1. Cultivating people's intelligence and knowledge: One of the ontological functions of education is to cultivate people's intelligence and knowledge and improve people's cognitive level and learning ability.
2. Cultivate people's emotion and morality: The second ontological function of education is to cultivate people's emotion and morality, so that people have noble personality and moral quality and good emotional communication and cooperation ability.
3. Cultivate people's creativity and innovative spirit: The third ontological function of education is to cultivate people's creativity and innovative spirit, improve people's thinking and creative ability, and promote social progress and innovation.
4. Realizing the importance of human personality and freedom of development: The fourth ontological function of education is to realize the importance of human personality and freedom of development, and on the basis of imparting knowledge, skills and values, let people develop freely and comprehensively and respect differences.
Characteristics of education
1, comprehensiveness: education is a social practice to cultivate people's all-round development, covering not only knowledge, skills, morality and culture, but also physical, psychological and emotional development.
2. Sociality: Education is a kind of social practice, involving all aspects of society. Its purpose is to cultivate talents who meet the needs of society and meet the needs of social development.
3. Sacred: Education covers from preschool education to higher education, from school education to non-school education. It is a complete system and should be realized through various channels and ways.
4. Progressiveness: Education is a process of gradual development and accumulation, which requires the continuous accumulation and improvement of knowledge and skills, as well as the gradual cultivation and improvement of comprehensive quality and ability.
5. Individualization: Education needs to pay attention to people's individual differences and diversity, and adopt different teaching methods and methods, so that every student can get personalized attention and training.
6. Science and technology: With the continuous progress and application of science and technology, education has become more and more scientific and technological. The popularization of modern educational technology and teaching methods has provided a broader development space for education and improved the quality and efficiency of education.