Taking People as a Dominant Factor:An Initial Approach to Professor Gu Mingyuan's Educational Thoughts

Mr.Gu Mingyuan's educational thoughts are very fertile.One of the important fundamental notions in his thoughts is that education should take people as a dominant factor,and should make the well-being of mankind.It formed the main theme of his thoughts on the essence of education,on the relationship between teachers and students,on the knowledge instruction,and on the human development and social progress.He always putpeople,including students,teachers and other people involved in process of education,into the core value and the final purpose of education.Professor Gu's thoughts on education taking peoples as a dominant factor have transcended the individual standard and of the social standard in the historical educational thoughts, revealing the truth about the dialectical relations between the developing of individual and social development in educational process at the level of the dialectical thoughts of Marxism.