First of all, we should distinguish between education and teaching.

Education in a broad sense refers to any activity that purposefully enhances people's knowledge and skills, affects people's ideology and morality, and enhances people's physique. Including various purposeful influences on people at home, at school, between relatives and friends, and in society.

In a narrow sense, education refers to an activity that, according to the reality and future needs of a certain society, leads the educated to acquire knowledge and skills purposefully, planned and organized, cultivates their ideological and moral character, develops their intelligence and physical strength, and thus cultivates the educated to meet the needs of a certain society (or a certain class) and promote social development. It includes full-time school education, amateur school education, correspondence education and radio and television education.

Teaching refers to an educational activity in which teachers purposefully and systematically guide students to learn and promote the development of students' physical and mental quality. It is a special cognitive practice that teachers "teach" and students "learn".

It can be seen that education and teaching are the relationship between whole and part. Education includes teaching, and teaching is only a basic way for schools to implement all-round development education.

Therefore, the connotation of educational goals is greater than teaching goals.

However, as far as a specific teaching activity is concerned, its teaching goal can almost be equal to the educational goal of the teaching activity.