Education is life, which is one of Dewey's views on the essence of education. Starting from the relationship between education and social life, he proposed that the essence of education is life. Because children's instinctive growth always develops under certain circumstances. "Life is development; Development and growth are life. " So education is life.

He added that the word "life" is used to represent all human race experiences. It includes not only material aspects, social production level and family economic conditions, but also non-material aspects, social system, customs and habits, people's beliefs, entertainment and occupation. Life is the sum of people's experiences in these two aspects.

Such human social life must be the process of human gaining experience, communicating and transmitting experience. Therefore, education is closely related to social life, and education must be integrated with children's life, which is one aspect of the essence of education.

Educational life

In the long history of human education, famous educators at home and abroad come forth in large numbers. Like stars, they enrich the treasure house of human spiritual civilization with their outstanding wisdom, making education a warm spiritual garden. In order to make the thinking and discussion about "educator" enter a new realm, the teacher's postgraduate entrance examination specially launched the column of "famous educator", believing that it can become a new fire of thought and ignite the sun of "educator" hanging above our heads.