废科举：近代著名思想家的反思

The Reflection of Famous Modern Thinker’s to the Chinese Imperial Examination Abolishment

晚清时期科举制度的废除离不开一批著名思想家持续不断地批判。然而，1905年科举制骤废后，那些曾激烈抨击过科举制度的思想家对新的社会问题，又开始反思科举制度，甚至一定度上为科举制度”正名”。这一历史现象在以往的近代教育史研究中很少提及，本文即试图挖掘几位主要著名思想家在科举制度废除后对科举制度认识变化的言论，分析这些言论出现的原因，并对这一历史现象为何甚少引起后人关注进行了思考。

The abolishment of the Chinese Imperial Examination system was attributed to many famous thinker’s critics during the Late Qing Dynasty. But they began to rethink the system after its abolishment since 1905. Because they has to face some new social problems based on the abolishment of it. However， this kind of historic phenomenon was seldom mentioned in the research field of Chinese modern educational history. This paper tries to dig out the talk of the famous thinkers after the abolishment of the system， and analyze the reasons of the phenomenon. In the end， the authors are thinking about such a question：why this kind of interesting historic phenomenon seldom arouse our attention？