First, education is to help the educated develop their own abilities, improve their personality and contribute to human culture; This is not to say that educated people are made into a special tool for people with other purposes to use ... education should develop with average personality and groups.

From: Cai Yuanpei's Selected Works of Cai Yuanpei's Education.

Second, the role of education is to cultivate a certain personality and serve a certain society according to a certain social form.

From: [Middle] Xu Teli's Collection of Xu Teli's Education.

Third, the object of education is cultural growth. If education can cultivate personality and promote social growth, then do everything possible. There is really no shortcut.

From: [Zhong] Lin's Selected Works on Education.

Fourth, national education, formally speaking, is a national right. The amount of national education in a country is directly proportional to the civil rights it realizes. From the content, national education is national life. The level of national education is in direct proportion to the development of its life.

From: [Zhong] Lin's Selected Works on Education.

Fifth, the most important thing in education is to give students the ability to transform the environment, and civilian education is an important method to transform the social environment.

From: [Middle] Tao Xingzhi's On Universal Education