The omnipotence of education is an argument put forward by helvetius, a French enlightenment thinker and materialist philosopher in the18th century. The decisive factor of helvetius people's growth is education. He denied the innate concept and believed that all human spiritual activities and knowledge came from the senses' feelings about external things.

He denied the individual differences between people and asserted that the formation of people is only the result of education, and the intellectual differences between people are only caused by education, that is, "what kind of people are educated will become what kind of people." On the one hand, he believes that man is the product of environment and education, and the transformation of man must transform the environment; On the other hand, people's prejudice rules the world, and it is necessary to transform people's prejudice to transform the environment, that is, to transform society through education, so education is omnipotent. Helvetius's educational theory, under the historical conditions at that time, reflected the progressive requirements of the emerging bourgeoisie to overthrow the feudal system, but fell into the idealistic historical view that "the will dominates the world".