A General Survey of the Experiment of Rural Education (1926-1938) — Its Background and Its Approach

In the span of the years between 1926 and 1938 paralleling the period of national reconstruction in China, rural education was extensively experimented and sponsored by private unions or official institutes in the rural districts of many provinces in the country. This kind of educational experiment found its origin in 1919. After the outbreak of the May Fourth. Movement, educators began to pay their attention to the rual people, farmers in majority, who occupied eighty per cent of Chinese population but had long been excluded from the light of education. Being urged by two desires to extend compulsory education and to save ruined villages, enlightened people had for six years published newspapers and journals to advocate rural education or put their ideas into operation.