Ye Shengtao is a modern writer and educator. He used to be a Chinese teacher in primary school. 1949, he served as deputy minister of education, president and editor-in-chief of People's Education Publishing House.
From putting forward the Chinese teaching goal of being able to read, recognize, speak and write to constructing: paying equal attention to listening, speaking, reading and writing. Ye Shengtao's thought of Chinese education greatly influenced and promoted the formation, development and maturity of modern Chinese education in China.
Among them, the teaching thought of "reading the whole book" is undoubtedly the core connotation of Ye Shengtao's Chinese teaching thought. Ye Shengtao is the first educator who put forward the whole reading teaching idea and put it into Chinese reading teaching practice. Investigating this teaching idea and revealing the formation and construction of Ye Shengtao's Chinese reading thought are of great enlightenment to the current teaching and practice of "whole reading".
Ye Shengtao's influence:
1. Promote the reform of modern education in China: Ye Shengtao believes that the purpose of education is not only to impart knowledge, but more importantly to cultivate students' thinking ability and creativity. He advocated using vernacular Chinese teaching to improve students' reading and writing ability, and emphasized that students should pay attention to comprehensive quality education. These educational thoughts had a far-reaching impact on the education in China.
2. Promote the development of the New Culture Movement: Ye Shengtao advocates "art for life" in his literary creation, and his works pay attention to social reality and life value, which has played a positive role in promoting the development of the New Culture Movement in China.
3. Inheriting the essence of culture: Ye Shengtao attaches great importance to the inheritance and development of traditional culture. He advocated combining traditional culture with modern life and carrying forward its essence, which also had a positive impact on the later cultural development.
4. Trained a generation of teachers: Ye Shengtao not only made outstanding achievements in literature and education, but also was an excellent teacher. He pays attention to heuristic teaching and emphasizes students' independent thinking ability and creativity. His educational thoughts and methods had a far-reaching impact on the later teachers' profession.
5. Promote the development of press and publication: Ye Shengtao has also made outstanding achievements in the field of press and publication. He advocated that news reports should be true, objective and fair, which also had a positive impact on later news publishing.