It is relative that school education plays a leading role in human development, that is, the acquired factors of human development are mainly relative to the spontaneous social environment. School education itself is an integral part of the social environment, but school education is a special social environment. Why can school education play a leading role in the development of people, especially the development of the younger generation?
1. School education has a strong purpose.
Schools are institutions that specialize in training people, and almost all activities are carried out around training people purposefully. No matter what form or type of school education, it is impossible to have a basic idea and design for the specifications and quality of personnel training. The reason why the purpose of school education is relatively strong is mainly in the following two aspects. First of all, the purpose of school education is clear. Secondly, the purpose of school education is relatively unified. This shows that the purpose of school education is consistent with the requirement of social dominance, and the influence of school education in all aspects is consistent in the basic purpose. If the influence of all aspects of a school is fragmented in its basic purpose, students will be at a loss and distorted. Third, the purpose of school education is relatively stable. Although the purpose of school education changes with the development of the whole society, it must be relatively stable because of the inherent characteristics of human development and cultivation, otherwise education will fluctuate and sway excessively, thus damaging human cultivation.
2. School education is systematic.
The systematicness of school education is mainly manifested in the following four aspects. The first is planning. Generally speaking, school education is planned, not random and chaotic. Only planned educational work and educational influence can ensure the efficiency and effect of education, and the order and stage of human development also require school education to be planned. The second is organizational. Generally speaking, school education is more organized than spontaneous and disorderly. The school itself is an organization with various types and levels of organizational units, so school education is also carried out in and through organizations. School education must organize the loose educational influences inside and outside the school in time and space, and make them form a system and whole. The third is cooperation. Generally speaking, school education is relatively coordinated, not fragmented and conflicting. The influence of internal education in schools is also quite complicated, which is not only scattered in time and space, but also inconsistent or even conflicting due to the differences in educators' consciousness, attitude and level, as well as the intentional or unintentional driving and restriction of personal needs and interests. This requires the school to coordinate its internal influence and form an educational synergy that meets the requirements of educational purposes. In addition, school education can also coordinate the educational influence inside and outside the school. The fourth is comprehensiveness. Generally speaking, school education pursues comprehensive harmony. Generally speaking, school education is more qualified to implement comprehensive education than any other form of education. This is because the school education system has a more comprehensive educational purpose; Second, because school education has a comprehensive curriculum system and rich educational content; Third, because there are many ways and methods of school education; Fourth, because school education has a relatively complete and reasonable teacher structure. It should be pointed out that the comprehensiveness of education in different schools is different. For example, the comprehensiveness of general education and special education is different.
3. School education is highly selective.
The factors affecting people's development are complex, diverse and uncertain, which requires school education to select, sort out and process the complex and diverse educational influences, seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, discard the false and retain the true, discard the rough and select the fine, and create a good and harmonious small environment for the development of the younger generation as much as possible. Otherwise, school education will become spontaneous and chaotic. The selectivity of school education is mainly manifested in the following aspects. The first is the choice of education and training objectives. The society is constantly developing and changing, and so is the requirement of society for people's quality. Furthermore, the social hierarchy and structure are also complex and diverse, so the requirements for people's quality are also complex and diverse but not very consistent. The second is the choice of educational content. It is impossible and unnecessary for school education to convey all human cultures to the educated. Instead, we should choose the content that is more in line with the needs of social development and human development, as well as the characteristics and laws of human development, and pass it on to the educated. The third is the choice of educational methods, methods and means. The ways, methods and means of education are colorful and constantly developing and changing. Different educational contents and different educational objects often have endless demands on the forms, methods and means of education, which requires choices.
4. School education is professional.
Among all social institutions, school education is the most specialized in training people, although training people is not the "patent" of the school, nor is it the only function of the school. The particularity of school education is mainly manifested in the following three aspects. First of all, cultivating people is the basic function and central task of school education. The first reason why schools appear is that society needs to establish a place to train people. The first reason why schools exist is to train people. The first task of school function is to cultivate people, regardless of university, middle school and primary school. Secondly, there are relatively systematic and complete professional courses in school education. Curriculum is an educational content specially organized for learners' learning, with a series of requirements and norms. Not all educational contents can be called courses, but courses reflect the particularity of school education. Third, school education is mainly carried out by teachers who specialize in education. Teachers specialize in education and are professional educators, taking educating people as their own responsibility. Teachers are a profession, and teachers' work is a kind of specialization and professionalization, so teachers are also a kind of qualification. Not everyone can obtain this qualification, and everyone can engage in education. Teachers must be able to pass long-term and specialized training, have specialized subject knowledge and related knowledge, have basic educational theory knowledge and related ability, and have at least professional ethics.
One of the biggest differences between studying at school and studying at home, in society or at work is that students study at school under the guidance of teachers. It can be said that teachers are the most prominent embodiment of school education professionalism.
5. School education has a strong foundation.
From the perspective of lifelong education, all kinds of school education at all levels lay the foundation for the lifelong development of people at different levels. The foundation of school education is especially manifested in basic education, general education and general education, which has a "fixed tone" or even a "qualitative" education for people's life development and has a decisive impact on people's life development prospects and development potential. Even the educational content of professional knowledge in specialized schools is mostly a universal and basic part of a particular field. In a sense, all kinds of education at all levels are learning to be a man, to do things, to survive and to lay a foundation. Because of this, school education should face all students and promote their all-round development as much as possible; Because of this, modern education pays more and more attention to general education, generous foundation and expanding professional caliber. It is precisely because of its strong foundation that school education not only has immediate value to human development, but also has delayed, lasting and value-added value, thus playing a leading role in human development.