综析余家菊在中国近代教育史上的贡献

Comprehensive Analysis of Yu Jiaju's Contributions in History of Chinese Modern Education

余家菊在中国近代教育史上贡献甚多,其留世文字中有关教育论述达数百万言,且其论评的领域颇为广泛。在教育主权的维护上,他率先提出"收回教育权",推动了近代中国对教会教育的接收;在教育领地的开拓上,他最早呼吁重视乡村教育,促成了近代乡村教育思潮的形成和乡村教育运动的兴起;在教育发展的层级上,他极为注重义务教育,全面阐析了在以农为主贫穷落后的中国应该如何实现真正的教育普及。

Yu Jiaju made great contributions in history of Chinese education and his educational expositions on record consisted of millions of characters covering an extremely widerange. In the respect of defending educational sovereignty which promoted modern China to take over Christian schools set up in China, and in the respect of opening up the educational territory, he was the first to appeal for attaching importance to the countryside education, which helped to bring about the formation of the modern countryside educational thought and the rise of the countryside education movement. In the respect of educational development, he paid much attention to compulsory education, and overall elaborated how to make education really popularized in a poor and backward China pedominated by agriculture.