湖南时务学堂在不太长的时间里培养了一批具有新思想的知识人,为稍后开展的维新运动以及后来的一系列政治运动输送了人才。首批40名学生在此后10余年大半死于国事,为中国社会进步立下了不朽功勋。这是湖南时务学堂值得夸耀的成就。然而遗憾的是,湖南时务学堂并没有坚持办下去,随着梁启超等新势力的介入,学堂内部矛盾逐渐显现,与外部的冲突,特别是与湖南省内各种力量的冲突也日趋严重。过去的研究将这些冲突一概归并为新旧势力的冲突,以为湖南旧势力无法容忍梁启超等人的新思想。其实,平心静气重新检讨各派势力的言论与主张,我们不难发现时务学堂内外冲突可能并不像过去所描述那样,新者皆新,旧者全旧,而是别有原因在。 Hunan Shuxue Xueji trained a group of knowledgeable people with new ideas in the not too long period of time, sending talents to the later reform movement and the subsequent series of political campaigns. The first 40 students died in most of the country more than 10 years after that and made immortal contributions to the progress of Chinese society. This is the time to boast of Hunan Shuxue achievements. Unfortunately, however, Hunan Shuxue Xuebao did not insist on going there. With the intervention of new forces such as Liang Qichao, internal conflicts in the school gradually emerged. Conflicts with the outside, especially with various forces in Hunan Province, have also become increasingly serious. Past studies allied these conflicts into conflicts between the old and new forces, thinking that the old forces in Hunan could not tolerate the new ideas of Liang Qichao and others. In fact, it is not too difficult to find that the conflict inside and outside the school is not as new as the one described in the past. The new one is old and the old one is the old one, but for no other reason.