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Want to know what education is?
Education means that educators exert a series of influences on the educated. Education in a broad sense includes school education, family education and social education, while education in a narrow sense refers to school education, which has a distinct class nature. Our education is to train builders and successors of the socialist cause, and our education is to serve the proletariat and the broad masses of working people. The current form of school education is still the class teaching system.

Characteristics of education

The word "education" comes from Mencius and is cultivated for the talents in the world. Scholars in different countries have different understandings of the definition of education. Dewey in the United States said that education is life, while Spencer in Britain said that education is preparation for future life.

According to Li Zhuang of China, education is to force or guide the educated to accept specific knowledge, rules, information, skills and techniques. Confucius attached great importance to education. He regards education, population and wealth as the three elements of building a country, so he says that sex is similar and learning from each other is far from each other. His idea of teaching without distinction also comes from the idea of gender similarity.

Mr. Lu Xun said that education is to cultivate people, and children's education is mainly to understand, guide and liberate. Tao Xingzhi believes that education is to educate people with action ability, thinking ability and creativity according to life and for life.

Locke is a famous British empiricist philosopher, and his book Random Talk on Education is regarded as an educational classic. Locke's educational thought is deeply inspired.

Education is the foundation of our country. We have been learning knowledge and culture since childhood, and more importantly, we have learned how to be an ideal and moral person. Education is for us to make continuous progress, and the ultimate goal of education is to cultivate sound people.