Gao Dayi's most important achievement is in the field of music education. Influenced by his mother's music education since childhood, he believes that music education is a right that everyone should enjoy. Between 1940 and 1950, the Gao Dayi teaching method that emerged in Hungary was not invented by Gao Dayi personally, but was jointly promoted by Gao Dayi, his students and his supporters. He once said: "Music should belong to everyone." In recognition of Gao Dayi's contribution to music education, the University of Budapest, the University of Oxford, the University of Toronto and other schools awarded him honorary doctorates.

In the process of collecting folk songs, he noticed some problems in music teaching and developed the Gao Dayi music teaching method, emphasizing that music education is indispensable in life and is innate to people. rights. At the same time, the teaching methods emphasize the significance of relative pitch, Hungarian pentatonic scale and teaching materials, and use sign language and rhythmic language as two tools to cultivate them.

Gao Dayi did not write down teaching methods. He only strongly proposed the philosophical concepts and future development directions of Hungarian music education. 1. Music education is necessary for the development of a complete person.

2. Music is the birthright of every child, not the privilege of some musical geniuses.

3. The human voice is the best teaching tool because it is free and accessible.

4. Children understand best from their experience, therefore, participation is the best way to learn music.

5. Only the best is suitable for children. What he means is that the highest quality musical material is folk songs sung in the mother tongue.

6. Singing must be unaccompanied, just like traditional folk singing.

7. Children’s music education depends on their instructors, so they must be the best musicians and educators.

8. Teaching music and singing in schools in a good way is a kind of enjoyment for children, not torture. It injects the enthusiasm for better music into their hearts. This enthusiasm will last throughout their lives.

9. It is a great thing to open the ears and hearts of millions of people to contact solemn music.

10. What the children learn here (school) will never be forgotten, and this will become the light and blood of their lives.

The teaching methods developed in Hungary are basically based on Gao Dayi's educational philosophy. 1. Relative pitch or first key solfa is fully developed in the traditional training of British chorus because it can indicate the function of pitch and harmony.

2. Most of Hungarian folk songs are in pentatonic scale. Therefore, early music training adopts pentatonic scale.

3. For carefully arranged musical ideas and materials, it comes not from the knowledge aspect, but from the meaning to children. From the above principles, in Gao Dayi's music teaching method, in order to obtain a set of methods, he uses the following two tools:

1. Sign language (handsign), established in the UK in 1986 by John Curwen.

2. Rhythm language basically comes from France.

In short, the main philosophy of Gao Dayi music education is to make students regard learning music as a kind of enjoyment rather than torture, and to inject the desire to love music into their lives.