Tao Xingzhi was a renowned Chinese educator and reformer in the Republic of China mainland era. He studied at Teachers College, Columbia University, and returned to China to champion progressive education.
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Tao Xingzhi with John Dewey in Shanghai in 1919. Front row from left: Shi Liangcai, Dewey's wife Alice and Dewey. Back row from left: Hu Shih, Jiang Menglin, Tao and Zhang Zuoping.
From left, Xu Zhimo, Zhu Jingnong, Cao Chengying, Hu Shih, Wang Jingwei, Tao Xingzhi, Ma Junwu, Alice Dewey and Chen Weizhe in Hangzhou in September 1924.
Statue of Tao Xingzhi in his birthplace, She County, AnhuiEducators born in the 1890s 6
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Tao Xingzhi was a renowned Chinese educator and reformer in the Republic of China mainland era. He studied at Teachers College, Columbia University, and returned to China to champion progressive education. His career in China as a liberal educator was not derivative of John Dewey, as some have alleged, but creative and adaptive. He returned to China at a time when the American influence was zesty and self-confident, and his very name at that time (zhixing) meant "knowledge-action," reflecting the catch-phrase of the Neo-Confucian philosopher Wang Yangming which implied that once knowledge (zhi) had been obtained, then action (xing) would be easy.
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