The combination of education and productive labor means that the process of education and productive labor are inseparable and organically combined. Moore, a British humanist educator in the Renaissance, first proposed in his Republic that children should take part in agricultural production and labor while studying.
The British economist John Bells put forward the idea of combining education with manual labor for the first time in his proposal on establishing all useful labor colleges for handicrafts and agriculture, which has obvious characteristics of combining education with small production.
Owen, a utopian British socialist, put forward and expounded the idea of combining education with productive labor from the requirements of scientific and technological progress for the quality of workers, and made preliminary experiments, but it still has utopian nature.
The combination of education and productive labor is a universal law in the development of modern society and modern education. It is pointed out that it is not only a way to improve production, but also a way to transform the old society and cultivate people with all-round development to let children participate in quantitative productive labor and educate them intellectually, physically and technologically.
The significance of labor education
Through the combination of study and work, children can better grasp the connection between things. Labor can not only stimulate children's intellectual development, but also enable them to solve problems with their own wisdom. Through labor, they can experience the value of labor and cultivate innovative consciousness and thinking. Labor education can help children develop their intelligence and prepare for their future.
The true happiness of life comes from labor. One of the important tasks of school education is to make students understand and realize that a person's life and cultural richness are directly related to the labor he takes part in. Labor education should cultivate students' labor values by strengthening labor literacy.