Abstract: Duriing his long-term education practice, Qian Weichang attached great importance to humanistic education, which puts in the first place the training of ideal personality, lays much stress on the cultivation of all-round students, who are supposed to be majors with general knowledge as well as learned in both arts and science, and makes a lot of sense for the improvement and reform of current education.

Key words: Qian Weichang, humanistic education, quality education, general education