between teachers and students.

72. I have eight good friends who are willing to guide me in everything. If you want to ask about the real name, there are different surnames: what, why, who, when, where, where, how, how, like younger brother and older brother. There is also a Western school whose name is called Geometry upside down. If you ask the Eight Sages for advice, you will not make a mistake even if you are a fool.

73. Working hard is the mother of all inventions. By working hard at everything, you can get the truth of things.

74. Every move, word and deed must be cultivated to the point of being worthy of being a teacher.

75. We must teach people, not only to teach them how it is, but also to teach them why it is so.

76. Society is school.

77. Life is education.

78. 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.

79. The fate of young people is in the hands of teachers, and the fate of the nation and mankind is in their hands.

80. Because morality is the foundation of being a human being. Once the foundation is bad, even if you have some knowledge and skills, it will be of little use.

81. 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.

82. We firmly believe that education is the fundamental plan of the country.

83. Schools are established for society. Without the ability to transform society, schools can simply close down.

84. We must use education that is accessible in all directions to create a society that is accessible in all directions.

85. Failure to use the power of society is incompetent education; failure to understand the needs of society is blind education. If we believe that society is a great school, we will naturally use the power of society to meet the needs of society.

86. We study knowledge not only to increase personal happiness, but also to transform society.

87. Democratic education should be education for the whole life. He should work to maintain his livelihood, study to gain a living, and work together to maintain his livelihood. It should be a harmonious life composed of health, science, art, labor and democracy, that is, harmonious education.

88. We must work hard to cultivate young people as soon as possible so that all of them can read and understand. And he is willing to devote his whole life to the country.

89. Democratic education teaches people to be masters, masters of themselves, the country, and the world. Democratic education is the education of the people, education run by the people, and for the happiness of the people themselves. education.

90. Education is to filter and use the influence of the environment on the basis of children themselves, so as to cultivate and strengthen their creativity, so that they can grow more powerful and contribute to the nation and mankind.

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