Ye Shengtao’s childhood story
Ye Shengtao has been among those with extraordinary talents since he was born. Father Ye Boren hoped that his son would become a successful boy and found him a well-known local private school. Ye Shengtao began to read and practice calligraphy at the age of three. It is said that he knew at least 3,000 characters by the age of six. In order to cultivate his son's habits and urge his son to study, his father set a rule for him: "If you can't recite the book, you can't eat." Ye Shengtao has an excellent memory and is highly motivated to learn. He rarely makes any mistakes and eats every meal on time. The father was overjoyed and enrolled his son in a well-known private school. The private school teacher was very demanding. Ye Shengtao did not neglect his studies at all, and he was soon able to memorize classical books such as the "Four Books" and "The Book of Songs".
Ye Boren’s education for his son is not limited to studies. He believes that children should see more of the world. Because his father was a bookkeeper, when Ye Shengtao was young, he often followed his father in the society to collect rent. His father took him to pay New Year's greetings, celebrate birthdays, participate in weddings and funerals, and various ceremonies, which allowed him to see the customs and customs of society, and also allowed him to experience the warmth and warmth of human relationships early on. These scenes appeared in Ye Shengtao's later writings. In "Three Five Dou More", Ye Shengtao can truly portray the miserable life of farmers, which is inseparable from what he saw and heard in his childhood.
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Ye Shengtao's famous sayings
1. Moral education focuses on practice, not on being able to speak well.
2. Of course you have to write articles, but the most important thing is to be a human being.
3. Correcting educational ideas is the most important point in reforming education.
4. Morality must be cultivated through democracy.
5. The value of primary school education lies in laying the foundation for primary school students to have a true and clear outlook on life throughout their lives.
6. School education should benefit the educated throughout their lives.
7. The key point of education is to develop children's correct mental thinking ability.
8. The purpose of school education is to enable students to develop a correct outlook on life.
9. The ultimate goal of teachers’ work is to cultivate students with various good habits.
10. Teaching is to achieve the goal without teaching.
Life of Ye Shengtao
In 1894, he was born in Wuxian County, Suzhou.
In 1907, he was admitted to Caoqiao Middle School and served as a primary school teacher after graduation. In 1914, he was kicked out of school and began to write classical Chinese novels.
In November 1911, the name was changed to Ye Shengtao, and his pen names include Ye Jin, Shengtao, Siti, Guishan, Bingcheng, Yingsheng, etc. He graduated from middle school in the same year and later became a primary school teacher in a township.
In 1915, he served as a Chinese teacher at the Shang Gong School of the Shanghai Commercial Press and compiled Chinese textbooks for primary school students.
In 1916, he entered the Shang Gong School attached to the Shanghai Commercial Press to teach. my country's first fairy tale "Scarecrow" was written by him.
In 1917, he applied to teach at the Fifth Higher Primary School of Wu County in Luzhi County, Wuxian County, where he carried out educational reforms and wrote new textbooks. He worked until 1922 and began writing.
In 1918, his first vernacular novel "Spring Banquet Tales" was published in "Women's Magazine", Volume 4, Issues 2 and 3. ?
In 1919, he joined the New Wave Society of Peking University and began to create vernacular literature, publishing novels, new poems, literary reviews and drama scripts.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia------Ye Shengtao