1. Cai Yuanpei served as the president of Peking University from 1916 to 1927, innovating the "academic" and "liberal" style of Peking University; from 1920 to 1930, Cai Yuanpei also served as the president of the Sino-French University. He participated in the struggle against the Qing imperial system in his early years. In the early years of the Republic of China, he presided over the formulation of the first decree on higher education in modern China, the "University Order." During the Northern Expedition, after the Nationalist government established its capital in Nanjing, he chaired the Educational Administration Committee, prepared the establishment of the University of the Republic of China and the Academia Sinica, and led the reform of the education and academic system. In 1927, he participated in launching the "Movement to Protect the Country and Save the Party", believing that the Party should be purged but opposed killing. From 1928 to 1940, he served as the president of Academia Sinica, implementing his views on academic research. Cai Yuanpei went to Germany and France several times to study and investigate, studying philosophy, literature, aesthetics, psychology and cultural history, which laid an ideological and theoretical foundation for his commitment to reforming feudal education.
2. Tao Xingzhi was born in Shexian County, Anhui Province. He graduated from the Literature Department of Jinling University (merged into Nanjing University in 1952). He is an educator and thinker of the Chinese people, a great democratic fighter, a patriot, and a leader of the Chinese people. One of the main leaders of the National Salvation Association and the China Democratic League. He once served as the Academic Director of Nanjing Normal University and the Director-General of the China Education Improvement Society. He successively founded Xiaozhuang School, Life Education Club, Shanhai Engineering Group, Yucai School and Social University. He put forward three major propositions: "Life is education," "Society is school," and "Teaching and doing are integrated." Life education theory is the theoretical core of Tao Xingzhi's educational thoughts. His works include: "China's Educational Reform", "Records of Bell Ringing in Ancient Temples", "Zhaifu's Free Talk", "Xingzhi's Letters", and "Xingzhi's Poetry Collection".
3. Zhu Kezhen was a modern Chinese meteorologist, geographer, and educator. The founder of modern Chinese geography and meteorology. In 1910, Zhu Kezhen studied in the United States at public expense and received a doctorate from Harvard University in 1918. In the autumn of 1920, he applied for Nanjing Normal University. In 1934, Zhu Kezhen, Weng Wenhao and Zhang Qiyun jointly founded the Chinese Geographical Society. In April 1936, he served as the president of Zhejiang University, which lasted for 13 years. He has conducted in-depth research on the formation, characteristics, divisions and changes of China's climate, as well as geography and the history of natural sciences. Zhu Kezhen is the founder of Chinese phenology.
4. Xia Chuzun is a famous Chinese writer, educator and publisher. In his early years, he studied at Shanghai Chinese and Western Academy and Shaoxing Prefecture School (now Shaoxing No. 1 Middle School). In 1905, he went to Japan to study. In 1907, he dropped out of school and returned to China, where he began his teaching and editing career. He became a scholar at the age of 16 and went to Japan to study in 1905. In 1908, he was appointed as an interpreting assistant at Zhejiang Normal University. He participated with Mr. Lu Xun and others in the "Papaya Campaign" against the restoration of Confucianism. In Zhejiang No.1 Normal University, he actively supported the principal Jing Hengyi's promotion of new culture and was known as the "Four King Kongs". one. After the "First Teacher Trend", he left the First Normal University and taught successively at Hunan First Normal University and Chunhui Middle School. He worked with Mao Zedong and served as a Chinese teacher and director of the publishing department at Chunhui Middle School, and translated it into "The Education of Love".
5. Ma Junwu is a veteran figure of the Kuomintang. In 1924, Ma Junwu retired from politics and gradually devoted his energy to education. He successively served as the president of Daxia University, Beijing University of Technology, China Public School, and National Guangxi University. Ma Junwu established his position in the history of modern education in China with his ideas of transforming China's feudal education system and promoting modern higher education. He is as famous as Cai Yuanpei, who advocates "freedom of thought and inclusiveness", and is known as "Northern Cai and Southern Ma" reputation.