First, guide educators to reflect on all kinds of complicated educational problems in educational life, enhance educators' rationality and improve the quality of educational activities. Daily educational practice often numbs educators because of its busy and fixed procedures, and educational philosophy will provide you with a kind of "insight" and "light" to penetrate this numbness. Kant, a German philosopher, said: "Insight certainly needs education, and education also depends on insight." Feuer (L.S.), an American educator, pointed out more clearly that the purpose of educational philosophy is to liberate teachers from fixed and rigid procedures and a large number of accidents, so that they can gain "freedom of education" and thus promote the self-renewal of teachers' individual educational life. This is very important not only for teachers, but also for principals and education administrators.

Second, rationally criticize various popular educational concepts, educational terms, educational slogans, educational theories, etc. And make actual prediction and theoretical construction. As we know, China is currently in a major social transition period, and the world economy and science and technology are changing with each passing day. Different educational ideas are adopted through different educational slogans, policies, theories and terms. It directly or indirectly affects our education work and life. One of the important duties of an educational philosopher is to be highly sensitive to these things, dissect and analyze them with reason, so as to test and guide the public's educational concepts, build a more reasonable educational theory on this basis, and make some predictions or theoretical guidance on educational life.

Thirdly, in the relationship with other branches of pedagogy, educational philosophy also bears a special mission. It is recognized that there is a huge educational discipline group, that is, "diversified educational science", which certainly makes the development of educational science flourish, but due to the lack of communication and cooperation between disciplines, educational science also lacks cohesion. Pedagogy in the traditional sense has become less and less important because of the vigorous development of pluralistic educational science, and it has only become an introduction or introduction to educational science. In this case, Zhou Haobo pointed out: "This will inevitably lead to difficulties in dialogue and integration between educational knowledge ... which requires all kinds of knowledge to be relatively under certain standards. This comprehensive task must be undertaken by educational philosophy. " Obviously, this will be a very important duty and task of educational philosophy, and this special duty and task also reveals the extraordinary important position and role of educational philosophy in the educational science system.