Pursuit:
The expression of educational purpose always permeates people's yearning and pursuit for a better life, reflects people's views and understanding of ideal life and ideal society, and has a strong nature of surpassing real life. For example, in the history of education, many educators regard "all-round development of people" or "full development of all talents of individuals" as the highest purpose of education, and the expression of educational purpose like this is full of idealism.
Long term:
In a sense, it completely transcends reality, even unattainable, completely unattainable. However, it is precisely because of this ideal and inaccessibility that the educational purpose has a spiritual appeal. Remember, the realization of educational goals is long-term, and what can be achieved in a short time is definitely not "educational goals", but only curriculum or educational goals.
Advanced nature of education:
1. Although different times, different societies and different countries have different expressions on the purpose of education, the purpose of human education is constantly evolving with the changes of society and the development of the times. We should also see that the education of all countries in the world, education from ancient times to the present, the educational ideal and educational value pursued by human beings have not changed much in some of the most important and basic aspects.
2. Developing people's "rational ability", cultivating people's "moral quality" and promoting people's "all-round development" and "harmonious development" run through the history of human educational thought development. The so-called "evolution" of educational purpose is sometimes just manifested as "inconsistent wording"; Sometimes only the most important kernel remains the same, and the periphery or edge part has changed.
3. Some "kernel" parts have also changed. For example, cultivating students' democratic consciousness, scientific spirit and creativity, these basic elements of modern education are hard to see in ancient education.
4. Although the purpose of education is constantly evolving from the perspective of historical development, there are "unchangeable" behind the "change", and those "unchangeable" parts can often better show the essence of education.