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What is the value of education?
Educational value: the evaluation of educational activities and their results to meet their own needs, and the objectification of their own educational needs and ideals. Educational value includes (classification of educational value):

1, the external value and internal value of education

The external value of education: a means to achieve other purposes.

The intrinsic value of education: education for knowledge, learning for ability and learning and education for truth.

The essence of educating people is to make people master knowledge, develop their abilities, form good ideological quality and form people with all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique, which is the basis of the intrinsic value of education. Re-examining the value of education means emphasizing the intrinsic value of education.

2. Social value and personal value of education.

Social value of education: education meets the needs of social existence, continuity and development, and reflects its own value in the process of meeting social needs.

Personal value of education: the satisfaction of education to people's life and their own development needs reflects their own value in meeting personal needs.

Education and its teachers and students should be the unity of socialization and individualization, which can correctly handle the interests of human beings, countries and individuals, as well as their long-term and practical interests. Contemporary education is an education that meets the needs of social education and individual education, and it is the unity of social standard and individual standard. Education should take promoting the unified development of people's socialization and individuality as its unremitting pursuit and highest goal.

3. Value in education and the value of education.

Values in education: what kind of values should be cultivated in students in education is related to the purpose of education. ? What educational purpose should educational activities achieve, what life value should be realized, and what value content should be taught to students. ? Value in education: economic value, political value, scientific value, moral value, aesthetic value, etc. }

Value of education: What kind of educational activities have educational value and can effectively gain value in those educations is related to the content and methods of education. ? What activities should be carried out in educational activities, and what ways and means can be adopted to meet the requirements of education and receive the effect of education.

4. The humanistic value and scientific value of education.

The purpose of education is to help people accept human spiritual culture and cultivate the personality of every educated person in the process of cultural transmission and acceptance. This is the essence and purpose of education, and it is also the core and essence of all values of education. "Exam-oriented education" is a typical utilitarian education and voucher education that does not pay attention to ideals and abilities and the value of knowledge, culture and science. Scientific educational values should be highly unified in morality, intelligence, physique and beauty, and highly unified in humanistic education and scientific education. The purpose of contemporary educational reform is to form a new educational value and humanistic spirit that combines scientific spirit with humanistic spirit.

5. The inheritance value and innovation value of education.

To survive, human beings must inherit the tradition; To develop, we should not only inherit the tradition, but also transcend the tradition and create the future. To form innovative education, we must deal with the relationship between imparting and learning knowledge and cultivating and developing ability, developing general ability and developing innovative ability, and forming innovative spirit and moral character, but we must first form an open and democratic education. To form an open and democratic education, we must first form an open, democratic and innovative society, which is the necessary condition or foundation for open, democratic and innovative education.

6. The long-term ideal value and realistic value of education.

The purpose of education is to transcend reality, pursue ideals and realize them. Only by adhering to the spirit of Utopia can education be based on reality, face the future, serve the tendency of instrumentalism and realize ontology.

7. The special value and public value of education.

Education not only has the special value of cultivating specialized talents and elite talents through selection, but also has the public value of generally improving citizens' scientific, cultural and ideological and moral qualities. The two complement each other and should maintain a balanced development.