From the perspective of evolution, Yan Fu believes that the main reason for the rise and fall of a country lies in its own situation, and it is useless to complain about others. The reason why China is weak is that people's intelligence is blocked, academic knowledge is sparse, and the overall strength of competition is lacking. The only effective way to save the country is to "enlighten the people", that is, to improve the quality of the people in an all-round way. He held a low-key evaluation of the political reform at that time, saying that "people's wisdom cannot be opened, or they will die." With the low quality of China people, even if we carry out reform, we can only get rid of one shortcoming and show another. After all, there is no hope. Therefore, "for today's plan, we should start with education urgently and update it step by step." Yan Fu is right to regard education as the foundation of a strong country, but it is difficult to reform and develop education unless political obstacles are removed.