Jay Donner Walters, an American scholar, first put forward the idea of "life education" in 1968, and began to practice the idea of life education in the "ananda Village" school he founded, which attracted worldwide attention. There is a compulsory course "health and happiness" in American primary and secondary schools, which is actually life education.

Importance of developing life education

Carrying out life education is the basic requirement to improve the overall quality of the people. Vigorously developing life education in primary and secondary schools is conducive to improving the survival skills and quality of life of young people and laying a solid foundation for the development of the country and the nation; It is beneficial to cultivate their brave, confident and strong character.

Carrying out life education is an urgent requirement for the development and change of social environment. Especially the teenagers who are in the long period of disintegration, their outlook on life and world has not been firmly established, and their physical impulses make them more easily captured by negative information psychologically. At this time, it is urgent to cultivate young people to form a scientific outlook on life, and then lay the foundation for them to establish a correct world outlook, outlook on life and values.

Carrying out life education is a necessary condition to promote the healthy growth of teenagers' body and mind. Because the confusion in the process of physiological development is often not guided in time, it is often difficult to deal with unpredictable and sometimes even hidden injuries, which leads to some students' psychological fragility, confusion and out-of-control behavior. Therefore, we should actively guide students to scientifically understand the laws of physiological and psychological development and correctly understand the phenomenon and significance of life.