中国著名爱国教育家张伯苓提出了“现代能力”教育思想。为了实现救国理想,促进中国现代化,他一生投身教育,致力于青年培养,主张要注重体育,锻炼健强之国民;注重科学,培养具有丰富现代知识之青年;注意精神修养,使青年具有远大志向、战胜困难的毅力、永远进取的精神和创造的特质,最终锻造成具有“现代能力”的学生。 Zhang Boling, a famous patriotic educator in China, put forward his educational thinking of “modern ability”. In order to realize the ideal of saving the nation and to promote China’s modernization, he devoted himself to education throughout his life and committed himself to the cultivation of youth. He advocated the emphasis on sports and the exercise of a healthy nationality. He stressed that science should focus on cultivating young people with rich modern knowledge. He should also pay attention to spiritual cultivation and make the youth ambitious , Overcome the difficulties of perseverance, eternal spirit and the creation of traits, and eventually forged into a “modern ability” students.