The excerpts of kindergarten teacher Chen Heqin’s famous sayings are as follows:

1. Everything is for the children, everything for the children.

2. Games are children’s life.

3. It is too late to start early childhood education from the age of three.

4. Teach children to use language and learn various arts. Words are the tools of thought.

5. We believe that kindergarten teachers should be children’s friends.

6. Children are born to be active and take games as their life.

7. Kindergarten curriculum needs to be planned in advance, but it can be changed temporarily.

8. We believe that kindergartens should have sufficient and appropriate equipment.

9. You must have a heart that loves and cares for children.

10. Children should be allowed to do anything they can do by themselves.

Chen Heqin (March 5, 1892 - December 30, 1982), a native of Shangyu, Zhejiang, was a famous Chinese children's educator, child psychologist, member of Jingxing Society, and a leader of modern early childhood education in China. Founder.

Chen Heqin believes that the curriculum content of traditional education is fixed and the teaching materials are rigid. Teachers just learn one lesson after another, and students just learn one lesson after another. This kind of reading can only create "nerds". In view of the serious shortcomings of traditional education, we can only advocate "living education" and look for "living teaching materials" in nature and large society.

What Chen Heqin calls "living teaching materials" refers to books taken directly from nature and society, which allow children to gain experience and knowledge through direct contact with nature and society, and through personal observation. The curriculum theory of "living education" does not abandon books, but only emphasizes the living nature and society that have always been ignored by education. Book knowledge should be a reflection of the real world and should be confirmed and reflected in nature and society. Children's physical and mental characteristics and life characteristics. ?

He embodied the content of living education as "five-finger activities". That is, health activities, social activities, scientific activities, artistic activities and literary activities, the purpose of which is to cultivate children's ideal life.