1, "Life is education". It is the ontology of life education theory, also called the theory of origin. Tao Xingzhi believes that education comes from life and advocates that education should rely on life and transform life.

2. "Society is school". It is the place theory of life education theory. It is believed that society itself is a big school, and education should rely on the strength of society to meet the needs of society.

3. "Teaching, learning and doing are one". It is the methodology of life education theory. It is believed that teaching methods, learning methods and practice are inseparable in life. Advocating how to do things, students should learn how; Teachers should teach students how to learn.

On Tao Xingzhi's Life Education is a book published by Hubei Education Press in May 1 1, and the author is Zhou Hongyu. This book can provide some help for educators to fully understand, study, study and apply Tao Xingzhi's educational thoughts. This book strives to take historical materialism as the guiding ideology.

With historical research, comparative research, theoretical research and systematic analysis as the main research methods, we can know, understand and describe Tao Xingzhi and his life education theory under certain social and historical conditions and ideological and cultural atmosphere, so as to combine history and logic, abstraction and concreteness, theory and practice, and local and overseas.

Brief introduction of the author

Zhou Hongyu, 65438-0958, was born in Wuhan, Hubei. Master of Education, Doctor of History, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of School of Education, Huazhong Normal University, Adjunct Professor of Wuhan University and Hubei University. Senior Visiting Scholar, School of Education, Columbia University and School of Education, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Deputies to the 10th and 11th National People's Congress.

He is currently deputy director of the Standing Committee of Hubei Provincial People's Congress, vice president of the National Local Education History Research Association, vice president of Hubei Higher Education Association, member of the Education Development Strategy Discipline Group of the National Education Science Planning Leading Group of the Ministry of Education, member of the National College Setting Committee of the Ministry of Education, and president of the Yangtze River Education Research Institute.