Introduction to Yan characters

Yan, (1890 65438+1October 26th-1990 65438+1October 7th), originally from the Fifth Society of Zhongxing Village, sanjiang town, Bazhou District, Bazhong City, Sichuan Province, 19 13. Yan is a world-famous China civilian educator and rural builder. He believes that the catastrophe in China is the "four major diseases" of people's poverty, ignorance, weakness and selfishness, and advocates that people should be taught literacy first, and then the "four major education" of people's livelihood, literature, health and people should be implemented through running civilian schools.

Yan thought that the catastrophe in China was the "four diseases" of people's poverty, ignorance, weakness and private interests when he launched the mass education movement in his early days. He advocated teaching the people to read first, then implementing the "four major educations" of people's livelihood, literature, health and people, and cultivating knowledge, productivity, strength and unity to create "new people". He also advocated realizing politics and education in rural areas.

Since 1920, Yan has devoted himself to civilian education for more than 70 years. Known as "the father of the world civilian education movement", it is also known as "Southern Taobeiyan" with Mr. Tao Xingzhi. His civilian education practice in Dingxian County, Hebei Province from1920s to191930s left a lot of tangible and intangible property for Dingxian County and even Hebei Province.

He is the author of "The Essence of Civilian Education" and "The Mission of Rural Movement".

Yan was widely respected and won many honors because of his concern for the bottom of society and his action of going deep into rural areas to carry out rural education. However, in Yan's hometown, due to ideological reasons, people almost know nothing about Yan's contribution.

It was not until the AD1980s that people began to gradually understand Yan and his theory of civilian education. Some sociologists engaged in the study of rural issues, such as Wen Tiejun, continued the rural education movement interrupted by Yan, and established Yan Civilian Education and Rural Construction Committee, Yan Rural Construction College, Yan Research Association and other non-governmental organizations.

After Yan immigrated to the United States, he devoted himself to promoting his rural education concept to the world and served as a consultant to UNESCO. With his help, less developed countries such as the Philippines, Ghana and Colombia have also launched similar plans.

Generally speaking, the academic circles and the public are gradually deepening their understanding of Yan and his educational thoughts.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Yan