陶行知提倡“手脑并用”,他批评旧传统教育是“残废教育”。他认为,旧教育是教用脑的人不用手,教用手的人不用脑。用脑者,因为不用手,生了“软手软脚病”,因此失去了实际操练,变成个呆脑。用手者,因不用脑,生了“笨头笨脑病”,因此失去了脑的指挥,只剩下一双粗手。为了培养手脑 Tao Xingzhi advocated “hand and brain use.” He criticized old traditional education as “disabled education.” He believes that the old education is to teach people who do not use the brain, and people who teach their hands do not use their brains. With the brain, because he did not use his hands, he developed a “soft-soft foot disease,” and he lost his practice and became a brainless person. As for the hand, because they do not use their brains, they have a “stupid brain disease” and therefore lose their command of the brain, leaving only a pair of rough hands. In order to cultivate the hand brain