胡适与黄炎培都是活跃于20世纪中国的风云人物。黄炎培早年以同盟会员投身反清的辛亥革命,又因主持江苏新式教育事业名闻全国,为近代中国职业教育最早开拓者之一。胡适则因倡导白话文新文学运动“暴得大名”,其声名一时超于黄炎培。胡、黄两人的教育主张,都曾受杜威实验主义教育理论的影响,都看重平民教育、职 Hu Shih and Huang Yanpei are both people who are active in the 20th century China. In the early years, Huang Yanpei joined the members of the League of Undead in the Revolution of 1911 and was one of the pioneers of vocational education in modern China due to his fame throughout the country for hosting the new-style education in Jiangsu. Hu Shi was due to advocate vernacular new literary movement “storm name”, its reputation for a while over Huang Yanpei. Both Hu and Huang’s educational ideas have been influenced by Dewey’s experimental education theory and all attach importance to education for civilians.