很多时候，那些衡量指标都是不可量化的。现在来理解民国的教育，我们知道那个时候有战乱，有动荡，但是它的教育是相对成功的，因为那个时代教师得到了尊重，学校得到了尊重。那个时代的学校，大部分我们不能说全部都是由教育家来办的，而不是由行政人员来办的。

Most of the time,The indicator can be quantified.Now come to understand the republic of education,We know that time have chaos caused by war,Turmoil have,But its education is relatively successful,Because the time teacher gets the respect,The school has been respected.The era of the school,Most of us can't say all that are made by educators to do,Not the administrative personnel to do.

　　那个时候，北大校长这个位置和教育部长之间可以是来来回回的，蒋梦麟当过教育部长，也多次当过北大校长，但他不认为当了部长，再当校长有什么不好。蔡元培也当过教育总长，然后再去当北大校长。他们并不觉得校长和部长之间有巨大的落差，反而觉得北大校长这个位置可能更体面，北大校长，在他们心目中不是一个行政职务，在他们看来，这是一个教育家所担负的岗位。

At that time,Pku President this position and education minister can is between back and forth,JiangMengLin as education minister,Also many times when a pku President,But he does not think that when the minister,Then when the principal have what not good.CAI yuanpei also as a general education,And then to when pku President.They don't think President and minister has huge gap between,On the contrary feel pku President this position may be more decent,Pku President,In their heart is not an administrative position,In their eyes,This is an educator on the post.

　　我想到几个人。张伯苓，大家都知道他是南开大学的校长，但我更愿意说他是南开中学的校长。事实上，张伯苓办得最成功的学校可能还不是天津的南开学校，而是抗战烽火中的重庆南开中学。

I think of a few people.ZhangBoLing,Everyone knows that he is the President of nankai university,But I prefer to say he is nankai middle school principal.In fact,ZhangBoLing do the most successful schools may not tianjin nankai school,But the war of resistance in the beacon of nankai middle school in chongqing.

　　林砺儒，他是北京师范大学附属中学的校长，后来做了北京师范大学的校长，1949年以后做了教育部的副部长。我倒觉得他不应该去做副部长，他最适合的岗位是做校长，而不是部长。经亨颐，浙江第一师范学校校长，创办过春晖中学。还有赵君达、高凤山、周厚枢……后面这几个人现在都不大有名了，已经被人们给忘了，但是在他们学生的眼中曾经都是耀眼的明星，曾经是太阳，正是在他们手里，天津耀华中学、北京汇文中学、扬州中学，这些学校都是当时中国最好的中学。这样的人，在民国的时候，每个地方都有一批，正是他们这些大大小小的教育，家办出了一批很有魅力、很有影响的中小学。

LinLiRu,He is Beijing normal university high school principal,Then do the Beijing normal university President,1949 years later did the vice minister of ministry of education.I think he should not to do vice minister,He is the most suitable position is to be the principal,Not minister.The heng already,Zhejiang first normal school principal,Founded a school apartments.And JunDa zhao/GaoFengShan/ZhouHouShu……Behind these people are not famous,People have been forgotten,But in the eyes of their students have is dazzling star,Was once the sun,It is in their hands,Tianjin yao hua high school/Beijing analyses middle school/Yangzhou middle school,The school was the best Chinese middle school.Such people,In the republic of China time,Every place has a batch of,It is these greatly small education,Home run out of a group of very attractive/Very influential primary and secondary schools.

　　所以，我说一个民族的文明程度很大程度是由中小学所决定，而这些教育家就是这些学校后面的灵魂人物，他们不仅是掌舵的人，没有他们，学校就没有灵魂。

so,I said a nation's civilization is largely determined by the primary and secondary schools,And these educators is the school the back of the soul,They are not only the people at the helm,Without them,School is no soul.