严复所倡导的社会达尔文主义、社会有机体理论和合理利己主义对早年毛泽东影响很深,但毛泽东接触并成为坚定的马克思主义者后,就对严复信奉的这种庸俗进化论思想和唯心史观予以扬弃,并运用“唯物论”、“阶级论”、“共产主义理想”等马克思主义理论对这些观点进行了批判改造,从而创建了人民教育哲学。 Yan Daru advocated social Darwinism, the theory of social organisms and rational egoism had a profound impact on the early years of Mao Zedong. However, after Mao Zedong contacted and became a firm Marxist, he sublated such vulgar evolutionism and idealism as Yan Fu believed , And used Marxist theories such as Materialism, Class Theory and Communism Idealism to critically reform these views so as to create a philosophy of people’s education.