Strict educational thought

Yan was a rural education reformer in modern China, and had an important influence on rural education reform in China. At the beginning, the rural education reform plan was put forward, and four educational methods were put forward. The four major educational methods are to crack down on fools and cultivate knowledge through literary and artistic education. Livelihood education combats poverty and cultivates productivity. Health education, cultivate strength, attack private interests with civic education, and cultivate unity.

Focus on designing junior and senior civilian schools and livelihood recovery schools for teenagers, designing social practice education and reading and speaking activities for ordinary people and farmers' groups, and designing family education for family members, focusing on knowledge production education.

Seriously regard the important role of rural education in rural construction, and combine rural education with rural economy, culture and morality. He pays attention to the combination of school education and social education, pays attention to the solution of specific rural problems, and introduces national consciousness and western social governance model.