Makarenko has created a miracle in the history of education, and the secret of his success is collective education. Makarenko believes that school educators can't educate students individually in turn, and educators must rely on the collective strength of students to complete the task of education. He called on educators to establish a good student collective as soon as possible, so that the student collective can also become a force for educating all students.

He simply described the principle of collectivism education as "in the collective, through the collective and for the collective", also called "the principle of parallel education".

Developing collective teaching;

The development of group teaching has gone through a long process, which is the product of denying traditional collective teaching. Ancient collectivization teaching, such as imperial academy in Han Dynasty and Academy in Song Dynasty, is the embryonic form of collectivization teaching. There is no fixed class, the age, level and progress of students are not exactly the same, and the teaching content does not present a systematic and serialized form.

But it has the characteristics of collective teaching, that is, teachers teach the same content to multiple students at the same time. It existed as an auxiliary form of individual teaching in ancient times.