The nature and content of life determine the nature and content of education. In this regard, Tao Xingzhi said: "What kind of life have you lived and what kind of education have you received?" Therefore, education should take life as the center, proceed from life, educate for life and educate in life.

2. Education reacts on life, not only can't transform life.

Since education comes from life, it will have a negative effect on life. Tao Xingzhi believes that education should serve life, should be driven by promoting the forward development of life, and should run education for the needs of life.

Life and education are always the same.

Every one of us will have a life if we have a life, and there will be education if we have a life. Therefore, "life education is innate and walks with life." Born in disgrace, he graduated in a coffin. "Visible, to truly realize" life is education ",the most important thing is to make people form the habit of continuous learning. It is based on the educational thought that "life is education" that Tao Xingzhi later put forward the concept of lifelong education.

Education and life are the same process, education is contained in life, and education can only play a role if it is combined with life. Education is based on life, and education that is not combined with real life is not real education. Tao Xingzhi resolutely opposes the death of education, schools and books without "taking life as the center".

It should be noted that "education" mentioned by Tao Xingzhi is not a narrow sense education with schools as a whole, but a broad sense education of the whole social life including school education.

Tao Xingzhi's "life" is the sum of the whole nature and human social life, and it is the floorboard of all human practical activities. "Life is education" does not mean that life is equal to education, but that education and life are the same process. Education cannot be separated from life, and life cannot be separated from education.