Abstract: Pestalozzi's ideas of rural adult education is the result of the Enlighten ment of Capitalism in French and his life experiences, and conceives and Utopia for the neoteric mass education of the capitalism. In his ideas, the way of technological training and moral cultivation, and cultivating the demotic spirit of capitalism by the way of rational managing the family, are kind of pedagogic interpretation to realizing the development from feudal georgic society to the capitalism industry and commerce society. how to develop the rural adult education in China, can still benefit from the Pestalozzi's ideas.