People also have the following different views on the understanding of modern education: 1. Specific concepts. Especially Dewey's educational theory. Modern education advocates taking children's activities as the center, so that school education is closely linked with children's lives. The second kind refers to the education corresponding to modern society (based on machine production). Third, the concept corresponding to traditional education. Modern education mainly refers to the educational ideas, forms and characteristics that adapt to modern society, modern production system, modern economic system, modern cultural system, modern science and technology and modern social lifestyle, which are manifested in educational ideas, systems, management systems, contents, ways and methods that need to be advocated and applied in modern times. Modern education is a brand-new form of education in human history. With the formation of modern society, it is also the product of the development of human society and education to a certain historical stage. It is the highest stage of teaching development so far, and it is also a very important stage of human education development. Modern education in China began in the second half of19th century. Since modern times, Guangdong, because of its special geographical location and humanistic environment, has become the first place where western learning spread to the east and a bridge between Chinese and western cultures. Since the 1960s, a group of intellectuals with early reform ideas have written books in Guangdong, advocating imitating advanced western technologies and systems, promoting the prosperity of the country through improvement and reform, and advocating the atmosphere of learning western knowledge. Western education gradually took shape in Guangdong, which played a very important role in promoting the educational reform and opening up the people's wisdom in the late Qing Dynasty, and also promoted the emergence and development of Guangdong's reform thought. He Ziyuan, Qiu and other founders of modern education in China are participants and witnesses in this history. Today, more than one hundred years later, we can still feel the shock brought by the modern "educational innovation" of He Ziyuan and others to the historical process of modern China.