Yuan Shikai and Modern Education Reform

Yuan Shikai and Zhang Zhidong presented an memorial to Emperor to put an end to imperial examination system at last,whereas the new education systems still needed to develop.Yuan Shikai carried out education reform in his position of governor in Zhili and he made Yan Xiu the designer of reform and made more achievements,and the conception of reform was close to the western and Japan' s goal to cultivate the folks' wisdom and develop folks education,therefore Zhili's education paid much attention to develop common education and centered on kindergarten,elementary and high school in consistent from the start on.