"Educator" and "educated" are two fundamentally different concepts. The former belongs to the category of practice and is a practitioner or doer; The latter belongs to the theoretical category and is a theorist or scientist. Specifically, from the perspective of the object of activities, educators often face people who need to be trained and shaped, while educators often face the whole educational phenomenon and accumulated cognitive achievements in society; From the process of activities, it is impossible for an educator to be independent of educational practice at any time, but there must be some tension between an educator and educational practice, that is, he can fully participate in it or become an observer without practical activities; Judging from the results of activities, the "product" of educators is usually the educated, while the "product" of educators is usually the spirit.

The relationship between educators and educatees

"Educator" and "educated" are related. Educators should not only have outstanding educational achievements, but also have their own unique educational experience and ideas. If an educator can study educational theory, explore educational laws, raise his own experience and thoughts to the form of theory and write a book, then he will have the role of an educator. Such as makarenko, Suhomlinski and Li Jilin. Similarly, an educator can be called an educator, such as Dewey and Tao Xingzhi, if he is not only satisfied with the establishment of educational theory and doctrine, but also engages in educational practice in person and applies the new educational theory to educational practice and achieves remarkable results.