Professor WANG Deliang's Thought and Practice of Normal Education

Professor WANG Deliang was a famous educator in China, who has devoted all his life to the education of the party and the people, and made historic contributions to the reform and innovation of normal education in Guangdong Province and even the whole country. For the sake of the country and the people, WANG Deliang devoted himself to the rural transformation, with establishing the rural normal education and training the practical ability of the young generation; He had the courage to explore and reform the normal education with Chinese socialist characteristics, and expounded his views on the subject, goal and method of normal education. In addition, WANG Deliang's book "Cultivating a large number of qualified teachers-a talk on higher normal education" sums up his valuable experience in normal education for decades. Whether he believed in the theory of "saving the country through education" or was loyal to the party's socialist educational cause, he was determined to run an education satisfactory to the people. His thoughts and practice of normal education and his noble spirit of personality are worthy of our inheritance and development.