Plato's Republic puts forward harmonious education. Plato believes that the educated should cultivate people who are "beautiful in body and mind" through factors such as morality, intelligence, physique and beauty.

As far as China is concerned, the concept of harmonious education can be traced back to Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period. The "adult" mentioned by Confucius is the unity of benevolence, wisdom, courage and three virtues.

Wang Shouren, on the other hand, clearly put forward the connotation of harmonious education-education should "open its consciousness", "express its will" and "guide it with reason". In short, it is to let the educated "know" and "feel" develop harmoniously.

Cai Yuanpei, a modern educator, also clearly pointed out that education should "take the world outlook as the ultimate goal, take aesthetic education as a bridge, and carry out the education of harmonious development of body, intelligence, morality and beauty". The Fourth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee put forward the important strategic thought of building a harmonious socialist society. As an important part of social system, education plays a leading, overall and basic role in economic and social development.

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Adhering to coordinated development is the guarantee of harmonious education. On the one hand, the coordinated development of education refers to the coordinated development of education and economy and society, that is, the scale, quality, structure and benefit of education, the reform, development and stability of education, and the quantity and quality of personnel training are coordinated and adapted to social needs.

On the other hand, it refers to the coordinated development of education itself, that is, educators should respect the law of education and the law of talent growth, and train them to become qualified modern citizens with reasonable intelligent structure and healthy physical and mental quality.

Persisting in sustainable development is the motive force of harmonious education;

First, adhere to the laws of education, rather than relying on subjective assumptions, and take it for granted to prevent education from ups and downs, detours, and delays in personnel training.

The second is to establish the educational concept of sustainable development and cultivate talents with sustainable development. Sustainable education must give priority to improving people's attitudes towards life, others, society and nature, and attach importance to cultivating people's healthy psychology, sound personality, scientific thinking methods, optimistic attitude towards life, strong sense of social responsibility and civic awareness.

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