Teachers teach people to pursue the truth, and students learn to be people with good conduct. It is a couplet, usually used to advocate teaching people to seek truth and teach people to be real people. Source: Tao Zhixing’s famous sayings and views on education.

Modern China was facing many crises, but Tao Xingzhi was unswervingly determined. He walked through Wang Yangming and Dewey, and used three names to realize a "knowledge-doing problem". And in this, he witnessed the path of exploration and reform of education in our country, sacrificed himself, and completed a redemption movement for educational modernization. "Thousands of teachings teach people to seek the truth; thousands of studies teach them to be a true person." His spirit is admired by everyone and admired by the world.

Main Contributions

Mr. Tao Xingzhi devoted his life to education and made pioneering contributions to the modernization of education in our country. He not only created a complete educational theoretical system, but also carried out a large number of educational practices. A careful examination of Tao Xingzhi’s educational thoughts reveals that innovation is like a golden thread that runs through every part of Tao Xingzhi’s educational thoughts.

Innovation here refers to getting rid of the "old" that does not meet the needs of the development of the times and creating the "new" that is consistent with social and historical progress.

Innovation also has the meaning of breaking idols, getting rid of superstition, breaking away from the shackles of dogma, and getting out of rigid and habitual thinking