Education policy (English name: guideline for education) is the general direction and policy of education work put forward by a country or political party at a certain historical stage, and it is the general summary of basic education policy. It is a strategic policy and action program that determines the direction of education development and guides the whole education development.
Guiding principle for education (Guiding principle for education) A strategic general policy or general guiding ideology formulated by the state for the development of education at a certain stage according to the needs and possibilities of social and personal development. The content includes the nature, position, purpose and basic approach of education. Different historical periods have different educational policies; In the same historical period, due to the need to emphasize a certain aspect, the expression of education policy will be different. As can be seen from the above definition, the makers of education policies are all countries or political parties, which are closely related to the educational purpose.
This policy mainly has the following important contents:
1. Education must serve socialist modernization, which is the general direction of education in China.
Education must be combined with productive labor. The whole educational undertaking should adapt to the requirements of national economic development, and constantly make new progress in the contents and methods of combining education with productive labor. This is an important content that cannot be ignored in education policy.
3. All-round development of morality, intelligence and physique is an important standard of education and training objectives.
4. Training builders and successors of socialist cause is the overall training goal of socialist education in China.