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Characteristics of educational purpose
The balance of educational purposes has two basic meanings. First, a good educational purpose should not only face the past, inherit and preserve the spiritual and cultural heritage of mankind in the past, especially let the younger generation acquire the knowledge system of various disciplines created and discovered by mankind, but also face the reality, train workers in all walks of life according to the needs of various fields and departments in the current society, and also face the future, train unknown new people for the unknown society, and train leaders and promoters of social civilization and progress. Secondly, a good educational purpose should keep a proper balance between knowledge and character, reason and emotion, science and humanities, developing individuality and undertaking social obligations, and cultural inheritance and creation. For example, in the early 1980s, a research group headed by Professor John I. Goodrider of UCLA divided the purpose or goal of school education into four areas in its research report "A Place Called School", namely, intellectual goals, including acquiring knowledge, mastering basic learning skills and developing governance. The goals of vocational education include understanding social occupation and its relationship with self, mastering practical skills, and developing good professional habits and positive work attitudes. The goals of social and civic education include understanding interpersonal relationships, the operation of various social organizations and government agencies, democratic procedures, national history and cultural traditions, cultivating social obligations and sense of responsibility, and forming good moral quality; Personal development goals include personal physical and mental health, creativity and aesthetic expression, self-realization and so on. Balanced characteristics of the above four target areas. This is even more obvious.