In terms of educational value, the general tendency of rationalism is: attaching importance to knowledge and ignoring practice; Attach importance to liberal arts education and despise practical education; Attach importance to theoretical disciplines and despise practical disciplines. They divided liberal arts education and vocational education, theoretical disciplines and practical disciplines into high and low, which caused many disputes about the educational value later. In the view of rationalists, the rational education of knowledge for the sake of knowledge is the most valuable education. With the rapid development of science and technology today, rationalism is of course more and more unacceptable.

(2) In methodology, rationalists emphasize rational training and pay attention to people's inner activities; In terms of educational methods, it pays attention to formal training. They think that rational training is more important than imparting some knowledge. They find it useless to memorize a lot of dead knowledge. Rationalists pay attention to formal training, which has certain advantages in the sense of developing one's intelligence. However, if you are completely divorced from reality and only carry out abstract reasoning activities in your mind, this kind of training will inevitably make formalistic mistakes.

The difference between rationalism and empiricism is often reflected in formal education and substantive education to varying degrees. At present, the debate between cognitive school and behaviorism in psychology also reflects some problems in the debate between rationalism and empiricism in some aspects.

Although rationalists see the important role of rational knowledge, they only admit the reality of reason, but not the reality of experience, which separates the relationship between perceptual knowledge and rational knowledge. In this way, rational things become passive water, rootless trees and subjective unreliable things, and the source, development and function of knowledge cannot be truly explained scientifically.