Sanjiang and Liangjiang Normal Schools were established from 1902 to 1912, which lasted nearly ten years. Especially after Li Ruiqing took charge of school affairs, he went to Japan to inspect education. After returning to China, he did many practical things for the schools, making Liangjiang Normal School a great success.

The scale has been greatly developed, with more than 1,000 students on campus.

Li Ruiqing’s educational mission is: to regard education as life, school as family, and students as children, and this will always be the case.

He personally wrote the school motto: "Chew the roots of vegetables and accomplish great things." Under his leadership, the school attached great importance to science, Chinese studies, and art.

There are more than 1 acres and dozens of cattle for field experiments by agricultural and natural history students; studios, workshops and other equipment are set up for the use of drawing and handicraft students; instruments, medicines and laboratories are purchased for the experiments of physical and chemical students.

The examination scores of the students in this school are the highest among the colleges and universities in Jiangnan.

Cultivated the first batch of outstanding primary and secondary school teachers for the three provinces of Jiangnan.

The well-known biologist Bingzhi, Chinese masters Hu Xiaoshi and Chen Zhongfan were among the outstanding early graduates of Liangjiang Normal School.

The Creation of Nanjing Normal School In 1912, after Sun Yat-sen became the interim president, he elected the educator Cai Yuanpei as the director-general of education of the interim government.

After he took office, he put forward a series of proposals for reforming education and promulgated many educational laws.

Jia Fengzhen, principal of Jiangsu Provincial Second Normal School, and others jointly submitted a letter to the Ministry of Education and the Provincial Office, suggesting that a higher normal school should be established in Nanjing as soon as possible to train secondary school teachers.

According to "Jiangsu Inspector Han Guojun appointed Jiang Qian (former director of the Jiangsu Education Department) to prepare the Nanjing Higher Normal School Documents as the principal" on August 30, 1914: "After taking office, the Liangjiang Excellent Normal School campus will be inspected in detail.

, can part of it be repaired so that it can be used for the current time? "Make sure that the preparations are complete for this school year so that the school can be opened on a regular basis."

Soon, South Korea Jun was transferred to Anhui, but Jiang Qian did not arrive.

After taking up the post as Jiangsu's successor, Qi Yaolin, reiterated that her predecessor had made plans, and with the approval of the Ministry of Education, Jiang Qian was officially appointed as the principal and ordered him to quickly go to the province to prepare everything so that the school could start as scheduled.

In the "Article of Jiangsu Inspector Qi Yaolin and Jiang Qian's Preparation for the Opening of the School", the educational purpose of Nanjing Higher Normal School is further clarified: "The Higher Normal School trains secondary school teachers on the one hand, and promotes the path to further education for secondary school students on the other, which is related to the education of the whole province.

Fundamental." Jiang Qiansui arrived in Ningxia on January 17, and on the 18th he went to the original Liangjiang Normal School to inspect the school building and plan for the renovation of classrooms. The Preparatory Office of Nanjing Normal University was located in the Provincial Council.

On January 29, 1915, it moved to the former site of Liangjiang Normal School.

After Jiang Qian took office, he hired Guo Bingwen, a doctor from the United States, to come to the school as the academic director, and Chen Rong, a bachelor of education from the United States, as the director of school supervision.

Yuan Xitao, a former inspector of the Ministry of Education, Huang Yanpei, vice president of the Provincial Education Association, and Shen Enfu, president of the Provincial Education Association, were also hired as reviewers to brainstorm ideas for the establishment of Nanjing Normal University and discuss school running matters.

Thanks to the planning of President Jiang Qian and the efforts of all the preparatory staff, the necessary repairs and additions to Nanjing Normal University were completed in the summer of 1915, and teachers were hired successively.

And drafted the "Nanjing Higher Normal School Brochure" and "Nanjing Higher Normal School Recruitment Brochure".

So the recruitment was open on August 11, 1915.

There are 534 students applying for the exam, from Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Sichuan, Guizhou and other provinces, among which Jiangsu has the largest number of candidates.

The first enrollment *** admitted 126 people, and 110 people actually arrived.

Classes will begin on September 10th, and an opening ceremony will be held on September 18th. Governor Qi Yaolin and other local officials will be invited to the school to participate in the ceremony.

At this point, Nanjing Normal University was officially established.

By 1921, there were 102 teachers at Nanjing Normal University, including 55 professors and 3 foreign professors. Professors accounted for 56.8% of the total teachers. More than 30 of the teachers had studied abroad in China and abroad.

Among them are many well-known professors who have been engaged in teacher education for a long time, such as Tao Xingzhi, Chen Heqin, Chen Zhongfan, Xu Zeling (Yangqiu), Zhang Shiyi, etc.

On April 7, 1920, President Guo Bingwen proposed the proposal to establish a national university on the site of Nanyang Normal University and the former site of the Nanyang Encouragement Association at the Nanyang Normal University School Council meeting, which was unanimously approved by the participants.

Preparations began immediately.

On December 7, the State Council approved the establishment of National Southeast University in Nanjing.

On December 15, the Preparatory Office of Southeast University was officially established.

From August 24 to 26, 1921, Southeast University and Nanjing Normal University enrolled students at the same time. Southeast University enrolled 130 freshmen and Nanjing Normal University enrolled 119 freshmen.

Nanjing Normal University stopped enrolling students in 1922, and its last batch of 17 students graduated in 1926.

The Education Department of Southeast University was established on the basis of the education major and physical education major of Nanjing Normal University. It initially established three departments of education, psychology, and physical education. In 1924, the Department of Rural Education was added to train research talents, cultivate teachers and education

The aim is to educate administrative staff and the duration of the course is four years.

The director of the Education Department was first Tao Xingzhi, and was succeeded by Xu Zeling (Yangqiu) after 1923; the director of the Education Department was concurrently served by Xu Zeling; the director of the Department of Psychology was Professor Lu Zhiwei; and the director of the Department of Physical Education was American Professor Rao Bingshi.

There are 34 teachers in all subjects, including 13 who have received doctorate and master's degrees from China and abroad, 17 domestic professors and 2 foreign professors. The teaching staff is very strong.

Well-known professors include Xu Zeling, Chen Heqin, Tao Xingzhi, Lu Zhiwei, Zheng Zonghai, Meng Xiancheng, etc.