陶行知（1891——1946）,伟大的人民教育家、社会活动家、爱国者。　　

他在国家多难、民族危亡之秋，以“捧着一颗心来，不带半根草去”的赤子之忱，为中华民族谋取解放，为中国教育探寻新路，创办晓庄师范学校、山海工学团、育才学校、社会大学等新型学校。他所创立的“生活即教育”“社会即学校”“教学做合一”的生活教育学说，顺应中国和世界教育发展趋势，符合教育的内在规律，对于今天乃至未来中国和世界教育改革与发展，仍有着重要的理论价值与强烈的现实意义。

陶行知一生投身于中国革命和教育事业，为民族的解放和人民大众的教育鞠躬尽瘁，死而后已。让我们以陶行知先生为楷模，为办好人民满意的教育作贡献，实现中华民族伟大复兴的“中国梦”。

本馆地处陶行知当年创办的山海工学团区域——上海宝山大场地区。始建于1986年，2002年迁建于大场南部的大华行知公园内。

Forewords

Tao Xingzhi (1891-1946), a great educator of the people, social activist and patriot in modern China.

At the critical juncture of life and death of Chinese nation, Tao, with the spirit of “I have come here with a whole heart (for work), and I'll leave not taking half a piece of grass(for reward)”, devoted himself unselfishly to the struggle for Chinese national emancipation，seeking new approaches to Chinese education, during the course of which Tao founded several modern schools such as Xiaozhuang Normal School，Shanhai Work-Study Union, Yucai School，and the Social University. His ideological and theoretical system of “life is education”, “society is school” and “the unity of teaching, learning and doing” conforms to the development of China's educational trend and that of the world, accords with the inherent law of education, and has great theoretical value and profound significance on the educational reform and development of China as well as the world at present and in the future.

Tao devoted himself to the cause of Chinese revolution and education, kept loyal to the national salvation and the mass education to the last. We should learn from Tao and sacrifice ourselves for promoting education to the commoner's satisfaction.

This memorial museum is located in Dachang area, Baoshan county of Shanghai where Tao established the Shanhai Work-Study Union. It was first founded in 1986 and relocated to Xingzhi Park of Dahua in the south of Dachang in 2002.