辛亥革命前后,面对空前深重的民族和社会危机,蔡元培先生致力于“扶大厦之将倾”、“救生民于水火”之民族大业,把大力发展社会教育以“培养完全之人格”和“强固民主共和精神”视为新民、强族、救中国的历史使命与责任。无论在朝在野,蔡元培先生毕生一以贯之、身体力行地探索社会教育理论,并努力实践以建构多元化的现代社会教育形制,影响深远。
<<Around the Xinhai Revolution,When facing the unprecedentedly grave national and social crisis,Mr. CAI Yuanpei was committed to the national cause of preventing China from collapse and rescuing the people from untold miseries. Mr. Cai tried to develop social education to cultivate Chinese with “intact personalities”,“strengthen Chinese people’s understanding of democratic and republican spirit”. He regarded social education as the historical mission and responsibility of New Citizen to empower our ethnicities,and save China. Whether in office or retired,Mr. Cai devoted his whole life to consistently exploring the theories of social education. He made great efforts in practicing in order to build a diversified and far-reaching modern social education system.
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