张之洞的湖北兴学及其影响

ZHANG Zhi-dong's Initiations of Schools in Hubei and Its Influence

自古以来,湖北就有着“唯楚有才”的美誉,教育水平长期处在中国的前列。鸦片战争后,中国社会发生了巨大的变化,沿海地区的教育得到充分的发展,相对而言,此时的湖北教育已经滞后于其他许多省份。1889年晚清名臣张之洞任湖广总督,在任职的17年里,他改造旧学堂,创办新式学堂,大力提倡留学教育,一系列的举措使得湖北教育呈现出蔚为大观之势,到19世纪末20世纪初,湖北成为中国之教育强省。此文旨在探讨张之洞的兴学对晚清湖北教育发展的贡献以及这种发展对湖北乃至全国的影响。

Hubei province stood in the forefront of education in china in the ancient society, but Chinese society had been changed a lot during the opium war and the education of coastal areas had made a progress, so Hubei fell behind the other areas then. When Zhang Zhi--dong took charge of Hubei from 1898, during seventeen years, he transformed the old school, built the new school system and advocated and dispatched student studying abroad, a series of actions made the education of Hubei achieve tremendous improvement, and Hubei became a powerful province of education in china again. This paper is to talk about Zhang Zhi-dong＇s initiating schools in Hubei Province and its lasting influence.