1. Education is an activity of cultivating people, which mainly acts on society through the cultivated people.
Education, especially school education, is a social activity that consciously influences, cultivates and shapes people. It is an important social function of education to adapt to and promote social development by cultivating people. This function will be rapidly enhanced with the accelerated development of society and the improvement of individual initiative and creativity. We must adhere to and carry forward this feature of education in order to effectively promote the development of modern society.
2. Education has its own characteristics, laws and principles.
Education is an activity to cultivate people. People have the characteristics of natural initiative, plasticity and creative potential, and have special laws of physical and mental development and maturity.
Education, teaching and related activities should not only recognize, follow and creatively use these basic characteristics and laws to cultivate talents, but also attach importance to and follow the valuable experience and scientific principles summarized by predecessors in this regard, such as making use of the situation, teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, step by step, inspiring and inducing, respecting teachers and loving students. In order to reach the level reached by predecessors and continue to develop and progress on this basis.
3. Education has its own development tradition and continuity.
The specific educational structure, activity mode, educational organization form, subject curriculum and educational system are precious wisdom, resources and wealth accumulated in the development of education, which have the continuity, inheritance and inertia of development.
Whether it is running a school, developing educational undertakings or carrying out educational reform, we should attach importance to and draw lessons from the historical experience of education, actively improve on the original basis and make steady progress, and we should not rashly deny the continuity of education and try to make another set.