On Cai Yuan-pei's Humanistic View in Education

In the history of modern China's educational thoughts, Cai Yuan pei systematically put forward the humanistic educational view at an earlier stage. His important ideas are as follows: aesthetic education should replace religion; the ideal of education lies in the cultivation of man's personality; the students take freedom and incorporation as principle; science and aesthetics are of the same importance in deucation; education should respect and develop personality, etc. This educational idea reflects the agreement of the national tradition and the world point of view and the agreement of the spirit of the time and the perspectives of the future. It's a spiritual legacy worth being valued and inherited.