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Ye Shengtao (1894- 1988), a famous educator, writer and educator in China, was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu. His father works as an accountant in the landlord's family, which is very poor. 1907 was admitted to Caoqiao Middle School and worked as a teacher in a primary school after graduation. 19 14 was expelled from the school, and his essays and novels were published in magazines such as Saturday. 19 15 autumn, I went to Shanggong School affiliated to Shanghai Commercial Press to teach Chinese and write Chinese textbooks for primary schools for the Commercial Press. 19 17 was hired to teach in the Fifth Higher Primary School of Wuxian Jiaozhi County. He called his toes his second hometown. 192 1 year, Shen Yanbing, Zheng Zhenduo and others initiated the establishment of "Literature Research Society". In collaboration with Xia Mianzun, he published Reading and Writing, Wen Xin, and Articles Speech. After liberation, he served as deputy director of the General Administration of Publishing, president of People's Education Publishing House and vice minister of education, and was elected as the Standing Committee of the Fifth the NPC Standing Committee, the Fifth China People's Political Consultative Conference and the Chairman of the Central Committee for Democratic Progressive Party.

Ye Shengtao, a great master.

Comrade Ye Shengtao is a well-deserved master in the history of modern Chinese education in China.

Ye Shengtao has made such a great contribution in the field of Chinese education in China. Obviously, there are both objective and subjective reasons.

Objectively, it was the times that made him. He lived in the last feudal dynasty in early China, and he was keenly aware of the disadvantages of feudal education. I personally experienced the May 4th New Culture Movement and the uncertain changes in politics, economy and culture in the following decades. Finally entered a new historical period of building socialist material civilization and spiritual civilization. Therefore, Ye Shengtao has a profound understanding and observation of traditional, emerging and foreign politics, philosophy, history, literature, linguistics and pedagogy. In addition, in this half century, a large number of pioneers of the times and pioneers in some academic fields have emerged in China's education and academic circles. Many of them are Ye Shengtao's like-minded people and close friends for decades, such as Wu Binruo and Wang in Jiao period, Shu Xincheng, Zhu Ziqing, Zhou Yutong and Liu Yanling in Wusong Chinese Academy period, Xia Mianzun, Chen Wangdao, Feng Zikai, Gu Jiegang and Guo Shaoyu in Zhejiang First Normal University period and so on. Ye Shengtao's career can not be separated from the support and cooperation of such talents as language, education and publishing at that time.

Of course, the most fundamental reason why Ye Shengtao has made outstanding achievements and great contributions is that he has many subjective conditions that can make him an academic master who has influenced generations, that is, his excellent character.

First, Ye Shengtao has a particularly deep affection for cultivating and educating the new generation of the motherland.

Ye Shengtao spent almost all his life thinking and planning about educating teenagers, so a history of modern education in China is closely related to Ye Shengtao's career. He is a down-to-earth doer in the education of the motherland. If he wants to compile an ideal primary school Chinese textbook, he will write it himself. As a famous writer at that time, he could personally write a complete set of children's Chinese textbooks. If he does not have a high sense of responsibility and deep love for educating the next generation, can he do it? In the 1930s and 1940s in old China, political corruption was reactionary and the situation was turbulent. Due to political or economic reasons, many publications were forced to stop publishing. It is in such a difficult environment that Ye Shengtao took over as the editor-in-chief of Middle School Students magazine, and went through the hardships of 10 years. In the second year as editor-in-chief, the "1 1 28th" war broke out, and Ye Shengtao "listened to the heavy artillery of enemy planes and was full of anger". Ten days later, he returned to his apartment. The front wall collapsed: on the third floor of the building, the window eaves were cut, the dust was destroyed, and the boards were broken ... The enemy robbed the objects in the room, which meant that they should go away, otherwise they would destroy them at will, and they didn't care. "In the era when the country was devastated and worried about the country and the people, Ye Shengtao stubbornly stuck to the post of editor of middle school students who nurtured Chinese sons and daughters regardless of his family, and publicized the war of resistance to young people with the sincere heart of himself and his companions to stimulate their patriotic enthusiasm (quoted from Peng's Ye Shengtao and Editorial Work). At the beginning of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Ye Shengtao moved to the rear. At the difficult juncture of national affairs, he still did not forget to train and educate the descendants of the motherland. First, he co-edited the Young Pioneers with Mao Dun and others, and then he overcame many difficulties to edit and publish the wartime bimonthly for middle school students, which really made great efforts for the growth of children and fully reflected his love for the education of the motherland.

Yes, Ye Shengtao is a famous writer, but his works often focus on the life of schools and teachers. It is often created for the needs of students' extracurricular reading. The former, such as the famous novel Ni Huanzhi and the short stories A Declaration and Mr. Pan in Trouble, etc. "Ni Huanzhi" was first published in the "Educational Literature and Art" column of a large periodical at that time, and it made its debut in the literary world as an educational novel. The latter is like his famous fairy tales Scarecrow and Stone Statue of Ancient Heroes. Therefore, it can be said that in many novels, essays and fairy tales of Ye Shengtao, there is an educator's ardent heart beating.

Now, Ye Lao is 90 years old, and he is still very concerned about the development of the four modernizations education and the reform of education and teaching in China. 1980, 13 1 month, Essays on a Sunny Window serialized in the "Education Garden" column of Wen Wei Po was written under the condition of "reading a book, using glasses and magnifying glasses, but still unable to see clearly", and each article embodies Ye Lao the deepest.

Secondly, Ye Shengtao has a broad and profound knowledge base and various cultural accomplishments.

Chinese is a comprehensive subject, and it is not easy to accurately grasp its laws. It requires the seeker to have a solid knowledge base and a high degree of cultural literacy. Ye Shengtao has a special personality in knowledge and cultivation. He is both an excellent teacher and an excellent editor. He is not only a famous writer in the literary world, but also a predecessor in the field of linguistics. As a teacher, he has been engaged in Chinese teaching in primary schools, middle schools, universities, normal schools and other schools, so he has been familiar with some laws of ordinary people learning and mastering Chinese tools since he was a child, and has a comprehensive and profound understanding of the whole process of Chinese teaching. As an editor, he has written textbooks, educational periodicals, youth periodicals and countless other liberal arts books. According to the theory of philology, he has made a deep study of China's ancient books, including Thirteen Classics Index, Notes on Xunzi and Notes on Zhoujiang Ci. His achievements in modern literary creation and criticism are well known to all people in China. From the perspective of language theory, Ye Shengtao has almost everything, including textual exegesis, lexical syntax, rhetorical logic and even article study. He is regarded as one of the few language masters in China. His article is "rigorous and cordial, clear and unforgettable", which is "beyond the reach of many writers" (Ding Lingyu). Such a person with high literacy in all aspects can examine various phenomena in Chinese education and teaching from many aspects and angles, so as to gain a more accurate and comprehensive understanding.

Third, Ye Shengtao has a correct learning attitude and extensive reading, and has always been based on China's excellent national traditions.

Ye Shengtao has long said: "Although the people of China need modernization, it is the modernization of China people. We must first know ourselves." In other words, all foreign advanced theories and theories introduced to meet the needs of modernization must be digested and absorbed, so that useful things can become our own nourishment, and our own growth can be faster, fuller and more substantial, and this introduction can never be regarded as a substitute. Ye Shengtao's behaviors, speeches and articles, his thoughts and ways of expressing his thoughts can be said to be purely "China-like", but they are always in step with the development of the whole era and society.

Finally, perhaps the most important thing is that Ye Shengtao pays attention to the word "sincerity" when dealing with people, and is humble, simple, sensitive, calm and warm to people and things. As early as the 1920s, when he first devoted himself to the cause of culture and education, he put forward the creed of "sincerity". He said: "I often feel that the word' sincerity' is a necessary condition for any profession." Throughout his life, he advocated sincerity, hated affectation, did not deceive the world, did not flatter the vulgar, firmly believed in the truth and the inherent laws of things, and would never easily change his feelings, views and beliefs about his career because of the change of political situation; Unless it turns out that you are really wrong, wrong and wrong. This is the character that a real scholar should have, and it is also the basic but valuable character of an educator who leads by example.

It is precisely because Ye Shengtao takes "honesty" as his foundation that his basic views on Chinese education and teaching have remained unchanged for decades. For example, the view that Chinese subject must deal with the relationship between teaching and educating people, the view that liberal arts students should pay attention to content but pay more attention to form in reading and writing, and so on; No matter what the political climate, he has always insisted and never wavered. Because in his view, this is something that embodies the law of education and teaching in China. Since it is a law, it can only follow the internal logic and cannot be artificially changed. However, his views and comments on some specific issues are often developed or even updated with the enrichment of practice and the deepening of research. For example, the idea that middle school students should use the whole book as a Chinese textbook is not exactly the same in the early and late stages; Regarding the consistency and uniqueness of spoken and written language, the later discussion is more complete and comprehensive than the previous discussion. All these reflect his relative character of "sincerity" in dealing with people.

Ye Shengtao's spiritual wealth provided to people all his life is extremely rich, profound and precious. His character is an example to us educators.

* Original Normal Education 1984, Issue 2.

Literary works

Ye Shengtao's main pen names are Ye Tao, Shengtao and Guishan. 19 14 started writing novels in classical Chinese, and 19 18 published works in vernacular Chinese. He wrote a lot of novels, essays, essays, poems and children's literature in his life.

Spring Banquet Zotan: His First Vernacular Novel

Ni Huanzhi: A Novel

Scarecrow: Early Fairy Tales

Diaphragm: A Collection of Novels

Fire: a collection of novels

Newspapers and magazines

Ye Shengtao has served as editor, editor-in-chief or editor-in-chief of the following newspapers:

Saturday

Shanghai current affairs news

Shanghai Republic of China Daily

Literary weekly

Axiomatic daily

China Monthly

Suzhou review

Women magazine

Novel monthly

middle school student

Enlightened boy

Chinese writer

People education

China people are in China.

poetic sentiment

light

China magazine

Middle school students' wartime biweekly

Ye Shengtao Memorial

Ye Shengtao Memorial Hall of Ye Shengtao Park in Jiaozhi Town is located in the West Garden of Baosheng Temple in Jiaozhi District, Suzhou. This is the original site of the fifth higher primary school in the county where he taught from 19 17 to 1922.