Answer: What is the essence of education? Dewey discussed the essence of education from different angles and aspects in his theory. His views on the essence of education can basically be summarized by three important arguments he put forward, namely, "education is growth", "education is life" and "education is the reorganization and transformation of experience". First of all, education is growth. Based on the theory of biological psychology, Dewey believes that children's psychological content is basically a process of continuous development and growth of natural psychological functions such as habits, emotions, impulsiveness and wisdom with instinctive activities as the core. From this perspective, education is the process of promoting instinctive growth. But Dewey's understanding of growth is the result of the interaction between organism and external environment, internal conditions and external conditions, and it is a continuous socialization process. "