Cai Yuanpei
1868–1940 · ChinaFirst minister of education of the Republic of China (1912) and head of Peking University from 1916 to 1926.Encyclopaedia Britannica · Cai Yuanpei ↗
Core ideas
- Five kinds of education should all be developed together: physical and military, practical, civic morality, worldview, and aesthetic education.Wikisource · Cai Yuanpei, views on the new education (1912) ↗
- Aesthetic education - art and beauty - can do for character what religion once did.Wikisource · Cai Yuanpei, replacing religion with aesthetic education (1917) ↗
What modern research supports
- Today's guidelines also ask for daily physical activity: at least 60 minutes a day for ages 5–17.World Health Organization, 2020
What is outdated or needs correcting
- He presented military-citizen education as a need of his time, given the threats China faced in 1912.Wikisource · Cai Yuanpei, views on the new education (1912) ↗