From Rigid Education to Living Education

There is an explorative period of about 10 years before the establishment of the life education theory.During this period,Tao Xingzhi diagnosed the crux of the Chinese education:rigidness,no matter in traditional education,or the so-called new school since the Qing imperial education.The phenomenon of reading mechanically or in a pedantic way and blindly accepting the conclusions given by books still continued even after the death of imperial examinations.Moreover,Tao Xingzhi advocated and practiced the idea of life education with independence,automation,autonomy,test,innovation,and work as the core.