The development of agricultural continuing education has a direct influence on the speed of agricultural development in China. Only by a conscientious study of the driving force for agricultural continuing education can one get a correct understanding of its importance and take an active attitude toward its development.
This paper discusses how to effectively stimulate the driving force for agricultural continuing education and proposes some essential measures for its promotion.
The agricultural education of Japan, with the Education Ministry's school agricultural education and Agriculture and Forest Ministry's continuation agricultural education as its two wheels, has all along demonstrated such characteristics as the combination of school education and continuation education, that of education and the demand of social development, of theory and practice, and of funding/qualification system and commendation/inspiration.
With the coming of knowledge economy times and the demand of the highly intelle-gents, the new agriculture education style should be developed, meanwhile the previous adult education style must be changed. Realize long-term agriculture education with the new high-technology methods train the creative intellegents with comprehensive quality.
Agricultural education has been taken by Japan as the essential measure to revitalize agriculture and the countryside, and to save agriculture from its ever declining status. The agricultural education of Japan, with the Education Ministry's school agricultural education and Agriculture and Forest Ministry's continuation agricultural education as its two wheels, has all along demonstrated such characteristics as the combination of school education and continuation education, that of education and the demand...
To meet the challenge of new century, continue education should make great effort to finish following tasks in the near future: establishing lifelong learning system, perfecting continue education law, expanding agriculture continue education, giving full pay to the higher education and scientific reserch instinute, serving the exploit of the west,developing long distance education net,enlarging international exchanges and cooperations.