The series of general education refers to the series of secondary and higher education, which is a continuation of compulsory education and enrolled by the state, and mainly carries out "full-time" academic education.

Vocational education refers to the education that instructs the educated to acquire the professional knowledge, skills and professional ethics needed by a certain occupation or productive labor.

2, belong to different

General education is divided into preschool education, primary education, junior high school education and senior high school education, including special education for disabled children, teenagers and young people and work-study education for supernormal students.

Vocational education includes general vocational middle school, vocational high school education, mechanic education and higher vocational education (higher vocational education is sometimes included in general higher education).

3. Different training purposes

The purpose of general education is to cultivate scientific research talents and cultivate people's moral quality.

The purpose of vocational education is to cultivate applied talents and workers with a certain cultural level and professional knowledge and skills. Compared with general education and adult education, vocational education pays more attention to the cultivation of practical skills and practical work ability.

Vocational education is the product of social development, the development of human civilization and the development of human beings. But also the product of a special period of development. Vocational education benefits from society, and society can also benefit from vocational education. Promoting social development is the proper meaning and sacred duty of vocational education.

The purpose of vocational education is to meet the employment needs of individuals and the objective needs of posts, so as to promote the development of social productive forces and accelerate the adjustment and transformation of national industrial structure.

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