教会学校的兴起与近代中国的教育改革

The Start of Missionary Schools and the Reform of Education in Modern China

近代来华传教士在中国创办了一大批教会学校 ,它们经过产生、发展进而走向成熟。教会兴学的目的是为了传教布道 ,或称之为“以学辅教” ,但教会学校的出现打破了国人陈旧僵腐的教育观念 ,对以科举考试为中心的传统教育发出了猛烈的挑战 ,展示了新式教育的美好前景 。

In modern China, missionaries came to China and started some missionary schools. They had undergone a process of a birth period, development period and flourishing period. Missionaries started missionary schools to preach Christianity or preach by education. The start of missionary schools shook the old beliefs about education in China and challenged the Chinese traditional education with imperial examinations at its core. It displayed the good prospective of new education and had healthy influence on the reform of education in modern China.