After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), "educational policy" was used instead of "educational purpose".

Educational policy is the guiding principle of educational development put forward by a country or political party at a certain historical stage. Who should education serve and what kind of people should be trained are important issues with overall and fundamental significance in education. Therefore, the core content of education policy is to stipulate the training objectives and development direction of education.

Because "different historical periods have different educational policies; In the same historical period, due to the need to emphasize a certain aspect, the expression of education policy will be different. " Therefore, for the same political party, the education policy has stages.

Variability:

Because the educational policy makers are countries or political parties, in different historical periods, countries or political parties always have different policies on the development of education. In some countries, political parties take turns to govern, so education strategies and policies will change frequently and education policies will be different. Social organizations and educational philosophers often decide the purpose of education, and once the purpose is put forward, it has relative stability.

Moreover, the education policies of the same political party in different periods can be different, and the education policies of different political parties can even be completely opposite. Therefore, the variability of educational policy is far greater than the variability of educational purpose.

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