Values education is the education that educators should pursue and practice in the affairs related to the educated. The content of core values education for primary and middle school students includes three parts: one is human values education, and the other is educational values education. The third is knowledge value education. The first part discusses that human value education should be completed by means of human nature education, moral quality education and life value education. The second part puts forward the educational propositions of "why education is useless" and "why education is useful". The third part discusses the education of knowledge and values, and points out that the education of knowledge and values has always emphasized the utilitarian value of knowledge, and then thinks that the education of knowledge and values should reflect the interest of cultivating students' interest in learning.