Yan,1born in June, 890, is from Wushe Village, sanjiang town, Bazhou District, Bazhong City, Sichuan Province. 19 13 studied at St. Paul's College in Hong Kong (the predecessor of Hong Kong University) in June, and then transferred to Yale University in the United States to major in political economy.
Yan is a famous civilian educator and rural builder in China. He believes that China's four major diseases are poverty, ignorance, weakness and selfishness. He advocated teaching people to read first, and then implementing the "four major education" of people's livelihood, literature, health and people through running civilian schools. He is the author of "The Essence of Civilian Education" and "The Mission of Rural Movement".
Yan believes that farmers in China generally have four major ills: ignorance, poverty, weakness and selfishness; Correspondingly, civilian education is to improve farmers' knowledge, productivity, health and organizational ability, and to carry out various rural construction movements in the form of "literature and art education to save fools, people's livelihood education to save the poor, health education to save the weak, and civic education to save the private". He put forward the slogan of "scientific simplification, scientific farmers" with great foresight.
More and more educated young people go to the countryside. We should pay attention to the following points:
First, don't be impetuous. Never bring the impetuous wind of academia to the countryside, especially to prevent unrealistic localization. Many young people have accepted such things for many years, but these things may not really meet the needs of the countryside.
Second, the normal heart. Do ordinary things with a normal heart. China's rice farming has a history of more than 6400 years, and the traditional small-scale peasant economy is not something that some individuals want to change. A person's ability is limited, and changing the rural landscape cannot be completed in a day or two. Therefore, normality is very important.
Remember these two points, educated youth will have real gains when they go to the countryside. For farmers, what we say is: Only by changing ourselves can we become the masters of our hometown. Similarly, for the educated youth who go to the countryside, we also want to say: Only by changing ourselves can we build a new countryside.
The evolution of rural society is a slow and objective process, and the problem of China needs to be solved by China himself according to the national conditions of China. The issue of "agriculture, countryside and farmers" is not a philosophical debate. Only by going out of the study and doing down-to-earth investigation and research can we talk about prescribing.