The purpose of education is to train the educated to become the general requirement of a certain social need. The purpose of education is determined according to the requirements of political, economic, production, cultural and scientific development of a certain society and the physical and mental development of the educated. It reflects the requirements of a certain society for the educated, is the starting point and ultimate goal of educational work, and is also the basis for determining educational content, selecting educational methods, and checking and evaluating educational effects.
The aims of education and teaching are universal and special. The purpose of education is the general requirement of what kind of talents the country trains, which reflects the general demand of social members for education. Teaching purpose is the requirement of realizing educational purpose in teaching field, which reflects the needs of teaching subjects. The purpose of education guides the purpose of teaching, and the purpose of teaching must obey the purpose of education.
Importance value
1. Modern education is a brand-new educational model in human history with the establishment of today's society, and it is also the product of the development of human social education in a certain historical period. It is the highest stage of education development so far, and it is also an extremely important stage of human education development.
2. Contemporary education in China began in the second half of19th century. From 65438 to 1960s, a large number of scholars with early reform ideas wrote books from Guangdong, advocating imitating western advanced technologies and rules and regulations, advocating reform through reform and transformation, realizing the prosperity of the motherland, and promoting the atmosphere of learning and training western professional knowledge.
3. It reflects the requirements of a certain society for learners, is the starting point and ultimate goal of education-related work, and is also the basis for determining teaching content, selecting educational concepts, and checking and evaluating teaching effects.
4. The educational goal stipulates the core direction of school moral education and students' growth, is the fundamental guiding ideology of running a school, is the overall direction of students' growth, is the starting point and destination of school education and teaching, and restricts the whole process. Schools can only run schools according to the educational objectives, otherwise they will deviate from the correct direction of running schools.