From the perspective of running a school, the national education system focuses on improving the overall quality of the people, especially the basic ability literacy of the people. Lifelong education, on the other hand, is based on the idea of lifelong learning, which can promote everyone's career development and personal lifelong learning, so that every member of society can continue to learn throughout his life to meet various learning needs at all stages of his life. 2 1 century education must be extended to lifelong education and lead to a bright future. No matter how old you are, you should have the opportunity to learn new skills.
From the characteristics of running a school, the lifelong education system emphasizes the lifelong nature and flexibility of human education from the perspective of human development, which transcends the stage and institutionalized education form of the national education system and is therefore more inclusive.
From the main content, the main component of the national education system is the school education system, that is, the school education based on a specific form of education. So it mainly refers to preschool education, nine-year compulsory education, high school education and university education. Lifelong education system is an extension of the national education system in space and time, including vocational training, community education, leisure education, etc. It is a comprehensive and coordinated system that runs through people's early childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age.
As far as the school-running system is concerned, the lifelong education system includes not only the institutionalized national education system organized by the state, other social organizations and individuals according to the national education development plan, but also the non-institutionalized education forms of autonomy, voluntariness, freedom and even self-help.
When talking about the construction of lifelong education system, the Outline of Education Planning emphasizes the need to make the modern national education system more perfect, which reflects the profound understanding of the important role of perfecting the national education system in the construction of lifelong education system.