南通高等师范学校简史（A brief history of Nantong Normal College）.docVIP

南通高等师范学校简史（A brief history of Nantong Normal College） In 1840 after the outbreak of the Opium War, China has gradually reduced to a semi colonial and semi feudal society, increasingly serious domestic trouble and foreign invasion. Especially after the Sino Japanese War of 1894, the Western powers were scrambling to divide the sphere of influence and plunder the land in China. The fate of the state and the nation reached a critical juncture in the crisis. At this time, some advanced intellectuals issued the call of saving the nation by industry and saving the nation by education. They began to set up industry and advocated and created new education. In this historical tide, Nantong local to modern famous industrialist, educator Zhang Jian and his brother Zhang, Gu Zhongyi, Liang Cha and Xiaoxiong Shen Shusheng as the representative of the liberal and progressive gentry clearly recognize Chinese survive of the law, only the industry, education, industry, education and the, so in twentieth Century the first two or thirty years, they advocate the place in Nantong and the construction of a normal education, including basic education, occupation education, special education and higher education, more complete modern school education system. They first started teacher education, because they deeply realized that to educate and popularize the people without seeking the teacher is without guidance. Therefore, from the beginning of the primary school, especially from the beginning of normal school, normal is the mother of education. Nantong normal school Twenty-eight years Guangxu (1902) the first month, Zhang Jian to the Qing governor Jiang Liu Kunyi started public normal school in Nantong, but his proposal was attacked by some bureaucratic obstruction and opposition, so he called the van and Sha Yuanbing discussed the local gentry, decided to do from the normal school. In March, Zhang Jian in Tongzhou (now Nantong) south east of the ruined temple thousand basis to do large