陶行知的乡村教育思想及启示

Tao Xingzhi's Village Educational Thoughts and Its Enlightenment

陶行知是我国现代伟大的教育家,也是民国时期乡村教育的主要提倡者和实践者,是现代中国最早注意农民问题的教育家之一。早在民国时期他不仅认识到中国农村问题的严重性,看到了中国农村教育的种种弊端,而且还有针对性地提出了种种出路。他主张发展“生利”的乡村教育,要建设中国乡村的活教育。陶行知的乡村教育思想对当代问题重重的农村教育依然具有很大的借鉴意义,我们从中可以得到一些启示。

Tao Xingzhi is a great modern educationist of our country, who is also the leading advocator and the practitioner of village education in Ming dynasty and is one of the earliest educationists who pay attention to the peasant problems in modern China. In Ming dynasty, he had not only known the serious situation and defects of China rural problem, but also had pointed out many countermeasures. He thought that education is for nothing but live. He advocated to develop ＂producing benefit＂ education in villages, built live education of Chinese villages. Tao Xingzhi＇s village educational thoughts which is regarded as a reference to the village education with so many problems has important significant, we can draw some enlightenments from it.