On Comparative Study Between Pestalozzi And Yan Yangchu's Theory And Practice Concerning The Rural Area Education

Pestalozzi (Johann.Heinrich.Pestalozzi1746—1827)was a great rural educationist and theorist in the history of Swiss. Yan Yangchu (1893—1990) was a great educationist and theorist in the history of our country. Their area education thoughts and practice have had a great influence on the rural education of their own countries and even the world. They had many similar aspects in their theory and practice. However, they also had differences.Through comparing the theory and practice rural education learning of Pestalozzi and Yan Yangchu's,this article analyzes some problems involved in changing concept of rural education, rural education called up sincere and responsibility,in order to benefit our rural education reform. There are four parts in this study.The first part of the paper probes into the connotation of the conceptions in it, such as''rural area education",''the poor farmers' education";''Mass education''.The second part of the paper summarized their basic connotations of the theory and practical features of rural area education.On this basis, The third part of the paper analyzes the similarities and differences between these two theories and practice of rural area education. Both of them pay attention to rural area education,similar origins of theory, similar education role, their rural area experiment aim shows no difference, both of them have noble spirit, these are their common features. However, their differences are also obvious in some aspects, for example, subjects of education contents, the methods of raising money for rural area education, executor of rural area education experiment, the significance of rural area education experiment. What we should pay special attention to is the writer didn't analyze the reason in the routine thinking by polity, economy, culture and experience as a part. but just combine these reasons into this article.To draw lessons is the final aim of comparison,so the last part discussed the significance of Pestalozzi's and Yan Yangchu's theory and practical rural area education to the present rural area education reform.