“救国千万事,造人为最要”——胡适《留学日记》阅读札记

"To Cultivate People Is the Most Important Among a Multitude of Issues in Saving a Nation"——Reading Notes of Diary of Studying Abroad by Hu Shi

一部近80万字的《留学日记》详细记录了1910年至1917年胡适留学美国期间的生活、学习和所思所想。胡适认为,"救国千万事,造人为最要",而"树人之道,端赖教育"。教育救国最重要的内容,就是要办好中国自己的大学,特别是一流大学。在归国后的近半个世纪里,胡适几乎把自己的全部精力都献给了祖国的文化教育科学事业,特别是高等教育事业,在中国教育早期现代化的历史进程中做出了积极的贡献。

With nearly 80 000 words, Diary of Studying Abroad has detailedly recorded the living, study and thinking of Hu Shi when he studied in America from 1910 to 1917. Hu Shi insisted that to cultivate people should be the most important among a multitude of issues in saving a nation, and education was the first priority of the ways to cultivate people. To operate well with the universities, especially the first-class universities in China was the most important content of saving the nation by education. Within nearly half a century when returning to China, Hu Shi devoted himself wholly to the cultural, educational and scientific undertakings, especially to higher education in China, making great contributions to the historical progress of early modernization of Chinese education.