Modern education is a brand-new form of education in human history. With the formation of modern society, it is also the product of the development of human society and education to a certain historical stage. It is the highest stage of education development so far, and it is also a very important stage of human education development.

Modern education in China began in the second half of19th century. Since the 1960s, a group of intellectuals with early reform ideas have written books in Guangdong, advocating imitating advanced western technologies and systems, promoting the prosperity of the country through improvement and reform, and advocating the atmosphere of learning western knowledge.

Different people have different definitions of the concept of modern education. Some people define modern education as "educational concept, form and characteristics suitable for modern production system, modern economic system, modern cultural system, modern science and technology and modern social lifestyle" from the external conditions. Some people look at the problem from the internal factors and define it as "the activity of educators to socialize the educated into people who can adapt to the modern society in which modern productive forces and production relations are unified."

Taken together, modern education can be expressed as: "In the historical period from the development of capitalist big industry and commodity economy to the complete realization of communism, we are committed to combining with productive labor and cultivating all-round development of people's education." This definition attempts to reveal the commonness of modern education.

In fact, cultural traditions, social systems and modern society at different stages of development will express and realize this commonality with their own unique personalities. In this sense, capitalist modern education and socialist modern education, British modern education and American modern education have both common trends and different characteristics. Modern education is a complex, diverse and dynamic concept of integration and unity.

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