The Characteristics of Cai Yuanpei's Educational Thoughts

Being a founder of the educational idea of China's modern university, Cai Yuanpei stressed that university should study on the Profound Knowledge and is leaded by academic masters, and academic contending has an important significance for academic development. He believed that based on general education, higher education should take aesthetic education as the main approach of purifying mind and take physical education, intellectual education, moral education and aesthetic education as educational policy so as to train the all-round development educated. Cai Yuanpei's educational thought has still a lasting significance today.