Clarification of the Origin of the "Moral, Intellectual, Physical, Aesthetics and Labor Education"

The opposition of Labor Education as a part of Well-Rounded Education is based on the argument that it is includable and especially inhomogeneous to other parts. The inhomogeneity of Labor Education comes from the fact that Labor Education is not a reasonable part of "mental education" - a concept in Wang Guowei's article "On Education Aim". The framework given in that article is actually assembled from two ready-made frameworks of Japanese scholars, which contains many antinomies and mistakes. Early around 1900, the idea of "moral, intellectual and physical education" was already a general knowledge to Chinese. Cai Yuanpei proposed the concept of aesthetic education and made it the fourth part of education aim independent from Wang Guowei. Compared with Wang Guowei's framework, Cai Yuanpei's version of "moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic education" does not refer to "mental education" and contains no mistake. The disputation concerning incluability or inhomogeneity is invalid to Cai Yuanpei's framework. The historical status of "On Education Aim" is seriously overestimated. We should eliminate the resulting negative impact and uphold Labor education as the five part of well-rounded education confidently.