Liu Kunyi and the Educational Reform in the Late Years of the Qing Dynasty

An important Local official in the late period of the Qing Dynasty,Liu Kunyi played an important role in the political forum.As one of the main participant in the Reform Movement in its late stage,Liu Kunyi put forward a series of reformative suggestions and ideas in the field of education and positively put them into practice.He held that the civilian service examination should be reformed,that school should be established for training military and civilian talents,that the Eastern-style education should be combined with Westen-style education,that Chinese education should be combined with Westen-style education,that Chinese students should study overseas,that private schools should be allowed by the Government,and so on.These reformative ideas exerted a positive influence upon education in the late years of the Qing Dynasty and some of these ideas are still noteworthy even in present days.