The combination of education and productive labor means that the process of education and productive labor are inseparable and organically combined. Moore, a British humanist educator in the Renaissance, first proposed in his Republic that children should take part in agricultural production and labor while studying.

The British economist John Bells put forward the idea of combining education with manual labor for the first time in his proposal on establishing all useful labor colleges for handicrafts and agriculture, which has obvious characteristics of combining education with small production.

Marx and Engels analyzed the relationship between modern education and modern society according to the principles of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, and pointed out that the combination of education and productive labor is the universal law of the development of modern society and modern education.

It is pointed out that it is not only a way to improve production, but also a way to transform the old society and cultivate people with all-round development to let children participate in quantitative productive labor and educate them intellectually, physically and technologically.

basic concept

1. Education is a social and historical phenomenon, with distinct class nature in class society, and there is no education divorced from social influence.

2. Education originated from social productive labor, and changes in the mode and nature of labor will inevitably lead to changes in the form and content of education.

The purpose of modern education is to promote the all-round development of students.

4. The combination of modern education and modern mass production labor is not only an important way to develop social productive forces, but also the only way to cultivate people with all-round development.