林汉达先生(1900—1972)是我的同道、同事和难友。他是一位教育家、出版家和语文现代化的研究者。他一生做了许多工作,例如向传统教育挑战、推进扫盲工作、研究拼音文字、编写历史故事、提倡成语通俗化等等。向传统教育挑战1941年,林先生出版他的教育理论代表作《向传统教育挑战》,一方面有批判地引进西方的教育学 Mr. Lin Han Da (1900-1972) is my fellow, colleague and friend. He is an educator, publisher, and modernist in Chinese. Much has been done in his life, such as challenging traditional education, promoting literacy, studying phonetic transcriptions, writing historical stories, popularizing idioms, and more. Challenge to Traditional Education In 1941, Mr. Lin published his Masterpiece of Educational Theory “Challenge to Traditional Education”, on the one hand, criticized the introduction of Western pedagogy