Humanities education is introduced as follows:

Humanistic education refers to education aimed at promoting the improvement of the educated's human nature, shaping their ideal personality and realizing their personal and social values. Its essence is humanistic education, and its core is to cultivate humanistic spirit.

The characteristics of humanities education are introduced as follows:

Schools are no longer limited to training clergy, but to train people who understand secular knowledge, have humanitarian spirit and virtue, and can devote themselves to social progress. Some schools even take it as their training goal to cultivate bourgeois gentlemen with the qualities of bourgeois entrepreneurs, courtesy, dignified and generous manners, physical and mental health and pioneering spirit.

Believe in the role of knowledge, learning and culture in promoting moral promotion, social progress and human progress. Latin and Greek become the main courses in the school, while classical literature plays an important role in the school curriculum, and history and geography are included in the school curriculum. In some schools, mathematics and printing and dyeing science are important learning contents.

Take games and sports as necessary components of education, and advocate the healthy development of people's body and mind. Aristotle, an ancient educator, put forward the idea of education according to children's physiological and psychological characteristics, which was paid attention to and gradually put into practice.

The orientation of humanistic education is introduced as follows:

Education is originally human education, but we see that it unconsciously gives up the responsibility of educating "people" and dispels its own essence. People's education is neglected, and knowledge education and professional education are strengthened.

Once education is divorced from people, from people's soul or spirit, it is not education strictly. As Jaspers said: "Education is the education of human soul, not the accumulation of rational knowledge and understanding."

Because of this, people keep calling for strengthening humanities education. However, we are faced with different choices and orientations about what kind of humanistic education to strengthen.