As follows:
Educational content refers to the cultural sum of knowledge, skills, behavior norms, values, world outlook, etc. selected and brought in the process of educational activities to achieve educational goals. Educational content is generally embodied in the form of courses. The selection criteria are to meet the needs of society and individuals. In a broad sense, educational content includes school education content and non-school education content.
The educational content in a narrow sense refers to the content of school education. It has a social history and changes with the development of society. From the perspective of human development structure, it includes morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor. From the social structure, including politics, economy, culture, science and technology, military and so on.
The content of modern education is gradually expanding, and new educational contents that respond to contemporary world problems are constantly emerging, such as environment, peace and democracy, new economic order and population. The new values education includes mass media, leisure and tourism, modern economy and family, spirit or value philosophy, etc.
The essence of education refers to the fundamental characteristic that education, as a social activity, is different from other social activities, that is, the question of "what is education". It reflects the inherent provisions of educational activities, that is, the fundamental characteristics.
The purpose of education is put forward and formulated by people, which reflects people's subjective will. People have different values on education, so they have different views on the basis of educational purposes. On the theoretical level of general education, the core goal of education is to stimulate students' internal potential and make them develop optimally in all aspects.
In Chinese mainland, education must serve the socialist modernization, and must be combined with productive labor to cultivate builders and successors of the socialist cause with all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique.
Taiwan Province Province, China: The purpose of education is to cultivate people's sound personality, democratic literacy, concept of rule of law, humanistic accomplishment, strong physique, thinking, judgment and creativity, to promote respect for basic human rights, to protect the ecological environment and to understand and care for other countries, nationalities, genders, religions and cultures, and to modernize them with national consciousness and international vision.