Later, he had also launched the Life Education Association and the Work Study Movement.
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After the Japanese invasion of China began in 1937, Tao cut short a visit to the United States and returned to China. In 1939, he founded Yucai Middle School in the suburbs of Chongqing, then the interim capital of the country.He offered free education to refugee children and children of the Communist Party of China members.One of his students was Li Peng, who later became the premier of the People's Republic of China more than four decades later.
In 1909, with financial aid from a church, Tao studied Chinese literature at Nanking University, which merged a year later with the Private University of Nanking, in today's Nanjing in eastern China. After graduation in 1914, Tao continued his education in the United States.
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BuБайду номын сангаас when Tao returned to China in 1917 and began his own career as a liberal educator, he did not blindly champion Dewey's progressive education. Instead, he changed the American educator's motto of "Education is life itself" into "Life is education." He even changed his original given name Zhixing or "knowledge-action" into Xingzhi or "action-knowledge."
Tao Xingzhi, born in Anhui Province in eastern
China, Tao was the son of a bankrupt merchant and
the family was unable to afford his schooling. But
when Tao was six, a local village scholar discovered
In 1927, Tao set up Xiaozhuang Normal College in a village in the northern suburbs of Nanjing to train teachers who would teach in rural areas after their graduation.
Meanwhile, Tao also advocated his ideas of "society as school" and "integration of teaching, learning and acting."
To promote mass education, Tao joined hands with Y.C. James Yen, another liberal educator, in organizing a National Association of Mass Education Movements. They recruited thousands of volunteer teachers who at one time taught as many as 5 million students around the country.
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The breif introudction of Tao Wentsing
Educator and reformer , Tao Xingzhi devoted his life to promoting mass education in China, especially education in rural areas, in the first half of the 20th century.
that the boy was very bright and keen to study, so
he financed Tao's primary schooling.
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When Tao was 15, he was enrolled into a missionary school in Shexian County where his mother was a helper. On seeing his talent, the school's principal waived tuition. Tao completed three years of study in two years.
In the US, he obtained a master's degree in political science at the University of Illinois and then went on to study education under the guidance of John Dewey, an important American psychologist, philosopher and educational reformer. Dewey was a major representative of progressive education and liberalism.
The Comparision between John Dewey and Tao Wentsing
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Contents
The brief introduction
of Tao Xingzhi
Some educational
theories
The comparision