It first appeared in Mencius with all my heart: "A gentleman has three pleasures, but the king of the world does not exist." Parents exist, brothers have no chance, and they are happy; Yang is worthy of the sky, regardless of people, but also happy; If you are educated by talented people in the world, you will have three pleasures. Xu Shen explained in Shuo Wen Jie Zi that "teaching should be applied from the top and effective from the bottom", and fostering children should be good. It was at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century that "education" became a common word. /kloc-At the end of 0/9, the founders of modern education in China, veterans of the Revolution of 1911, such as He Ziyuan and Qiu, eliminated the interference of stubborn conservative forces and successfully established and popularized new schools. Subsequently, under the pressure of the situation, the Qing government carried out a series of reforms in education, promulgated a new academic system at the end of 1905, abolished the imperial examination system, and advocated new schools nationwide. From 65438 to 0909, after the local imperial examination stopped, western learning gradually became the main form of school education.

The popularity of the word "education" in modern Chinese is linked with the modernization of education in China, which reflects the modern transformation of China's educational discourse from "learning-oriented" to "teaching-oriented". In the west, the word education comes from the Latin word education, and the prefix "e" means "out", meaning "out" or "out", which means that something originally hidden in the body and mind is triggered by some means. Etymologically speaking, the word "education" in the west has an internal meaning. It is emphasized that education is a natural activity, aiming at arousing the inherent or potential quality of natural persons from the inside out and making it a realistic development state.