Five educations in the new period refer to moral education, intellectual education, physical education, aesthetic education and labor education put forward in Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Deepening Education and Teaching Reform and Improving the Quality of Compulsory Education in an All-round Way.
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The ultimate goal of education is to pursue the surreal material world and make people reach the highest spiritual realm. Therefore, there must also be world outlook education, that is, education that guides the educated to transcend the world and understand the highest spiritual realm. He believes that this kind of world outlook education is the unity of knowledge, emotion, meaning, morality, intelligence and physique.
From the phenomenon world to the physical world, we can only rely on intuitive aesthetic feeling, which is a bridge between the two worlds. He advocated "replacing religion with aesthetic education", and all levels of schools and various social activities should carry out aesthetic education.
Cai Yuanpei's educational ideology is based on military national education and utilitarian education, centered on moral education, with world outlook education as the ultimate goal and aesthetic education as the bridge.