Liang Qichao's Expounding on the Aim of Education

Liang Qichao was the leading scholar who paid high attention to the aim of education in modern China.After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895,for the sake of saving the nation from extinction,Mr.Liang put forward a new guiding principle to run a school,namely Politics as major while technique as subsidiary.This apparently revealed his emphasis on the fostering of political talents.Later after the Hundred Days Reform,withfostering new people as his rallying point,Mr.Liang took the lead to elaborate theoretically on the aim of education in modern China.When the May 4th Movement came to an end,he posed another educational guiding principle,i.e.,to develop man's consummate character,andto be modern people.Meanwhile he proposed the Three virtues education with the education of man's character as a core.All of the mentioned above,to some extent,drove ahead the development of modern Chinese education.