Note: Suhomlinski discussed the purpose of education from many angles, and put forward "cultivating communist builders", "cultivating all-round development people", "smart people", "happy people" and "qualified citizens" and so on. One of the most concentrated and profound viewpoints is to train teenagers to be "people with all-round and harmonious development and active participants in social progress."
To cultivate this kind of person, it is necessary to realize the educational task of all-round development, that is, to make "intellectual education, physical education, moral education, labor education and aesthetic education penetrate and interweave with each other, so that these aspects of education present a unified and complete process."
Regarding moral education, he clearly pointed out that "the core of harmonious and all-round development is noble morality". He particularly emphasized that students should have rich spiritual life and spiritual needs, and thought that "spiritual emptiness is the most terrible disaster for people". Teachers and parents are required to respect children's personality and care for them comprehensively. He said, "If someone asks me, what is the most important thing in life? I can answer' love children' without hesitation. "
He put forward the idea of "let every student walk with his head held high", trying to create a good educational environment and "let the school walls speak". He also pointed out that love is not equal to unprincipled doting, and children should be required by strict discipline and moral norms, and the moral quality of students should be cultivated through collective education.