First of all, let me explain what a "little gentleman" is. At the last page of the article, Tao Xingzhi said: "For children, the best husband is not you and me, but the most progressive child in their own team." From his words, I understand that students are not only the recipients of knowledge, but also "Mr. Xiao" to impart knowledge to others. Every student can and has the obligation to participate in the exchange of knowledge and information and the inheritance of culture.
Mass education is to turn education and knowledge into fresh air, let universal light reach the public, and everyone can breathe freely according to their own needs, thus increasing the new vitality of the public. Tao Xingzhi compares education to air, so that everyone can breathe and share education, which also reflects Tao Xingzhi's thought that "life is education".
In the article, Tao Xingzhi also expounded the necessity of "mass education". "I think the fundamental significance of mass education is to teach people to spread knowledge widely to the public, instead of being stuck in the heads of a few people like money." This is the meaning of mass education. Tao Xingzhi hopes that everyone can receive education and break the concept that "education can only be owned by a few people".
Why should we carry out "little gentleman" education? In this paper, Tao Xingzhi discusses this issue from four aspects.
1. The most difficult thing to popularize in feudal education in China is women's education. Because in China, the concept of giving and receiving is deeply rooted in people's hearts, and the normal communication between boys and girls will also be criticized by others. Even if a woman teaches, the school environment is too difficult, which will scare her away. But if Mr. Xiao is promoted to a teaching post and Mr. Xiao teaches women what he has learned from the church, the problem of women's education will be solved.
The Chinese nation is aging, because society teaches people to get old and children to be young old people. In a word, education teaches people to get old, because when children go to school, adults teach them to be "young and mature" and instill in them the ideas of the older generation. (m.mrnum.Com) But it's different if you use Mr. Xiao to teach people. Adults learn from their children, and they get a kind of juvenile spirit invisibly, so that the Chinese nation can be revived by Mr. Xiao and get a new kind of juvenile spirit.
3. In China feudal society, education was occupied by a few people. However, if Mr. Xiao's teaching method is implemented to make "knowledge universal", this ancient concept can be broken, education and knowledge can become air, knowledge can become universal, and everyone has the opportunity to enjoy education. Moreover, the implementation of this teaching method is cost-free and economical.
In China, it is difficult for rural primary schools to keep in touch with students' families. Teachers feel isolated and schools feel monotonous. After the implementation of Mr. Xiao, Mr. Xiao is a mobile telephone pole, which organically combines the life education network and the cultural network, integrates the school and the family, and can exchange needed goods, thus strengthening the connection between students' families, schools and teachers. In the article, Tao Xingzhi also said that "the integration of school education and social education" means to gather the strength of social groups and mobilize them to shoulder the responsibility of teaching and educating people, that is, to spread education together. This view also includes the educational view of "society is school".
In the last paragraph of the article, Tao Xingzhi also said that people's education is to let the most progressive people in the people's ranks help people make extraordinary progress, and they will make progress together.
Generally speaking, this article contains such basic values and educational ideas as "knowledge is transmitted", "culture is shared", "educational democracy", "everyone becomes a talent" and "integration of teaching and learning", which is very necessary for social education in China at that time and now.