Herbart calls all the aims and highest aims of education morality, and morality is generally regarded as the highest purpose of human beings, so it is also the highest purpose of education. Various interests are based on society, a possible or selective purpose, and an indirect or intentional purpose. Moral cultivation is the highest and necessary purpose, and the two are unified.

From the starting point of education, he respects human personality. "Even if he gives the purest and most successful description of human beings, this description will always be an explanation for special individuals." A real educator should try his best to avoid infringing on personality and make the distinct outline of personality appear.

Extended materials: Herbart is a pioneer in making pedagogy an independent science, an advocate of "education and teaching" and an inventor of teaching forms, which plays an important role in the history of modern western education.

Herbart clearly put forward the scientific problem of pedagogy. In his view, "pedagogy, as a science, is based on practical philosophy and psychology. The former explains the purpose of education; The latter explains the ways, means and obstacles of education. " He established the teleology of education on the basis of philosophy, the teaching theory on the basis of psychology and the moral education theory on the basis of ethics, thus laying the foundation of scientific pedagogy.

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Baidu encyclopedia-Herbart