It is logical for Wang Guowei to interpret aesthetic education from the perspective of pedagogy. At the beginning of his article On the Purpose of Education, he pointed out that education includes two parts: physical ability education and psychological ability education. According to the "three relationships" of knowledge, will, emotion and truth, goodness and beauty, the education of spiritual ability can be divided into three parts: intellectual education is the education of knowledge, moral education is the education of will, also called "intentional education", and aesthetic education is the education of emotion, also called "emotional education".

Wang Guowei's educational idea of cultivating a "perfect person" with all-round and harmonious development, that is, the so-called "complete education", includes two aspects: physical education and psychological education, and is subdivided into four aspects: physical education, intellectual education, moral education and aesthetic education.