Abstract��Rural education researchers have been focusing on intellectual, seeking the tradition of educational ideas from the Confucian classics, and to act as a starting point for modernization of educational ideas. Therefore, the underlying rural people perspective was overshadowed by elite education tradition. Based on the Ethnography study of Subei M village, the paper found that "land" as the center of local life to shape the village people "pragmatic examination" tradition. It led with them on education of awareness, in this tradition of educational ideas, education as culture embellishment, "artisan" than "scholar" more meet thinking logic of "pragmatic examination"; education became tool of "take care of children" and "literacy"; role of "literacy" only is "bookkeeping" and "accounts", which constituted another "tradition" in village educational ideas.
2014, Vol. 17 
