Herbart (1776- 184 1) is a famous German educator, and his educational thoughts have had a great influence on modern western education. Herbart founded a complete education system based on modern psychology, so in the history of western education, some people praised him as the founder of science pedagogy. Herbart's educational thoughts are various. "Education and teaching" is one of the important aspects, which has a far-reaching impact on the development of modern education. There are always problems of moral cultivation and knowledge transmission in education and teaching. Socrates, an ancient Greek philosopher, put forward the proposition that "virtue is knowledge", and this issue has become an eternal hot topic since then. However, there are always different opinions about which is more important, moral education and intellectual education, and how to combine them. Even the expression of this concept is often one-sided and vague. It was not until the beginning of19th century that Herbart systematically expounded this issue, and clearly put forward the concept of "education and teaching" for the first time, taking it as a basic principle of teaching, and the research on this issue took a new turn. Herbart believes that the cultivation of moral quality is the highest goal of education, but while achieving this goal, moral cultivation and knowledge imparting constitute two basic contents of school education, forming two basic ways to implement school education, namely, cultivating moral sentiment through emotional and will training; Be inspired by imparting systematic knowledge. (There are 3 in this article,