The essence of education refers to the fundamental relationship between the internal elements of education and the fundamental characteristics of education as a social activity that distinguishes it from other social activities.

The goals of education are as follows: ① In Chinese mainland, education must serve the socialist modernization and be combined with productive labor to cultivate builders and successors of the socialist cause with all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique. ② Taiwan Province Province: The purpose of education is to cultivate people's sound personality, democratic literacy, concept of rule of law, humanistic accomplishment, strong physique and the ability of thinking, judging and creating, to promote them to respect basic human rights, protect the ecological environment, understand and care for different countries, nationalities, genders, religions and cultures, and to make them become modern citizens with national consciousness and international vision.

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Marxist pedagogy holds that education is a social phenomenon and a unique activity of human beings. Education is a unique social phenomenon in human society. Although there are similar phenomena of "education" and "teaching" and "learning" in the animal kingdom, especially in the higher animal kingdom, these two seemingly similar phenomena are essentially different.

References:

The Essence of Education-Baidu Encyclopedia

The purpose of education-Baidu Encyclopedia