What is Tao Xingzhi's pre-school education thought?

Tao Xingzhi's pre-school education thought is perception and promotion. Tao Xingzhi follows the propositions of "life is education" and "society is school", and his understanding of curriculum resources is extremely broad. The core idea of the new curriculum is for the development of every child. The new curriculum should not only liberate students, but also closely combine life with education.

Life provides rich educational resources. People used to regard courses and textbooks as the world, but now they should regard the world as courses and textbooks. Education is for the needs of life, and education is for life, in order to improve the living environment and improve the quality of life.

First of all, Tao Xingzhi pointed out the importance of preschool education. He realized the fundamental role of preschool education in people's life development: "Children, like seedlings, must be properly trained to thrive." Preschool education "is really the foundation of life, so we should set it up early." Good habits formed in pre-school period can lay a good foundation for future development; On the contrary, children who develop bad habits before school will be limited in their development throughout their lives.

Secondly, Tao Xingzhi realized that preschool education has not received due attention in China. Preschool education in ancient China was basically carried out in the family. With the introduction of western ideas and the stimulation of missionary schools, modern China began to attach importance to public preschool education. During the period of 1903, the Qing government promulgated the Charter of the Nursing Home and the Charter of the Family Education Law, which brought preschool education into the academic system for the first time.

However, this educational system, based on the Japanese educational system and guided by "middle school as the body and western learning as the application", does not give preschool education its due status, but only regards foster families as an accessory to family education.

Moreover, the teachers in nursing homes are well-trained nurseries, and these women with extremely low educational level and strong feudal ideas cannot undertake the function of educating preschool children in nursing homes. By the 1920s and 1930s, these conditions had not been effectively changed, and Tao Xingzhi loudly paid attention to the development of preschool education.