Aesthetic Education and its Practical Significance in CAI Yuanpei's "Five Educations Simultaneously"

Abstract

In 1912, Mr. CAI Yuanpei put forward the educational thought of "five education at the same time" in his "Opinions on Educational Policy", which focuses on the comprehensive and harmonious development of morality, intelligence, physique and beauty, which conforms to the changes of Chinese society and the trend of world development at that time, and has become the first educational guiding ideology in China's modern history. This paper takes the aesthetic education in the educational thought of "five education simultaneously" proposed by Mr. CAI Yuanpei as the research starting point, focuses on the definition, content and implementation path of contemporary "aesthetic education", and combined with the basic curriculum currently carried out in China's middle and high schools, to study and discuss its positive impact and shortcomings in practical implementation.