Zhou Baoru’s Rural Education Theory And Contemporary Significance

At the beginning of the last century, our country suffered powers of oppression, the people’s livelihood were afflicted, especially in rural areas. With rural economy destroyed,and rural education was miserably. The patriots actively sought the road of national salvation. In their opinion, to develop China, develop education first, to save China, save the education first. As one of the rural educators who intend to seek a way to save our country, Zhou Baoru wanted to find a way from education.As a college professor,Zhou Baoru tried his best to carry out rural education in the countryside, Strengthen the contact of the rural education with colleges and universities,promote education theory research and practical application, he had set an example for the educators in colleges and universities.He stressed that education is the key to save China,and because rural education was the weakness of China education, the popularization of rural education was emergency. Because it was that Chinese rural areas under the devastation of war, the poor rural education was broken mostly, farmers was still with strong feudal consciousness. So Zhou Baoru went into rural areas, and researched. Zhou Baoru definited the purpose, method and content of rural education,and teachers’ importance. On the basis of his theory of Rural Education, LongYandong Rural education Experimental Zone was established by him and other rural educators. In this rural, He practiced his theory of Rural Education.And now we are on the way of new rural construction in our country, under the national policy support,rural various conditions are improved by leaps and bounds.Farmer’s ideological emancipation, the education consciousness is very strong with higher request of higher culture. But problems are more and more in the process of rural education development. How to develop rural education becomes the key to develop rural construction, We can learn from Zhou Baoru’s theory and practice. In order to cultivate good rural teachers, higher education workers should focus on rural education, the education of colleges and universities should improve educational fairness, enhancenormal students’ practical ability and specialty.