Yang Xianjiang (1895-1931), also known as Li Haowu, was born in Cixi, Zhejiang. He was a Marxist education theorist and the first education expert in my country to systematically propose Marx's educational theory. During his short life, *** translated more than 10 books and wrote hundreds of papers.
Yang Xianjiang proposed the educational idea of ??"whole life guidance" and believed that a young person "must have a strong body and spirit, have work knowledge and skills, have the ideals and talents to serve the people, and must have "Enriching the fashions and habits of life", it is proposed that a "perfect person" should possess the four core qualities of health, labor, citizenship, and culture, and summarizes the "perfect life" of young people as a healthy life, a labor life, a civic life, and culture 4 forms of life. The idea of ??"whole life guidance" is intrinsically unified with my country's fundamental education goal of cultivating "socialist builders and successors with comprehensive development of moral, intellectual, physical, artistic and labor". This fundamental question has important reference significance.
Yang Xianjiang believes that education is the superstructure, which is dependent on the economic base; education is restricted by both the mode of production and the political system, and it also promotes economic development and political change; education plays a role in social Emerged from the needs of productive labor and developed in the process of productive labor; the "essence" of education is closely integrated with productive labor and is enjoyed by the whole society; however, in class society, education has become the rule of the exploiting class tools, and the education implemented is divorced from productive labor. He criticized the "holy theory", "the theory of noble education", "the theory of righteousness in education" and "the theory of educational independence", and refuted the "theory of omnipotence of education", "the theory of national salvation through education" and "the theory of education first, revolution later" . He believed that the only way to change the unreasonable social system at that time was to carry out revolution. In the revolution, education should be used as one of the revolutionary weapons; after the victory of the revolution, education should promote the construction of a socialist society. Yang Xianjiang is also very concerned about the growth of young people’s political ideology, moral character, learning and health. He advocated that young people should be given "whole life guidance", and the key was to enable young people to establish a revolutionary outlook on life.