辛亥革命与中国教育近代化

The 1911 Revolution and the Modernization of Chinese Education

辛亥革命推翻了清王朝的统治，结束了延续两千多年的封建专制制度，极大地推动了中国教育近代化的步伐。民国初年，在蔡元培和他的同事们领导下所进行的教育改革确立了新的教育宗旨，制订颁布了《壬子·癸丑学制》，力图清除封建主义的影响，改变价值取向的单一。这一切不仅在指导思想和学校制度层面为中国教育近代化奠定了一个新的基础，而且在实践层面有力地促进了普通教育和实业教育的发展，使清末以来各级各类教育发展极不平衡的局面得到较大改变，初步形成了严格意义上的近代教育体制。

The 1911 Revolution, which put an end to the regime of the Qing Dynasty and the over-2000-year feudal autocracy in China, greatly propelled the modernization of Chinese education. Led by Cai Yuanpei and his associates in the eary yeare of the Republic of China, the educational reform aiming at effacement of the feudal influence and diversification of educational values brought forth the new aim and system of eduation. This not only laid a new foundation of modern Chinese education in guiding ideology and system but also sub- stantially promoted the development of general and technical education in practice. As a result, the old unbal- anced and unsound schooling structure was considerably improved and a modern education system began to take shape.