Nowadays, most primary and middle school students do mental work, such as attending classes, doing homework and taking exams, but what is extremely lacking is manual work. Of course, it goes without saying that students focus on learning. But "learning" here is not only learning mathematics, physics, literature, history and philosophy, but also including necessary and appropriate labor education content. Judging from the current educational curriculum arrangement, there is obvious danger of emphasizing one thing over the other, and labor education is declining. Primary and secondary school students are generally caught in the mountains and seas. After the completion of normal education hours, many students have to make up lessons on weekends. By the graduation examination stage, labor education has been pushed to the edge. Moreover, there is no assessment standard for labor education, which is dispensable for primary and secondary school students.
In fact, labor education is as important to the growth of primary and secondary school students as knowledge education. Through labor education, let students experience the hardships of labor, feel the happiness of labor, and develop the will to bear hardships and stand hard work; Can let students broaden their horizons, increase their knowledge and cultivate a pair of skillful hands in skilled labor; It can help students relax, strengthen their physique and eliminate fatigue caused by excessive mental work. At present, China's educational forces oppose "exam-oriented education" and advocate "quality education". Labor education aims at improving students' quality, which should be the meaning of "quality education".