The education that has been implemented has simplified and objectified the individual, which is a kind of "serious" education, so that it ignores the individual's desires and requirements and only emphasizes what is opposite to the individual's free existence; The existing educational theories of various schools put people's self in a secondary position and only pay attention to the social goals of education; The study of knowledge standards and teaching methods completely ignores the individual's self-discovery and personality development. Existentialism holds that this kind of education is inhuman.

For the purpose of education, existentialists, starting from highlighting the absolute position of individuals, deny the decisive role of society and education in the process of human development, and think that people imagine themselves and become voluntarily. Man is "something made by himself, which is the first principle of existentialism". In other words, how everyone develops and achieves himself is mainly determined by his own subjective will, not shaped by education with a certain purpose. However, existentialists also admit that education plays an important role in promoting self-realization, because education can help young people realize their existence, pursue freedom and choose their own path.