Education is life, which is one of Dewey's views on the essence of education.

Starting from the relationship between education and social life, he proposed that the essence of education is life. Because children's instinctive growth always develops under certain circumstances. "Life is development; Development and growth are life. " So education is life.

Educational life

The term "life" is used to refer to all human experiences. It includes not only material aspects-social production level and family economic conditions, but also non-material aspects-social system, customs and habits, people's beliefs, entertainment and occupations. Life is the sum of people's experiences in these two aspects.

Such human social life must be the process of human gaining experience, communicating and transmitting experience. Therefore, education is closely related to social life, and education must be integrated with children's life, which is one aspect of the essence of education.