The basic concepts of labor education are introduced as follows:

The basic idea of labor education is to strengthen the concept of labor and carry forward the spirit of labor; Emphasize physical and mental participation, pay attention to the use of hands and brains; Inherit fine traditions and highlight the characteristics of the times; Give play to the main role and stimulate innovation and creation.

The overall goal is to accurately grasp the labor spirit, labor value orientation and labor skill level training requirements of socialist builders and successors, comprehensively improve students' labor literacy, enable students to establish a correct labor concept, have the necessary labor ability, cultivate positive labor spirit, and develop good labor habits and quality.

Labor education has three basic characteristics:

First, the ideological content is clear, emphasizing that workers are the masters of the country, and all workers and laborers should be encouraged and respected, and opposing all wrong ideas of getting something for nothing, advocating getting rich and coveting pleasure.

The second is to highlight sociality, and to guide students to the society, understand the society, enhance their sense of responsibility, and realize a new type of equal and harmonious labor relations in socialist society.

Third, it is obviously practical, with hands-on practice as the main way to guide students to learn to build the world and shape themselves on the basis of understanding the world, so as to achieve the purpose of cultivating sentiment, increasing wisdom, strengthening physical fitness and educating beauty.

Great significance:

Labor education is an important part of Socialism with Chinese characteristics's education system, which directly determines the mental outlook, labor value orientation and labor skill level of socialist builders and successors. For a long time, all regions and schools have adhered to the combination of education and productive labor, and achieved certain results in practical education.

At the same time, we should also see that in recent years, some teenagers have appeared the phenomenon of not cherishing the fruits of labor, unwilling to work and unable to work. The unique educational value of labor is neglected to some extent, and labor education is being diluted and weakened. The whole party and society must attach great importance to this and take effective measures to strengthen labor education.