"Life Education" absorbed Dewey's pragmatic education content, and also considered the background and national conditions of China at that time. It is a creative, absorbing and innovative educational thought. He paid attention to the cultivation of initiative and creativity, and played a positive role against the disadvantages of the old educational tradition in old China.

The theory of "life education" is the core of Mr. Chen Heqin's educational thought. This theory not only absorbs the correct proposition of "respecting children and attaching importance to practice" in Dewey's pragmatic education theory, but also advocates that children find problems by their own wisdom and independent thinking, learn knowledge and accumulate experience through doing.