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Why is Julian called "the father of comparative education"?
Julian is called "the father of comparative education" because in 18 17, he published his masterpiece: Comparative Education Research Plan and Preliminary Opinions, which also marked the birth of comparative education research.

Comparative pedagogy is to study the education of different countries, nationalities and regions in the world by using the viewpoints and methods of dialectical materialism and historical materialism and comprehensively applying relevant new science and technology. On the basis of discussing their respective economic, political, philosophical and national traditional characteristics, this paper studies some common characteristics, development laws and general trends of education, and makes a scientific prediction.

In order to give full play to the best role of education according to the national characteristics and the specific situation of the country and serve to improve the quality of education and the people's cultural and scientific level.

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Basic characteristics of comparative education;

1, international. Comparative education should at least make a comparative study of education in more than two countries. It is transnational and has international characteristics.

2. comparability. In international education, only through comparison can we identify, and only through identification can we explore scientific conclusions that conform to objective laws as a reference for our country.

3. interdisciplinary. The task of comparative pedagogy research is to concentrate the achievements of several social disciplines to study the education of various countries, which spans the scope of several disciplines. Therefore, it is necessary to have knowledge of philosophy, history, political economy and sociology, and be familiar with the research methods of these disciplines in order to make a historical and social concrete analysis and comprehensive comparison of education in various countries.