Wahid Hasyim has thought Islamic education renewal. Orientation Islamic education in the lifetime of Wahid Hasyim the middle of the twentieth century purely religious and towards ukhrowi. While Wahid Hasyim already initiated the reform of Islamic education oriented and pragmatic mundane ideal to akhiratan. This is among the significance of this paper need to be removed. Issues raised is how Wahid Hasyim thinking about human nature and position, the basic concepts of human morality and its relationship with the outside world, the purpose of education, curriculum, educational methods and learning resources? Whatever color the thinking of education? The approach in this paper is a socio-historical analysis using the tools of philosophy of education, linguistic analysis and the analysis of the concept. The result is that Wahid Hasyim have thought of educational reform (Islam) which is a very radical at the time, among others, 70 per cent of general knowledge and 30 percent of religious knowledge in the curriculum and educational purposes in addition to objectives religion too mundane namely life skills as an output pesantren education.