The original sentence is like this: the essence of education is that one tree shakes another tree, one cloud pushes another cloud, and one soul awakens another soul.

"Education is a tree shaking another tree, and a cloud pushing another cloud" is taken from Jaspers' What is education (1977).

Extended data:

The main functions of education are:

(1) The primary function of education is to promote individual development, including individual socialization and individualization;

(2) The most basic function of education is to influence the change of social talent system and economic development. Modern society emphasizes that the economic function of education mainly includes: providing a good background for the sustained and stable development of the economy; Improve the potential labor ability of the educated; Form ideas, attitudes and behaviors that adapt to modern economic life;

(3) The social function of education is to cultivate talents for the development of the country and serve the political and economic development of the country.

(4) The most far-reaching function of education is to influence the development of culture. Education should not only convey culture, but also meet the requirements of the continuation and renewal of culture itself. ?

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