Brief Study of Tao Xingzhi’s Poetry Educational Thoughts

Abstract

Poetry education has been a long-time tradition in china. The poems contained nutritious spiritual value has played fundamental role in Chinese people’s personality development. In Tao Xingzhi’s educational thoughts, practice poetry education has been his unique educational feature. By using poetry, he has popularizing pedagogic theory, recording educational practice, expressing educational beliefs and also delivering pedagogic wisdom. The principle and goal of Tao Xingzhi’s poetry educational is to teach people search for truth and to develop a poetic character. Poetry education’s core value is to encourage creative thinking and to practice poetic life style in daily life.