The purpose of "four major educations" is to overcome the four major problems existing in society at that time. The purpose of literature and art education is to cultivate knowledge and solve the problem of "stupidity"; The purpose of vitality education is to cultivate productivity and solve the problem of poverty; The purpose of health education is to cultivate healthy strength and solve the problem of "weakness"; The purpose of civic education is to cultivate unity and solve "private" problems.
To carry out the "four major education", we must adopt "three major ways", namely, school spirit, family spirit and social spirit. Yan is also "agriculture" before "agriculture".
Its influence
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 in China. Later, Yan planted his harvested seeds in the barren land of the world, and continued to irrigate for decades, which yielded extremely fruitful results and 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.
Strict civilian education thought has its own characteristics. According to the ancient motto of China, "People are the foundation of the country, and this is the foundation of the country", he linked and promoted civilian education and rural reconstruction as a whole, and created the thought of civilian education with one discovery, two inventions, three ways, four educations and five combinations, forming a fairly complete system, which deserves great attention.