Chen Liang' s Ideas on Education

Chen Liang is a famous patriotic educator of practical school in Song Dynasty. Taking Confucian scriptures, historical documents, zhuzi doctrines and all kinds of useful knowledge for understanding the realities and solving practical problems in his teaching, he adopted many teaching principles and methods to attain his goal of training outstanding men and talented men. In his debate with Zhu Xi, educator of idealist philosophy and others, he formed his unique educational ideas, many of which are of progressive significance in the Chinese history of educational ideology and so far still revealing to us.