1. The purpose of education is a theoretical term, an academic concept, and the content or category of educational principles or basic theoretical research. To explore the purpose of education is often to make a value judgment on the ideal that education should pursue on the basis of theoretical thinking, so as to determine the purpose of education and reflect the ultimate educational value that should be pursued in theory.

2. Education policy is a working term and political concept, which belongs to the field of education policy or education management. Based on the needs of social reality, it puts forward the fundamental guiding ideology or action program of a country's educational development in a certain historical period, and makes policy provisions on the reality of educational development.

3. The purpose of education is to standardize the quality of personnel training, aiming at human development and pointing to the individual educated, while the education policy reflects the overall requirements and hopes of the state for education, positioning education in the position and role of the national superstructure or ideological field.

4. The educational purpose is ideal, which is the ultimate goal pursued by educators and students through educational activities, so the educational purpose is often ideal and uncertain in the implementation process.

5. Education policy is the guiding ideology of education development and the requirement that current education must implement, which is inevitable and realistic. Generally speaking, the purpose of education should be achieved through the implementation of educational policies.

The significance of education:

The significance of education is to make people understand the responsibilities and obligations of a person to human society. Only when a person understands his responsibilities and obligations can he become a useful person, and only when he completes his responsibilities and obligations can he become a useful person. This is the purpose of education. And a person's responsibility and obligation are the main contents of education.