陶行知先生对大众教育的倡导和实践,为近代中国开辟了一条人民教育的新路线。他怀着强烈的人民意识和民主精神,把教育对象由过去的少数统治者及其子弟转到劳动人民及其子弟上,以实现教育为人民大众服务的方向和宗旨,成为新中国教育思想产生与发展的重要财富。正是在这种民主教育思想的影响下,新中国的基础教育走上了民主教育的发展之路。作为在这样一个时代 Mr. Tao Xingzhi’s advocacy and practice of mass education has opened up a new line of education for the people in modern China. With a strong sense of the people and democracy, he shifted the target of education to the working people and their children from the minority rulers and their children in the past so as to realize the direction and purpose of education in serving the public and to become the generation of the educational thinking in new China With the development of important wealth. It is under the influence of this democratic educational thought that the basic education in new China has embarked on the road of democratic education. As in such an era