What you have learned is not learned, and what you have learned is not learned. The way to improve is not only to learn from the method, but also to learn from the thought.
His conclusion is to adopt pragmatism and develop vocational education.
Huang Yanpei's definition of vocational education in "On the Implementation of Industrial Teaching" is: "All educational methods are designed to make everyone get the supply and fun of life while fulfilling their obligations to the masses. This kind of education is called vocational education. "
19 17 The Manifesto of China Vocational Education Society, published after the establishment of China Vocational Education Society, marked the formation of vocational education thought represented by Huang Yanpei.
Since then, Huang Yanpei's vocational education thought has been developed and matured.
Huang Yanpei's early vocational education thought reflects the needs of the industrial and commercial development of national capitalism and the reform of general education, focusing more on solving the problem of personal livelihood, and holds that the essence of vocational education includes three aspects: "preparation for making a living for individuals", "preparation for serving society for individuals" and "preparation for improving productivity for the world and the country".
Since the 1920s, Huang Yanpei summarized the purpose of vocational education as "to make the unemployed have jobs and the employed happy".
That is, it not only emphasizes personal livelihood, but also attaches importance to serving the society; Emphasize not only vocational skills training, but also professional ethics education; It emphasizes both one skill and all-round development.
More is to explore the inherent laws of vocational education.
Extended data:
In the middle and late 1920s, Huang Yanpei summed up the experience of vocational education development in recent ten years, and put forward the concept of "grand vocational educationism", holding that "vocational education should not only focus on vocational schools; Only from the education sector, vocational education cannot be developed; From the perspective of agriculture, industry and commerce, vocational education cannot be developed. "
In other words, to run vocational education well, we must contact and communicate with all educational circles and professional circles, participate in the activities and development of the whole society, and explore more the adaptation of the external environment of vocational education.
At this point, Huang Yanpei's vocational education thought is basically mature.
After entering the 1930s, the national crisis became more and more serious. Huang Yanpei actively devoted himself to saving the country, and the trend of vocational education gradually faded, but his vocational education thought continued to influence the vocational education practice in China in the following years.