Rural education refers to various formal or informal educational activities carried out in rural areas, aiming at educating rural villagers, improving their lives and promoting rural construction.

As a form of education in China's current education system, rural education is mainly named after the nature of the places where educational activities are carried out, and its essence is relative to urban education and urban education. Similar or inclusive, as well as education in mountainous and pastoral areas. The implementation of rural education is basically in rural areas.

At present, rural education mainly provides educational services for young people living in rural areas, especially children in preschool education and compulsory education. Developing rural education is the inherent requirement of rural revitalization and the starting point of building a better rural life.

Rural education plays an important role in China's overall education, and doing a good job in rural education will help improve the overall education quality in China. China is a big agricultural country, and rural education is the "nerve endings" of China's education, which is also an important position. The faster urbanization, the more rural education should be strengthened.

Tao Xingzhi's contribution:

Mr. Tao Xingzhi devoted his life to education and made a pioneering contribution to the modernization of education in China. He not only established a complete educational theory system, but also carried out a lot of educational practice. Looking at Tao Xingzhi's educational thought, innovation is like a golden thread, which runs through Tao Xingzhi's educational thought from beginning to end.

Innovation here refers to getting rid of the "old" that does not meet the needs of the development of the times and creating the "new" that conforms to the social and historical progress. Innovation also has the significance of breaking idols, superstitions, dogmas and rigid habitual thinking.

The innovation of Tao Xingzhi's educational thought is also manifested in the training goal. He pointed out that the new education should cultivate all-round "talents" in view of the phenomenon that the old education aimed at cultivating "talents".

As early as when he founded Nanjing Anhui University, he put forward three educational goals for this school: learning knowledge and having scientific spirit; To transform the environment, we must have aesthetic artistic conception; When dealing with emergencies, you should have noble moral cultivation.