中国有悠久的雕塑传统并有大量的优秀作品流传至今,可是在今天绝大多数美院的雕塑教学中,有建立在民族雕塑传统基础上的教学体系吗?有建立本民族雕塑教学体系的自觉意识吗?似乎没有。应该承认,我们过去几千年雕塑艺术在师承传授方面未曾有过规模化、系统化的学院式教学体制,有很多东西都停留在“经验”状态,还没有形成较为完整系统的理论,虽有一些造型的“口诀”和表现程式,但要进行规模化的现代雕塑教学是远远不够的。也正因为如此,本世纪初才有一批批有志者远涉重洋去学习西方雕塑艺术,研究和引进西方的雕塑教学模式,他们对我国初创期现代雕塑教学的贡献是应该予以肯定的。但这只是过程而不是目的,我们的目的还是应该放在发展本民族雕塑教学体系方面。但是至今我们在这个问题上有清醒、自觉的认识吗? China has a long tradition of sculpture and a large number of outstanding works have been handed down since then. However, most sculpture teaching in the Academy of Fine Arts today has a teaching system based on the tradition of national sculpture. Consciousness of establishing a national sculpture teaching system Consciousness? It does not seem. It should be acknowledged that in the past few thousand years we had never had a large-scale and systematic college-based teaching system in the teaching of sculpture. There are many things that remain in the state of “experience” and have not yet formed a relatively complete and systematic theory. Although there are some Modeling “formulas” and performance programs, but to carry out large-scale modern sculpture teaching is not enough. Precisely because of this, there were a group of people who aspired to study Western sculpture art far away from the oceans at the beginning of this century, studying and introducing western sculpture teaching models, and their contribution to the modern sculpture teaching in our country’s early stage should be affirmed. But this is a process, not an end, and our goal should be to develop the teaching system of our national sculpture. But so far we have a clear, conscious awareness of this issue?