1. aiming at all-round development: the fundamental task of socialist social education is to train all-round socialist builders, so aiming at all-round development is one of its most remarkable characteristics.
2. Political orientation: Socialist education is political education and must be carried out under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought. The goal of education is to cultivate socialist builders with communist ideological quality and moral demeanor.
3. Combination of universality, popularization and difference: socialist education should not only popularize education, but also carry out differentiated education for different classes and groups to meet the needs and requirements of different groups.
4. Combination of practicality and revolution: Socialist education must closely combine revolution with production practice, advocate practical education and production education, and cultivate socialist builders with revolutionary spirit and practical ability.
5. Combination of consciousness and freedom: Socialist education should respect people's dominant position, cultivate a personality of conscious learning, free innovation and independent development, so as to promote individual's all-round development and social progress.
6. Develop comprehensive quality: Socialist education should attach importance to the development of students' comprehensive quality, including the development of ideology, culture, aesthetics and sports.