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Tao Xingzhi

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Chen Yuhong, Wu Dan

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January 2026

Selected Works on Education by Tao Xingzhi

Author: Tao Xingzhi

Translator: Chen Yuhong, Wu Dan

ISBN: 978-1-967368-28-0

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CONTENTS

      Establish A Society with Extensive and Convenient Connections
      (Nov. 13 1923)
      In 1913
      The Origin of the “Supplement to Jinling Light in Chinese” (February)
      A Message to Students Across the Country Regarding Exams (May)
      In 1914
      Alas, at a Certain School (January)
      The Essence of Republicanism (June)
      In 1916
      Moral and Religious Education in China (Excerpt) (November)
      In 1917
      China in Transition (March)
      The Educational Method of Experimentalism (Second Half of the Year)
      In 1918
      Vocational Education Based on the Principle of Profitability (January 15th)
      The Concepts That Teacher-Training Students Ought to Have (May)
      On the Scientific Approach to Education (September 27th)
      In 1919
      Teaching and Learning as One (February 24th)
      The Implementation of Experimental Education (April 14th)
      First-Rate Educators (April 21st)
      New Education (July, 22nd)
      Research on the Issue of Student Self-Governance (October, 1919)
      In 1920
      Opinions on the Issue of the Appointment of the Director of the Department of Education (November ,25th)
      In 1921
      Local Educational Administration as a Specialized Field (July)
      Opportunities and Responsibilities of Educators (July 7th)
      Dynamic Education (August)
      In 1922
      The Past and Future of Women’s Education in China (March 8th)
      Opinions on Participating in the International Education Movement (March)
      In 1923
      Lecture on Education and Scientific Method (January 15th)
      Preface to Educational Statistics of China (May)
      Students and Mass Education / Popular Education (November 13th-27th)
      In 1924
      Hope You Will Become the Director of Education for Thirty Million People —Letter to Mr. Lu Shaoliu, Director of the Anhui Provincial Department of Education (February 8th)
      In 1925
      Discussion on China’s Educational Policy (August 21st)
      The Inception of New Education Review (September)
      The Spirit of Students (October 19th-24th)
      The Importance and Methods of Public Education (October 20th)
      Review of Chen’s Family Education —To Be Read by All Parents (December 11th)
      In 1926
      Rural Teacher Education Movement (January 8th)
      Declaration on the Establishment of Rural Kindergartens (October 29th)
      Our Creed (November 21st)
      On the Construction of Teacher Education in China (December 3rd)
      The China Educational Improvement Society’s Manifesto for Transforming National Rural Education (December 3rd)
      Fundamental Reformation of China’s Rural Education (December 12th)
      In 1927
      Church Education and Private Schools — A Letter in Response to Mr. Yang Jizong of Tongren Middle School (January)
      Thorough Reform of Teacher Education —A Reply to the Letter from Shi Minyong and Others (February 3rd)
      Practical Life Is Our Compass —A Letter to All Students (May 15th)
      Action Is the Beginning of Knowledge (June)
      Instrumentalism in Life-Oriented Education (June 15th)
      How to Empower Farmers to Rise Up (August 15th)
      Equality and Freedom (September 1st)
      The Unity of Teaching, Learning, and Practice (November 2nd)
      Mental Application in Manual Labor (November 3rd)
      Teaching Others is Teaching Oneself (November 5th)
      The Midwife of Our School’s Birth (November 7th)
      On the Founding Purposes of the Xiaozhuang Experimental Rural Normal School (August 14th)
      A Glimpse of China’s Rural Education Movement (September 27th)
      In 1928
      “The ‘Pseudo-Intellectual’ Class” (January 31st)
      Moral Issues(June 8th)
      Introducing a Great Cause — A Letter to University Students (August 18th)
      Preface to Dawn Breaks (November 24th)
      In 1929
      The True Significance of Libraries in 1929 (January 28th)
      Local Education and Rural Transformation (February)
      This Year (March 15th)
      Preface to At Xiaozhuang (April 28th)
      Biology or the Study of Dead Organisms (May) —To Zheng Xianwen
      A Comprehensive Explanation of “The Integration of Doing, Learning, and Teaching” (July)
      In 1930
      Life Is Education (January 16th)
      Life Calendar (July)
      Educational Improvement (July)
      Art Friend System in Education (July)
      In 1931
      Discussion on Fundamental Issues in Education Henceforth (August)
      A Scientific Life (September 21st)
      Textbooks Under the Framework of The Integration of Teaching, Learning, and Doing (October)
      Children of Science (November 16th)
      The Value of Human Life in China (November 9th)
      In 1932
      Right and Wrong (January 21st–22nd)
      Children’s Science Education (May 13th)
      A New Proposal for Rural Education —An Experiment with Rural Work-Study Groups (August)
      Cultivating a Rational Approach to Life (August)
      Seeking a Way Out of National Crisis Through Education — Combining Mental and Manual Labor(September 20th)
      Two Paths in Current Chinese Education —Teaching the Mentally Engaged to Engage in Manual Labor, and Teaching the Manually Engaged to Engage in Mental Work
      In 1933
      Education of Creation (March)
      Middle School Students of the Past and Future (March 10th)
      Little Teachers and the Popularization of Education (April 16th)
      The Policy of Serving Farmers and the Method of Pursuing Knowledge(September 16th)
      In 1934
      What is Life Education? (February 16th)
      How to Guide the Little Teachers (April 1st, 1934)
      How to Achieve “Work as a Means of Sustaining Life” (May 6th)
      The Murderous Unified Examinations and the Examination for Creativity (June 1st)
      Summary of Life Education (June)
      Xing-Zhi-Xing (July 16th)
      A Brief History of the Universal Education Movement (October)
      The Rebirth of Education (October 13th)
      Reading and Applying Knowledge (November 10th)
      “Little Teachers and Popular Education” (December 1st)
      Several Practical Issues in Modern Education (December)
      Universal Education (December 24th)
      Pursuing the Forefront of the Times (December 30th)
      In 1935
      Discussion on China’s Mass Education Plan (January 1st)
      Children’s World (January 1st)
      Modernization of Life Education (March 1st)
      Cultural Cells (May 1st)
      Cultural Network (May 16th)
      In 1936
      The Essentials of Universal Education & What Education to Universalize (February)
      Mass Education for National Crisis: Characteristics of the Plan (March 1st)
      New Mass Education Movement (March 15th)
      How to Be a Teacher of the Masses (April 1st)
      The Problem of Mass Education (May 1st)
      Our Attitude (May 1st)
      Introduction to Mass Education in China (May 10th)
      New University - The University of the Masses (June 1st)
      Cultural Emancipation (June 14th)
      Mass Education Movement in China (August)
      In 1937
      Understanding and Hopes for the Chinese Student Movement (May 29th)
      Self-Questioning (July 12th)
      Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of Rural Education(October 10th)
      On Chinese Culture ——A Teacher’s Perspective on Chinese Culture (November 26th)
      In 1938
      The Twelve-Character Theory: A Letter to Wu Shuqin (January 4th)
      Three Major Undertakings Upon Returning to China (September 1st)
      The Current Tasks of Life Education (December 15th)
      Appendix: Excerpt from the Minutes of the Inaugural Conference of the Life Education Society — Notes on Tao Xingzhi’s Interjections
      Speech at the General Assembly of the Life Education Societ’s Headquarters (December 15th)
      Appendix: Guo Moruo’s Speech at the General Assembly of the Living Education Society
      In 1939
      The Educational Process (March 9th)
      Commentary on Strengthening Party-Oriented Education (March 10th)
      A Letter to Comrades of the Life Education Society — Written for the 12th Anniversary of the Life Education Movement (March 15th)
      Draft National Plan for Refugee Education (March 20th)
      How to Run Education (June 27th)
      Discussion on Life Education at Wenquan(July 30th)
      The Constitutional Movement and National Education (November 16th)
      The Little Teachers During the Anti-Japanese War —To the Little Teacher Promotion Committee of Chongqing No.6 Central School (December 19th)
      Appendix: Letter from the Little Teacher Promotion Committee of Chongqing No.6 Central School
      Our School Emblem (December 25th)
      The Connotations of Yucai School’s Three-Circle Emblem: A Multifaceted Application of the Trinity (September 30th)
      My Perspective on Popular Education (December 25th)
      On Life Education — A Reply to a Friend’s Letter (December)
      In 1940
      Childcare Issues (February 10th)
      A Letter to Comrades on the Occasion of the 13th Anniversary of the Life Education Movement
      The Purpose and Vision of Yucai School (May 1st)
      Draft Educational Outline for Yucai School (August 1st)
      In 1941
      Qingshui Sand Table① — Dedicated to All Children Nationwide (January 10th)
      Seek Truth, Be Authentic —A Letter to Tao Xiaoguang (January 25th)
      In 1942
      Speech at the 15th Anniversary Commemoration of the Life Education Movement (March 15th)
      In 1943
      Creation Manifesto (October 13th)
      Conversation with Lu Yi (October 15th and 16th)
      In 1944
      Looking from the Fifth Anniversary to the Fiftieth (June)
      Youth Education and Ideological Issues (June 25th)
      Democracy First (September 6th)
      Creative Education for Children (September 20th)
      Musical Sensitivity and the Development of Dance (November 3rd)
      Shattering Children’s Hell, Creating Children’s Paradise (December 15th)
      On “Creative Relief” — A Letter to Gan Linlin (December 25th)
      In 1945
      Social Education Created (January 28th)
      Democratic Children’s Day(April 4th)
      Art is What the Common People Need and Love Most (April 22nd)
      Outline for Implementing Democratic Education (May)
      Education for All (September 18th)
      Democracy (November 1st)
      Democratic Education (November 1st)
      Preface to The Collected Poems of Xingzhi (December 9th)
      Facing Death with Equanimity – To Wu Shuqin (December 9th)
      Establish A Society with Extensive and Convenient Connections
      (Nov. 13 1923)
      In 1913
      The Origin of the “Supplement to Jinling Light in Chinese” (February)
      A Message to Students Across the Country Regarding Exams (May)
      In 1914
      Alas, at a Certain School (January)
      The Essence of Republicanism (June)
      In 1916
      Moral and Religious Education in China (Excerpt) (November)
      In 1917
      China in Transition (March)
      The Educational Method of Experimentalism (Second Half of the Year)
      In 1918
      Vocational Education Based on the Principle of Profitability (January 15th)
      The Concepts That Teacher-Training Students Ought to Have (May)
      On the Scientific Approach to Education (September 27th)
      In 1919
      Teaching and Learning as One (February 24th)
      The Implementation of Experimental Education (April 14th)
      First-Rate Educators (April 21st)
      New Education (July, 22nd)
      Research on the Issue of Student Self-Governance (October, 1919)
      In 1920
      Opinions on the Issue of the Appointment of the Director of the Department of Education (November ,25th)
      In 1921
      Local Educational Administration as a Specialized Field (July)
      Opportunities and Responsibilities of Educators (July 7th)
      Dynamic Education (August)
      In 1922
      The Past and Future of Women’s Education in China (March 8th)
      Opinions on Participating in the International Education Movement (March)
      In 1923
      Lecture on Education and Scientific Method (January 15th)
      Preface to Educational Statistics of China (May)
      Students and Mass Education / Popular Education (November 13th-27th)
      In 1924
      Hope You Will Become the Director of Education for Thirty Million People —Letter to Mr. Lu Shaoliu, Director of the Anhui Provincial Department of Education (February 8th)
      In 1925
      Discussion on China’s Educational Policy (August 21st)
      The Inception of New Education Review (September)
      The Spirit of Students (October 19th-24th)
      The Importance and Methods of Public Education (October 20th)
      Review of Chen’s Family Education —To Be Read by All Parents (December 11th)
      In 1926
      Rural Teacher Education Movement (January 8th)
      Declaration on the Establishment of Rural Kindergartens (October 29th)
      Our Creed (November 21st)
      On the Construction of Teacher Education in China (December 3rd)
      The China Educational Improvement Society’s Manifesto for Transforming National Rural Education (December 3rd)
      Fundamental Reformation of China’s Rural Education (December 12th)
      In 1927
      Church Education and Private Schools — A Letter in Response to Mr. Yang Jizong of Tongren Middle School (January)
      Thorough Reform of Teacher Education —A Reply to the Letter from Shi Minyong and Others (February 3rd)
      Practical Life Is Our Compass —A Letter to All Students (May 15th)
      Action Is the Beginning of Knowledge (June)
      Instrumentalism in Life-Oriented Education (June 15th)
      How to Empower Farmers to Rise Up (August 15th)
      Equality and Freedom (September 1st)
      The Unity of Teaching, Learning, and Practice (November 2nd)
      Mental Application in Manual Labor (November 3rd)
      Teaching Others is Teaching Oneself (November 5th)
      The Midwife of Our School’s Birth (November 7th)
      On the Founding Purposes of the Xiaozhuang Experimental Rural Normal School (August 14th)
      A Glimpse of China’s Rural Education Movement (September 27th)
      In 1928
      “The ‘Pseudo-Intellectual’ Class” (January 31st)
      Moral Issues(June 8th)
      Introducing a Great Cause — A Letter to University Students (August 18th)
      Preface to Dawn Breaks (November 24th)
      In 1929
      The True Significance of Libraries in 1929 (January 28th)
      Local Education and Rural Transformation (February)
      This Year (March 15th)
      Preface to At Xiaozhuang (April 28th)
      Biology or the Study of Dead Organisms (May) —To Zheng Xianwen
      A Comprehensive Explanation of “The Integration of Doing, Learning, and Teaching” (July)
      In 1930
      Life Is Education (January 16th)
      Life Calendar (July)
      Educational Improvement (July)
      Art Friend System in Education (July)
      In 1931
      Discussion on Fundamental Issues in Education Henceforth (August)
      A Scientific Life (September 21st)
      Textbooks Under the Framework of The Integration of Teaching, Learning, and Doing (October)
      Children of Science (November 16th)
      The Value of Human Life in China (November 9th)
      In 1932
      Right and Wrong (January 21st–22nd)
      Children’s Science Education (May 13th)
      A New Proposal for Rural Education —An Experiment with Rural Work-Study Groups (August)
      Cultivating a Rational Approach to Life (August)
      Seeking a Way Out of National Crisis Through Education — Combining Mental and Manual Labor(September 20th)