“New schooling is a course, the place humans can discover and stroll ahead….It is usually an adventure.” —Zhu Yongxin

A pioneering chief of recent schooling in China, Professor Zhu Yongxin has watched the seeds of his academic dream take root and flourish all around the state. during this precious selection of essays, he deals his own, year-by-year reflections at the notable good fortune of latest schooling, beginning with its advent in 2002 via its quick progress throughout provinces, to its ongoing imaginative and prescient for China’s destiny. The booklet includes:

* An inspiring chronology of latest Education’s achievements, from 2002 to the present

* particular activities that educators can do to supply new instruments for our academics, new options for our colleges, and new possibilities for our students

* a party of the recent schooling journey—and the students, educators, and leaders who're making it happen

In the 12 months 2000, Professor Zhu Yongxin released his landmark booklet, My imaginative and prescient on Education—and a brand new imaginative and prescient of schooling was once born. In 2002, a college in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China quietly brought New schooling into their school rooms and curriculum. via 2014, New schooling had taken root in additional than two-thousand colleges in twenty-nine provinces, turning into China’s biggest nongovernmental academic experiment.

In this brilliantly saw number of essays, Yongxin takes readers on a desirable trip via time, mapping out the fast progress and magnificent good fortune of latest schooling in China—year by means of 12 months, instructor by way of instructor, pupil by way of student.

Essays include:

* an individual Has to shine the celebrities (2002-2003)

* Make a Pot of Stone Soup (2004-2005)

* Write the Legends of existence (2006-2007)

* think in Time, think in Seeds (2008-2009

* Take activities and you'll have earnings; Insist and there'll be Miracles (2010-2011)

* The party Is at the highway (2012-2013)

Dedicated to the visionary academics and leaders who've labored diligently and passionately to enhance our faculties and supply new possibilities for college students, those insightful first-hand bills offer a useful timeline of educational achievements that may motivate educators for years yet to come. those are the tales of latest schooling in action—and those are the cutting edge thinkers and doers who're development an exhilarating new destiny for China.

“Our colleagues have proven their top self at the street to New Education,” Yongxin writes. “I recognize it’s an unending trip, yet we're consistently heading for a brighter tomorrow.”

Zhu Yongxin is a member of the nationwide People’s Congress (NPC) status Committee, vp of the China organization for selling Democracy (CAPD), and vice chairman of chinese language Society of schooling (CSE). He additionally serves as a professor and PhD manager at Soochow University.

A sponsor of the hot schooling test in China, Professor Zhu has gained a number of awards for his influential paintings, together with “60 nice individuals in China’s schooling of 60 years” (2009), “30th Anniversary of Reform and beginning Up: individual of the yr in China’s schooling zone” (2008), “Top 10 information Figures in China’s Reform” (2007), and “Top 10 Elites in China’s schooling” (2006).

Professor Zhu has released greater than four hundred articles on schooling either at domestic and in another country, and released over 30 books as well.