For a long time, although China's educational works have not publicly declared that intellectual education is equal to education, in the related works of pedagogy or educational principles, we often only have the parallel arrangement of "teaching" and D moral education, physical education, aesthetic education and other chapters, but there is no intellectual education chapter.

Intellectual education and education are overlapping concepts. Intellectual education is juxtaposed with moral education, physical education and aesthetic education, forming a complete educational content framework. Their superior concept or general concept is "education".

It is not only wrong in theory, but also easy to cause confusion in practice to equate these two overlapping concepts completely.