Simply put, education is "educating people". What kind of people to educate and how to educate them are the watershed of different educational factions. Some say that "the ultimate goal of education is to cultivate independent and self-disciplined learners", some say that "education is ultimately self-education", some say "preaching, teaching and dispelling doubts", Suhomlinski says that "the ultimate goal of education should be to convey the breath of life to people" and Tagore says "to cultivate students' thrilling feelings in the face of a bunch of wild chrysanthemums".

Rousseau has a famous argument: education is growth. Dewey further explained: This means that growth is an end in itself, and there is no other purpose before growth, such as adapting to society and achieving something in the future. This sentence brilliantly reveals the essence of education. According to this view, education should make everyone's nature and innate ability grow healthily, instead of forcing teenagers to accept foreign things. For example, intellectual education is to cultivate curiosity and independent thinking ability, not to instill knowledge; Moral education encourages lofty spiritual pursuit, not instilling norms. Education should make the educated feel that learning is happy and meaningful at school and create a good foundation for a happy and meaningful life. In a word, education is human learning, and the ultimate goal is to make people happy.