The goal of science education is to improve students' scientific quality and promote their all-round progress; Science education curriculum should reflect reality, comprehensiveness and times; The process of science education should attach importance to scientific methods and be full of scientific spirit; Science education should be combined with humanities education.

Scientific education thought is a trend of thought that emphasizes that basic scientific knowledge, basic concepts and basic principles should occupy a dominant position in school education content, and the cultivation of scientific thinking ability runs through all educational activities.

Spencer believes that the purpose of education is to prepare for a full life, and he calls for education to be liberated from the shackles of classicism and adapt to the needs of life and production. Spencer believes that all human activities are inseparable from scientific knowledge, which has the most important value in guiding people's lives.

Main impacts:

1. Scientific education thought emphasizes the value of scientific knowledge and strongly advocates scientific education. On the basis of criticizing and attacking traditional classical education, Spencer and Huxley clearly put forward the most valuable view of scientific knowledge. The concept of science education attaches great importance to the reform of school curriculum and teaching methods.

2. The emergence and development of scientific education ideas meet the objective requirements of social development and the progress of the times. It contains many conclusions that reflect the objective laws of education and have universal guiding significance. Scientific educational ideas have influenced the curriculum and teaching content of school education.

It has effectively promoted the school curriculum reform in Britain and other European and American countries, and the scientific education thought has played a great role in promoting the development of modern educational practice and educational thought.

3. The thought of science education also has its historical limitations. Spencer's curriculum theory reflects the interests of the bourgeoisie, with utilitarianism, experience and mechanism. Due to the limitations of history and philosophy, Spencer and Huxley showed incompleteness in the relationship between science and religion.