Schiller was a famous German poet, writer, philosopher, historian and playwright in the18th century. Schiller created a large number of works in his life, most of which are literary works. Schiller also published an aesthetic paper "On Aesthetic Education of Human Beings", which discussed his aesthetic thoughts.

Aesthetic education is also called aesthetic education. That is, by cultivating people's ability to know beauty, experience beauty, feel beauty, appreciate beauty and create beauty, people will have beautiful ideals, good sentiments, good character and good cultivation.

In a narrow sense, aesthetic education is defined as "art education" in the extreme sense. Its general definition is: aesthetic education refers to "aesthetic education", "aesthetic education", "aesthetic appreciation and aesthetic literacy education". Aesthetic education in a broad sense, some people think: "The real aesthetic education is the education formed by infiltrating aesthetic principles into the teaching of various disciplines."

Schiller's aesthetic thought holds that the ultimate goal of social and cultural development is to establish a complete human nature, denying the substitution of rationality or interests for the complete existence of human beings, and highlighting and strengthening the non-utility and freedom and independence of aesthetic activities.

Schiller put forward the idea of aesthetic education, which not only educates people with aesthetic activities, but also regards aesthetic activities as the basic (only) way to restore or realize the complete existence of people, which is the core of Schiller's aesthetic thought. Schiller advocates achieving the goal through aesthetic education, while Marx advocates achieving the goal through the practical activities of social revolution and production revolution.