Herbart established a complete education system based on modern psychology. Therefore, in the history of western education, some people regard him as the founder of scientific pedagogy. Herbart's educational thought is multifaceted, and "education and teaching" is one of the important aspects, which has had a far-reaching impact on the development of modern education. There are always problems of moral cultivation and knowledge transmission in education and teaching. Socrates, an ancient Greek philosopher, put forward the proposition that "virtue is knowledge", and this issue has since become an eternal hot topic. However, there are always different opinions about which is more important, moral education and intellectual education, and how to combine them. Even the expression of this concept is often one-sided and vague. It was not until the beginning of19th century that Herbart systematically expounded this issue, and clearly put forward the concept of "education and teaching" as a basic principle of teaching for the first time, and the research on this issue took a new turn. Herbart believes that the cultivation of moral quality is the highest goal of education, but at the same time, it cannot relax the teaching of cultural and scientific knowledge. Therefore, moral cultivation and knowledge imparting constitute two basic contents of school education, forming two basic ways to implement school education, namely, cultivating moral sentiment through emotional and will training; Be inspired by imparting systematic knowledge.