袁征博士的《宋代教育》(广东高教出版社出版)是一部扎实、深刻而可读性很强的佳作。一个与众不同的显著特点是,此书并非泛泛通论宋代教育,而是抓住了学校课程和教材、学生的考试和升级、教职员的选任这三个最重要的基本制度,进行深入的研究,显示出作者求实钻研的态度和独到的眼光。如此重要的教育制度的论题,过去竟没有人作过专门研究,甚至没有注意!作者将宋代教育的研究大大推进了一步,其研究方法和角度的创新,为其他断代教育史提供了良好的借鉴。本书的另一特色是以点带面。 Dr. Yuan Zheng’s “Song Education” (Guangdong Higher Education Press) is a solid, profound and highly readable masterpiece. A distinctive distinguishing feature is that this book does not generalize on the education of the Song Dynasty. Instead, it grasps the three most important basic systems of school curricula and teaching materials, examinations and upgrades of students, and the selection of faculty members for further research, Showing the author realistic study attitude and unique vision. Such an important issue of the educational system, no one actually made a special study in the past, did not even pay attention to the author of the Song Dynasty education research has taken a big step forward, its research methods and perspectives for the other education history provides a good reference . Another feature of this book is point-by-point.