严复教育救国思想的历史生成

The Historical Formation of Yan Fu's Thought of Saving the Nation through Education

作为近代中国较早对西方社会产生清醒认知的人之一,严复旗帜鲜明地提出了教育救国的思想主张。这一思想的形成既受到了严复自身的曲折教育经历所带来的中国传统文化与西方近代科学的双重影响,亦源于晚清内忧外患的社会环境所引发的亡国灭种的危机感,而清政府在甲午中日战争中的惨败则成为这一思想正式提出的导火索。

As one of the early modern Chinese people who had a clear understanding of Western society,Yan Fu put forward the idea of saving the country by education.The formation of this thought is not only influenced by the Chinese traditional culture and western modern science brought by Yan Fu's own tortuous educational experience,but also by the sense of crisis of national subjugation and species extermination caused by the social environment of internal and external troubles in the late Qing Dynasty.The tragic defeat of the Qing government in the Sino Japanese War of Jiawu became the fuse of this thought.