What is education? At first glance, this question seems simple, but at an international education conference, Dr. Huang Quanyu, who was studying in the United States, asked a British educator, but there was no following. It can be seen that this problem is not that simple. With regard to the definition of education, educators, thinkers and some people at home and abroad have their own "quotations", which can be summarized as follows: Confucius said: "The way of a university is to be moral and for the people, and stop at perfection." Lu Xun: "Education is to cultivate people." Children's education is mainly about understanding, guidance and liberation. Cai Yuanpei: "Education is to help the educated develop their abilities, improve their personality and do their part in human culture, rather than making the educated a special tool." Tao Xingzhi: Education is a "life education" based on and for life, which cultivates people with action ability, thinking ability and creativity. Huang Quanyu: Education "The important thing is not to load the car, but to fill the tank with oil." Zhong Qiquan: Education is the basis of "student development" and "personality growth". Qin Wenjun: "Education should be a door. Open it, full of sunshine and flowers. It can bring confidence and happiness to children." There are also many wonderful and incisive expositions about "education" abroad: Marx and Engels: Education is to promote "the free development of individual originality." Kant: Education is a process of individual self-design, self-selection, self-construction and self-evaluation. It is the development of self-ability. It embodies the social will and mechanism that educators and educatees explore together in an equal, free, prudent and serious way. It is not "instigation" or "substitution", and it is not to let the young butterflies in the cocoon cater to or yield against their will. Einstein: "What is education? When you forget all the education, the rest is education. " Howard gardner: What is education? Education is to let children experience and discover what the world is like and what role educators can play in it. Montessori: "Education is to stimulate life, enrich life, help children survive with their own strength and help them develop this spirit." Jaspers: "Education is the education of human soul, not the accumulation of rational knowledge." Amicus: Education is "education of love". Various interpretations, each with its own merits, all lead to the door of truth from a certain angle. The education research report submitted by the International 2 1 Century Education Committee to UNESCO said: Education is "to ensure that everyone enjoys the freedom of thought, judgment, emotion and imagination needed to give full play to their talents, and to control their own destiny as firmly as possible." As an educator, figuring out what education is is of great benefit to understanding the essence of education, clarifying one's own functions and responsibilities, and finding the way forward. This is not a question of walking into a dead end after talking. Because there is no rational consciousness, it is impossible to become a conscious and sober educator in practice.