Education For Life

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This book is an anthology of English writing on education by Tao Xingzhi, the great Chinese educator and thinker. It includes several articles that represent his educational ideas and life philosophy, such as China in Transition, Creative Education, The Little Teacher and the Literacy Movement, and Education for All. These works are not only highly readable, but also present educational philosophies that are closely related to real life, and can be used to highlight and correct the deviations of strongly utilitarian educational concepts in modern society. Further, the appendix includes stories, fables, and poems translated by Tao Xingzhi, as well as his own poems written in Chinese and translated into English. This book offers readers interested in education’s new perspectives and inspiration. It also contributes to a more comprehensive and accurate understanding of Tao Xingzhi as well as his educational theories. Contents 1 China in Transition 2 Moral and Religious Instruction in China 2.1 Practice of Religious and Moral Instruction in China 2.1.1 Government Schools 2.1.2 Religious and Moral Instruction in Missionary Schools in China 2.2 Theories of Education in Morals and Religion 2.2.1 The Psychological Basis for Moral and Religious Education 2.2.2 The Sociological Basis 2.2.3 The Pragmatic Basis 3 Education in China 1924 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Administration of Education 3.2.1 Administrative Units 3.2.2 Inspection and Supervision 3.2.3 Educational Finance 3.3 The New System of Schools 3.3.1 The System 3.3.2 The Divisions of Schools 3.4 The Training of Teachers 3.5 Some Recent Educational Activities and Developments 3.5.1 Educational Tests and Measurements 3.5.2 Medical and Social Welfare of School Children 3.5.3 Mass Education—A Movement to Remove Illiteracy 3.5.4 The Development of Science Instruction 3.5.5 The Library Movement 3.6 Missionary Education 3.7 A Few Concluding Remarks 4 China 4.1 Introduction 4.1.1 General Survey of the Forces Acting Upon Chinese Education 4.1.2 Foreign Affairs 4.1.3 Cancellation of Boxer Indemnities 4.1.4 Public Opinion in China 4.1.5 China, an Agricultural Nation 4.1.6 Industrial Development and the Labor Problem 4.1.7 Commercial Development 4.1.8 Flood and Famine 4.1.9 The Status of Communications 4.1.10 The Chinese Renaissance 4.1.11 Visits of World Scholars 4.1.12 The Critical Attitude of Chinese Schoolmen 5 China (1938) 5.1 Conditions of Rural Life 5.1.1 The Chinese Village 5.1.2 Population 5.1.3 Land Problem and Land Policy 5.1.4 Usury and Cooperatives 5.1.5 Diseases and Health Centers 5.1.6 Famine and the Control of Nature 5.1.7 External Aggression and United Resistance 5.2 Educational Conditions 5.2.1 Illiteracy and Education 5.2.2 Elementary Education 5.2.3 Adult Education 5.2.4 Compulsory Education 5.2.5 Training of Village Teachers 5.2.6 Experiments in Village Education 5.2.7 Peasant Education in Soviet China 5.2.8 The People’s Education Movement 5.3 Conclusion References 6 The Village Education Movement in China 6.1 The Magnitude of the Problem 6.2 The Village Schools of the Present 6.3 The New Movement Is Creative and Revolutionary 6.4 Three Steps 6.5 The Centre Schools 6.6 Centre Schools at Work 6.7 The Centre Village Kindergarten 6.8 The Experimental Village Normal School 6.9 The Department for Training Village Kindergarteners 6.10 The Research Council 6.11 Auxiliary Activities 7 MR. H. Chi’s New Contribution 8 Creative Education 8.1 School and Society 8.2 Education and Life 8.3 Education and Method 8.4 Education and the Masses 8.5 Education and the Student 9 The Little Teacher and the Literacy Movement 10 The New Mass Education Movement 11 China: The Mass Education Movement 12 The People’s Education Movement in China 12.1 The Scholar Ghost 12.2 Hands and Brains Unite 12.3 Labour Science Union 12.4 The Little Teachers 12.5 Relay Teachers 12.6 Relay Teaching Applied by Women Workers 12.7 A New Script 12.8 Society as School 12.9 Birth of a New Peasantry 13 War in China: Struggle for Liberty or Slavery 14 Education for All 14.1 Possibilities of Realization 14.2 First Year’s Budget for Starting the Movement (October 1, 1945—September 30, 1946) 14.3 Financial Campaign 14.4 Results Expected 15 Yu Tsai School for Talented Refugee Children 15.1 The Founding of Yu Tsai School 15.2 Threefold Criteria of Yu Tsai School 15.3 The Guiding Principles of Yu Tsai School 15.4 Facts about Yu Tsai School 15.5 Hands and Brain Unite (School Song of Yu Tsai) 16 Answers to Questions About Yu Tsai School 17 Seeking Financial Aid from Foreign Friends for Yu Tsai School 18 On “Creative Relief” 19 My Résumé and My Plan of Life Career 20 Four Letters by W. T. Tao