Modern educational thoughts include the thoughts of rejuvenating the country through science and education, quality education, subjective education, scientific education, humanistic education, innovative education, practical education, lifelong education and national education.

Broadly speaking, people's various understandings of educational phenomena, whether scattered, individual, superficial, systematic, universal and profound, belong to the category of educational thought.

Narrow educational thought mainly refers to people's educational cognition formed by theoretical processing, which has the profundity of thinking, abstract generality, logical systematicness and realistic reality.