The fundamental nature of China's educational purpose is to adhere to the socialist direction. The fundamental purpose of education is to educate people, and it is the responsibility of education to cultivate real people and all-round people. For all schools, teaching is the central task, but it is not an end but a means. The fundamental task of schools is to educate people.

German educator Herbart pointed out that without moral education, teaching is just a means without purpose. Without teaching, moral education is the purpose without means. The concrete implementation of teachers' professional behavior is to cultivate, shape and transform people through teachers' labor and promote their all-round development.

The process of education starts from a person's birth and lasts for a lifetime, bringing lasting and profound changes to people. Some people even think that education can start earlier. Some parents influence the growing fetus in the uterus through external words and music, and carry out prenatal education, hoping to give their children a positive and healthy development.