Briefly describe Gong Zizhen's criticism and reform of the late Qing education and the significance of the ideas.

Answer: Gong Zizhen was an important representative of the reformist school in the late Qing Dynasty, and his ideas on culture and education are very representative.

(1) Gong Zizhen's Criticism and Reform of Education at the End of the Qing Dynasty

1) In education, Gong Zizhen opposed the detachment of education from reality and advocated the use of the world. He criticized the people educated at that time as being ignorant, uneducated and arrogant, and mercilessly satirized and exposed education at that time.

②On the imperial examination system, Gong Zizhen pointed out that the imperial examination system has reached the end of the road.

③Gong Zizhen advocated that one should study valuable knowledge, and even learn Western strange weapons to resist foreign enemies by force. He advocated the study of foreign scientific knowledge to enrich the country and strengthen the army. He believed that the "Song" from the empty talk about the nature of the mind and the tedious study of the study of the evidence, research on practical issues, to participate in the actual struggle. He called for a change in the order of merit, in order to collect real talent, and advocated the use of political and economic aspects of the actual problems of the examination students, to understand their understanding of ancient and modern current affairs or not.

(2) The Significance of Gong Zizhen's Educational Reforms

Because of the class and historical limitations, although Gong Zizhen could not propose any reforms beyond the traditional feudal education ideology, the criticism and reforms of feudal education he proposed had the significance of opening up a new wind in the late Qing Dynasty, which not only influenced the intellectuals of his contemporaries but also affected the bourgeoisie until the end of the 19th century. The reformers of the bourgeoisie at the end of the 19th century.