Pedagogy is a social science that studies educational phenomena and problems, summarizes the scientific theory and practice of human educational activities, explores and solves practical educational problems encountered in the process of the emergence and development of educational activities, and thus reveals the general laws of education. Education is an activity widely existing in human social life and purposefully cultivating talents. The research of pedagogy is objective, inevitable, stable, repetitive, realistic, dialectical and scientific.

In ancient China, the emphasis on applying what you have learned and integrating knowledge with practice meant telling you how to do things and how to behave, without summarizing any rules.