陈梓北先生是山东黄县人,1905年出生,现年83岁,是我国研究小学教材教法的专家。陈先生幼年家贫,通过勤工俭学才上完了中学和大学。1930年毕业于北京师大教育系,后留学于日本东京帝国大学(今东京大学)文学部大学院(研究生院)。他兴趣广泛,对祖国十分热爱。曾一度热衷于创作歌曲,宣传抗日救亡运动,反对蒋介石打内战。为此,他曾于1942年被捕入狱,受到过国民党反动派的迫害。 Mr. Chen Zibei, a native of Huang County, Shandong Province, was born in 1905 and is 83 years old. He is an expert in teaching materials and methods of primary schools in China. Mr. Chen childhood poverty, through work-study program finished high school and university. In 1930 graduated from the Beijing Normal University Department of Education, after studying in Tokyo Imperial University (now Tokyo University) Department of Literature (Graduate School). He has a wide range of interests and is very loving to the motherland. Once keen to create songs, propaganda anti-Japanese national salvation movement, opposed Chiang Kai-shek to fight the civil war. For this reason, he was arrested in 1942 and persecuted by the Kuomintang reactionaries.