Sun Yat-Sen and Mao Zedong fully realized that the strategic position and the function of education.They both thought the education was always maintaining the national life.So they advocated that the educational opportunity should be equal and should implement equal education policy,and stressed that everyone served the country with the full scale development educational goal.They also advocated that carrying on the patriotic education,practical moral education,cultured education is of importance.They also took seriously consideration to teach students in accordance with their aptitude and the social practice,and advocated education method reform and so on.But their educational thought difference was also obvious.Sun Yat-Sen paid more attention to the upper formation literary intelligentsia men and the promising youth,while Mao Zedong paid more close attention to the poor workers and farmers.Sun Yat-Sen stressed Western natural sciences and military training,while Mao Zedong stressed the lower level poor populace could write,read and awoke their patriotic consciousness and the rebellious spirit,and so on.