On Yan Fu's Educational Philosophy Of "smart Wisdom, Physical Strength, And Strong Morality"

When the Western powers opened the door of the ancient Chinese by their guns andcannons, Chinese society began to change from traditional to modern Modernization Process.The face of imperialist aggression, national salvation and national strength and prosperitybecame the two tasks of the modern Chinese people. In front of these two tasks, took a differentposition and attitude of the Chinese people choose to go a different way. Yan Fu as a reformist, toprofess reformist philosophy, advocates walking improved road, to rescue the country advocatethe use of education. He explored the educational thought and practice in Modern China, hasbecome the most important representative of modern Chinese education.Yan Fu with Darwin's theory of biological evolution to develop their own educationalthinking and asked the people standing on the height of the global linkages and the developmentof methods to look at education issues. He believes that education should be able to transformand inspire the Chinese people thinking. Yan Fu put forward a scientific and comprehensiveeducational thought of enlightening on national wisdom and drumming up physical strength ofthe people and renewing the folk morality. He depicts the active talent of the new asset shouldhave a knowledge system and moral and mental state. Has a distinctive character and historicalvalue of his educational thinking at the time.The ideas of Westernization “Chinese learning as the main Western knowledge as object” isbroken by Yan Fu's theory of education. The face of distress and the risk of people in China, YanFu pointed out that the Chinese education is not enough, he asked us not only to learn advancedscience and technology of the West, but also need to learn Western ideas and culture, andlearning can only use this method improve the quality of the people and promote socialdevelopment. Because of various limitations, his educational ideas still have limitations, but hisspirit still has the quality of today's science education.We should be from an educational point of enlightening on national wisdom and drummingup physical strength of the people and renewing the folk morality, to study the Yan Fu'seducation ideas to better promote the development of modern education. The study, includingaspects of enlightening on national wisdom and drumming up physical strength of the people andrenewing the folk morality, includes the formation process of thought, the ideological contentand historical value.