Abstract: Mr.Cai Yuanpei,a famous educator in the modern educational history of our country,was a pioneer and model in the modern educational reform.The education thought,put forward by him,that sports came first before creating a full personality,was progressive in the early 20th century.It was an extension of Marxism's educational thought about the human all-round development and would play a guiding role in the"Health First"and the Quality Education Reform being carried out in today's schools.