Education is the cause of cultivating talents, and the ultimate goal of school education is to train the younger generation to be successors who are fully developed morally, intellectually and physically and meet the needs of revolution and construction. The purpose of education is to lay the foundation for this goal.
The purpose of education is to cultivate people's overall goal. It is related to the fundamental question of what kind of social role and quality the educated should be trained to be. It is the starting point of educational practice. According to the needs of certain social productive forces, production relations and people's own development.
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.
Extended data:
The purpose of education is different from educational policy. Educational policy is the general requirement of educational work stipulated by the state according to political and economic requirements in order to achieve educational purposes. It is a general summary of the educational policy, and its contents include the guiding ideology of education, the overall specifications of cultivating talents and the basic ways to realize educational goals.
From this point of view, there is still a difference between the purpose of education and the way of education: the former focuses on answering the question of "what kind of people to train", while the latter answers the question of "how to train people" in addition to "what kind of people to train".
In addition, some scholars believe that "educational purpose" is a theoretical term and an academic concept, which belongs to the basic theoretical category of pedagogy; "Education policy" is a working term and a political concept, which belongs to the field of education policy. The purpose of education can be put forward by social groups or individuals and is not binding on educational practice. Education policy is usually put forward by the government or political parties, which is mandatory for educational practice.
Educational purpose is the core of the whole educational work, the starting point and destination of educational activities, and the fundamental basis for determining curriculum and teaching objectives, selecting educational content and methods, and evaluating educational effects. To sum up, the purpose of education has the functions of guidance, guidance, encouragement and evaluation.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Educational Purpose
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-education