民国初期，民族危机、乡村破产、教育和生活分离等问题突出，陶行知从教育救国角度出发，意识到劳动教育于国于教于人的价值，并从“劳力上劳心”角度对劳动教育的内涵进行了构建，提出了劳动教育的本质、目的、内容以及方法等。他尤为关心和重视劳动教育的实践向度，通过学校开设课程、打造劳动校园、举行运动会、编写诗歌等形式积极推广和普及劳动教育，并量化了劳动教育评价标准。陶行知对劳动教育的理论建构和实践探索对大中小学校充分认识劳动教育价值、因地制宜开展劳动教育以及健全劳动教育实践体系等方面提供了启发。

In the early years of the Republic of China, problems such as ethnic crisis, rural bankruptcy, and separation of education and life were prominent. Tao Xingzhi, from the perspective of saving the nation through education, realized the value of labor education and constructed the connotation of labor education from the angle of "adding mental labor to physical labor", and put forward the essence, purpose, content and methods of labor education. He pays special attention to the practical dimension of labor education, actively promotes and popularizes labor education by school offering courses, building labor campus, holding sports meetings and writing poems, and quantifies the evaluation criteria for labor education. Tao Xingzhi's theoretical construction and practical exploration of labor education provide inspiration for higher education, middle and primary schools to fully understand the value of labor education, develop labor education according to local conditions and improve the practice system of labor education.