1. The idea that education runs through a person's life has existed at all times and in all countries. Such as Confucius in China and early Islam.
2. 18- 19 At the end of the year, the idea of lifelong education was extended to adult society, and the representatives were Moore and Owen.
Since the 20th century, more and more attention has been paid to adult education. 19 19, the United Kingdom held a conference on adult education, pointing out that education is a lifelong process for people, and they can still receive education at the age of 80. The representative figure of this period in China is Tao Xingzhi.
4. The implementation of modern lifelong education thought began in 1965, by the French educator Paul? Proposed by lengrand. 1965 an international conference on promoting adult education was held in Paris, and Paul, head of lifelong education of UNESCO, was discussed and approved. Lungeland's suggestion on lifelong education. 1968 UNESCO issued the Declaration on Lifelong Education. From 65438 to 0972, UNESCO published Learn to Live: Today and Tomorrow in Education, which confirmed Lungeland's theory of lifelong education.
In the thought of lifelong education, the meaning of the word "lifelong" is not only a continuous process from birth to death in time, but also influenced by various aspects in space, which maintains and restricts people's social attributes. And pay attention to a spiritual life, and work hard for people's reality and future happiness and perfection. In students' survival, the goal is to cultivate "perfect people" and the value pursuit is "scientific humanism". This connotation makes the lifelong education theorists criticize the existing education from different aspects, and also makes the lifelong education thought construct from these aspects, thus making the lifelong education thought become the organizational principle of constructing a continuous and unified lifelong education system.
The lifelong education and the "unschooling movement" in this period criticized and reformed traditional education fiercely and spared no effort. From the development history of human thought, they are all radical and revolutionary. The idea of lifelong education has brought people into a broader educational thinking space and put forward a series of new concepts such as lifelong education, learning society and lifelong learning. This is the spiritual wealth brought by a new idea. Like other educational thoughts, it has obvious idealistic characteristics when describing the future society and education to people.
It is precisely because of this character that lifelong education has become a symbol of contemporary educational spirit, which promotes the development and progress of mankind, comprehensively improves the quality of people in modern society, and then reaches the realm of learning society.
Secondly, lifelong education affirms the original educational forms and methods, and constructs a new educational system on this basis as far as possible, which embodies the constructive characteristics of lifelong education thought in reality.
The idea of lifelong education is not to deny the tradition blindly and go to extremes, but to keep the original educational achievements as much as possible and recombine many different parts with a more realistic principle to make them continuous and unified. The principles and suggestions of lifelong education are mostly provided to governments, educational institutions, educational organizations and groups from all walks of life, who are working hard to build a "learning society". The early theories and viewpoints of lifelong education did not get rid of the influence of the thinking mode of countries all over the world in 1950s and 1960s, which hoped to increase investment in education, reform existing education and provide educational opportunities for more people. Its reality or conservatism makes it lack of linking education with learning and understanding educational activities from the two-way interaction between the educated and learners. Therefore, the evolution from lifelong education to lifelong learning is inevitable. On the whole, the concept of lifelong education always pays attention to the possibility of reality, so that its development is gradual and steady in theory and practice.