A Survey of Studies on Liang Qichao's Value Judgments Concerning Women's Education

Liang Qichao's Views on women's education are profound and far-reaching.He stressed the urgency of fostering new types of citizens,the importance of enlightening the people,and the necessity of opening schools,especially schools for women.He argued that the opening of women's schools took the highest priority in so much as it could help to bring about the enlightenment,equality,as well as the quality improvement on the part of the whole nation,and even to facilitate the character reshaping of new-type citizens.Only through the employment of new modes of education can women be turned into'new-type human beings' with good morality,sound wisdom and superb strength.Liang's ideology on women's education has greatly motivated the development of the course of women's education and hence have accelerated the modernization drive of Chinese educational course for the fact that he put much emphasis on the education of women in terms of the combination of moral sense improvement and working ability enhancement,enlightening and saving the nation from destruction,self-respect and patriotisms,individualism and collectivism,realism and idealism,economic independence and equality with men