Moore, a British humanist educator in the Renaissance, first proposed in his Republic that children should take part in agricultural production and labor while studying.
1, all-round development
The ideal and theory of cultivating an all-round individual to the real world. This is the basic feature that distinguishes modern education from previous education. Modern education is called modern education because it can put forward the goal of cultivating modern people, that is, individuals with all-round development, and put it into practice.
2. Basic performance
This basic feature and the previous feature, that is, cultivating all-round individuals, are two fundamental features of modern education. Modern large-scale machine production based on modern science and technology requires the broad masses of workers to understand science and technology, be familiar with production principles and master modern production knowledge and skills.
3. Science and humanities
The core of modern education is science education. The content of education is scientific, and the method of education is also scientific. Without science education, there would be no modern education. The opposite of science education is religious education or faith-based education; It is essentially different from empirical education or common sense education limited to knowledge and perceptual activities; It also broke the limitations of the so-called elegant education or classical culture education.
The British economist John Bells put forward the idea of combining education with manual labor for the first time in his proposal on establishing all useful labor colleges for handicrafts and agriculture, which has obvious characteristics of combining education with small production.
Owen, a utopian British socialist, put forward and expounded the idea of combining education with productive labor from the requirements of scientific and technological progress for the quality of workers, and made preliminary experiments, but it was still utopian.