吴汝纶的西学观及体育教育思想

WU Ru-lnu's Veiw of Western Learnings and his Thought of Physical Education

桐城派后期大师吴汝纶,是清末一位有影响的教育家。他力主西学,引进西方近代体操课;他把进化论的思想,延伸到学校体育教育领域,提出"优胜劣败"、"保民留种"的体育思想;他对家乡教育尤挚,创办皖省第一所新式学堂——桐城中学堂,聘请体操教习,开设体操课,开展各种体育活动。西方近代体育教育体系清末在桐中日臻完善。

WU Ru-lun was an influential educator in Tucheng school.He advocated western learnings and introduced the modern western physical culture.He expanded the theory of the fittest to the physical cultrue of schools.He concerned himself deeply with his native education and founded the first new school—Tucheng Middle school in Anhui.Under his influence and by his indefatigable effort the modern western physical culture was enhancednear to perfection in Tucheng Middle school.