The basic principles that comparative education research must adhere to include: the principle of connection, the principle of development, the principle of noumenon and the principle of practicality.

First, through the comparative study of education in various countries, we can broaden our horizons, increase our knowledge and deepen our understanding of China's education system and work. Through comparative study, we can learn the successful experience and failure lessons of foreign education, provide reference for China's educational reform, and provide basis and reference for China's educational decision-making and educational reform.

Secondly, through the comparative analysis of educational phenomena in different social, political, economic and cultural environments, we can find those decisive factors that are more basic and will not show fundamental differences because of different external environments, thus providing important clues and basis for revealing the qualitative stipulation of education behind educational phenomena, that is, understanding the essence of education.

Thirdly, as an intermediary cultural form of "comparative culture", comparative education plays a major role in the exchange and cooperation between educational theories of different nationalities and countries.

Comparative pedagogy:

Comparative pedagogy is to study the education of different countries, nationalities and regions in the world from the viewpoint and method of Marxism, using the viewpoint and method of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, and comprehensively applying relevant new science and technology; On the basis of discussing their respective economic, political, philosophical and national traditional characteristics, this paper studies some common characteristics, development laws and general trends of education, and makes a scientific prediction.

In order to give full play to the best role of education according to the national characteristics and the specific situation of the country and serve to improve the quality of education and the people's cultural and scientific level. A new branch of educational science. There are different opinions about what comparative education is. Most scholars of comparative education believe that we should study the major international education problems in the development of world education from the reality of each country, rather than conceiving a formal theoretical system with no practical significance from an abstract definition.