Who was the first educator in China to establish a large scale private school?

The first educator in China to establish a large-scale private school was Cai Yuanpei. Cai Yuanpei is an educator, thinker and politician in modern China, and has played an extremely important role in the development of modern education in China. He was born into an educational family, was influenced by family education from an early age, and learned Western knowledge at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In his educational philosophy, he advocated the promotion of universal education and the improvement of the cultural literacy of the general public and the masses, so as to achieve the goal of China's modernization.

In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, Cai Yuanpei founded the "Nanyang Public School" and the "Beijing Higher Normal School", which were major events in modern Chinese education. Nanyang College is the first large-scale private school founded by Chinese in China, which has played an important role in cultivating Chinese. Beijing Higher Normal School is a landmark building of modern education in China, which has cultivated a large number of outstanding educators, scientific and cultural celebrities, and has made outstanding contributions to the development of modern education and science in China.

Cai Yuanpei is one of the founders of modern education in China, and he has made indelible contributions to China's education, and is known as the "champion of education". His educational philosophy and practical experience still have important reference significance for China's education and education reform today.

Yan Fu, an educator in the late Qing Dynasty, was the first person in China to establish a large-scale private school. He founded the "Wanli Academy", one of the most influential private schools in modern China, and has cultivated many outstanding talents. Yan Fu's educational ideology is based on the theme of "learning from things", focusing on practicality and life, and encouraging students to think independently and improve their practical ability.

His private school was not only borrowed by the Qing Dynasty and the Japanese Emperor, but also inspired new ideas and changes in modern Chinese education.

According to the "History of Chinese Education" and "The History of Private Education in China", according to the existing historical materials, it is difficult to find out who was the first to establish a private school. Historically, private learning appeared in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, after the "Chinese rebellion", the world was in turmoil, and many officials in charge of culture in the court were scattered to various places to make a living.

Analects. Weizi records: "The master is suitable for Qi, the Asian rice is suitable for Chu, and the three rice is suitable for Cai." It means that the master of the music palace will go to the country of Qi, the musician will go to the country of Chu, and the master of the musician will go to the country of Cai. These cultures, which are in charge of ritual music, have been exiled to various countries, relying on their own skills to make a living by imparting culture, which is the origin of private learning. Although it is impossible to find who was the first person to run a private school in the historical materials, if it is judged by the large scale, high achievement, huge contribution and far-reaching influence of the private school, it is Confucius.

Therefore, we can take Confucius as the initiator of private learning.

It originated in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period and flourished in the middle of the Warring States Period. At that time, the declining government education could no longer meet the needs of all social classes for talents due to political struggles, so the practice of private maintenance prevailed.

In the middle of the Warring States period, the princes' rivalry intensified, the style of raising scholars became more prosperous, and private learning flourished. Qin abolished a hundred schools of thought and emphasized the law alone, and his private learning was frustrated.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the practice of recuperation and recuperation, ** advocated private learning, private learning began to revivenation, and Mongolian learning has also appeared. In the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the four private schools of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and Xuan were huge in scale, which can be called the prosperity of private learning after the Warring States period.

During the Tang and Song dynasties, the official school was extremely strong, and the imperial examination system was also perfected, and the development of high- and middle-level private schools was inhibited, but the low-level Mongolian schools were developed.

The Mongolian studies of the Southern Song Dynasty have begun to differentiate into various forms such as village studies, Yixue, clan schools, and winter studies. In the Yuan Dynasty, private learning continued to flourish, and special private schools such as social studies and temple studies showed a prosperous scene.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, private learning showed different characteristics from the previous generations, and in addition to Mongolian learning, the development of high-level private learning also showed a prosperous trend. From the late Qing Dynasty to 1949, a new type of private learning with democratic colors and a free spirit began to emerge and developed greatly, marking that China's private learning had developed to a higher level.