Of course, education is not only about cultivating emperors or monarchs, but also the general government members are mostly the result of school education. In ancient China, it was advocated that "learning to be excellent is to be an official". The ranks of officials at all levels in Sui, Tang and even the late Qing Dynasty were basically selected by school education through the imperial examination. Most politicians in western countries come from famous middle schools or universities.
For example, several public schools in Britain, although private, undertake the mission of training public officials for the future society. Most British prime ministers graduated from Oxford and Cambridge universities.
The development of various undertakings in modern society is changing with each passing day, and the social structure and political activities are becoming increasingly complex, which requires that governance talents at all levels of society should have basic scientific and cultural level and higher political and legal literacy. Education plays a particularly prominent role in cultivating and training governance talents, and its task is particularly arduous. Although it is not the only purpose of modern education to cultivate and bring up social governance talents, it is also an unshirkable and important task.
2. Educate and train qualified citizens. With the emergence of the western "nation-state" political form and the continuous progress of the industrial revolution, modern education began to develop to the stage of popularization. Social changes such as national and ethnic identity, universal suffrage and production demand all put forward the task of cultivating qualified citizens to education.
Hegel pointed out that "educating people, not citizens, is doomed to failure, because such people are unfamiliar with the law." Such people may go beyond the boundaries of the law and do whatever they want, and their words and deeds will not follow the "universal characteristics of things." Such people are also uneducated people.
Educated people first refer to "people who can do what others do without showing their particularity". Education is to cultivate such "educated" citizens. James bryce once described the situation in South America like this: "Education, if not making people become good citizens, at least makes it easier for people to become good citizens."
3. Educate and disseminate political awareness and advocate mainstream political values. Schools are places to publicize and spread culture. A certain social culture embodies the political requirements and thoughts of society. Therefore, through the propaganda and dissemination of culture, the school gradually makes the social orthodoxy mastered by a few people known to the broad masses of the people.
Moreover, the educator's preaching is persuasive, which not only makes the educated understand this idea, but more importantly, makes them believe it. In modern society, the concepts of democracy and equality have become the mainstream ideas, and the role of education in spreading the ideas of democracy and equality has received special attention.
In the process of promoting social and political democratization and cultivating citizens' awareness and habits of democracy and equality, the role of education is extremely important and obvious, although it is not fundamental.
Extended data:
Pedagogy is a science that studies educational phenomena and problems and reveals educational laws.
Education is an activity to cultivate people. Since there were human beings, there has been education. And since there have been educational activities, people have known about educational activities. When people's understanding of education transcends the level of experience and customs and forms a systematic and scientific rational understanding, education becomes the "learning" of education. Therefore, it is a discipline that reveals the laws of education through the study of educational phenomena and problems.
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