American scholar Jadon Walters. Jadon Walters' Life Education published in 1968 clearly put forward the idea of life education for the first time, and its core is to explore the educational essence of caring about people's growth and life health. Since then, the ideological trend of life education has begun to promote major changes in human educational concepts.

Life education is a kind of holistic education, which covers the whole process from birth to death and all aspects involved in this process. It is not only related to people's survival and life, to people's growth and development, but also to people's essence and value.