Yan's four major educations and three major approaches are literature and art education, people's livelihood education, health education, civic education and school education, social education and family education.

School-style education, which focuses on young people and teaches them basic knowledge in school; Social education, mainly through carrying out various social group activities to educate the masses and groups; Family-style education is mainly to connect members of different status in the family horizontally for education.

Strict educational thought;

Yan's thought of civilian education is a national education thought with China characteristics. It came into being in the 1920s, and then took root, blossomed and bore fruit on the land of China. Later, Yan personally sowed the harvested seeds in barren land all over the world, and irrigated them day by day for decades, bearing extremely rich fruits.

It has trained a large number of civilian education experts and rural construction talents for China and underdeveloped countries and regions in the world. Yan, a native of Bazhong, Sichuan, China, enjoys a high reputation internationally. He is known as the "father of the world's civilian education" and was hired as a lifelong special adviser by the United Nations.