天津南开中学是周恩来同志中学时代的母校。这所学校是一九○四年建立的私立学校。在中日甲午战争后,它的创办人看到民族垂危,国家沦于半殖民地的地位,想振奋民族,挽救国难,于是抱着“教育救国”的思想办了这所学校。那时,南开中学学习欧美一些学校的办学方法,注重数理化等自然科学,注重外语和体育,为了扩大学生的知识领域,培养办事能力,也注意开展学术、文体等各种课外活动。由于学校办得较好,毕业生质量较高,在社会上享有一定声誉。周恩来同志于一九一三年暑假,自沈阳东关模范学堂毕业,考入南开中 Nankai Middle School in Tianjin was the alma mater of Comrade Zhou Enlai’s middle school. This school was founded in 1904 as a private school. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the founder of this school saw that the nation was dying. The country was reduced to a semi-colonial state and wanted to make the nation prosperous and save the country’s national tragedy. Therefore, the school was run with the idea of ​​“saving the nation through education”. At that time, Nankai Middle School studied the methods of running schools in some schools in Europe and the United States, focusing on the physical sciences such as physics and physics, focusing on foreign languages ​​and sports. In order to expand students’ knowledge and cultivate their ability to do business, Nankai Middle School also paid attention to various extracurricular activities such as academic and sports activities. As the schools run well, the quality of graduates is high and they enjoy a certain reputation in the community. Comrade Zhou Enlai in the summer of 1913, graduated from Model School of Shenyang East Gate, admitted to Nankai