容闳小学
容闳故居位于广东省珠海市香洲区南屏镇南屏村西大街三巷1号”。而当年,南屏村西大街三巷原来叫“辅仁巷”,这是容闳出国后回家乡给起的名字。
故居大门向东,泥地夯土墙,建于清代中期。据容闳的曾孙容梓灿回忆,容闳故居原由两前廊、天井、大厅、东西边两长屋、后斗(厨房)七个部分组成,东西宽约10米,南北长约20米,面积约200平方米。
在美国纽约市曼哈顿的唐人街,有一座最高的大厦,叫做孔子大厦,大厦下有一所小学。为了纪念容闳,又命名为容闳小学。 .
英文传记
Yung Wing was born at Nanping, Xiangshan County (presently Zhuhai City) in 1828. In 1854, after Yung Wing graduated from what was then Yale College, he came back to China with a dream “that through Western education, China might be regenerated, become enlightened and powerful.” From then on, he devoted his life to a series of reforms in China. Yung Wing resolved to save the weak Qing dynasty through education and industrialisation and shouldered the responsibility for this effort, esng his reputation in the modern history of China. His initiative in establishing the unprecedented Chinese Educational Commission (CEC) gave rise to the Self-Strengthening Movement in the late Qing period. He is thus widely considered a trail blazer and great thinker in the modernization of China.
Yung Wing attended the Morrison School, established by Evangelical Lutheran Church minister Elijah C. Bridgman. This school was affiliated with a girls’ school established by Rev. Karl Friedrich A. Gutzlaff’s wife. The girls’ school closed, resulting in the suspension of Yung’s education for a time.
Samuel R. Brown, a Ph.D. graduate of Yale College, arrived in Macau in 1839 to take over the presidency of the Morrison School. Yung re-entered the school in 1841 and studied Elementary Arithmetic, Geography, and English c