蔡元培:中国现代教育的奠基人

Cai Yuanpei:The Founder of Modern Education in China

蔡元培主张教育独立与学术自由,在担任中华民国首任教育总长时,倡导和践行美育,为民国确立了新的教育宗旨;作为校长,革新北大,建立了现代大学制度;坚持学术独立的原则,为国家建立了第一个学术研究机构—中央研究院,并担任院长。蔡元培为中国教育现代化与科学研究的建制化作出了不可磨灭的贡献,是中国现代教育的奠基人。

Cai Yuanpei advocated independence of education and academic freedom in all his life. As the first Minister of Education, he strongly advocated aesthetic education and put it into practice, thus laying the foundation for the mission of education during the Republic of China. When he was the President of Peking University, tremendous changes took place and it was successfully transformed into a modern university. As the President of Academia Sinica, he established the first national research institute and insisted on the principle of academic freedom. In a word,Cai was the founder of modern education of China due to his everlasting contributions to the modernization of education and institutionalization of academic research.