1. Broadening people's knowledge is to enlighten people's wisdom, broaden people's knowledge and better understand their identity, social and natural existence. Through the process of enlightenment, people can explore various phenomena and laws from different angles, increase their knowledge, improve their critical thinking ability, and constantly revise their own understanding on the road of life.
2. Cultivate people's values. Education is an important way to spread human values. Through the process of enlightenment, people can correctly understand the values and rights of themselves and others, form a positive attitude towards life and values, and improve their moral quality and social responsibility. On the contrary, lack of education often leads to negative thoughts and behaviors, and even harms society and mankind.
The difference between enlightenment and education
Different definitions. Education refers to the process of influencing and cultivating the ideas, knowledge, skills and morality of the educated according to certain purposes and methods; Education refers to making people gradually understand and accept certain moral concepts and behavior norms through words and deeds, thus changing behavior habits and improving moral standards.
Different purposes. The purpose of education is to cultivate people's ability and quality to meet the needs of social development; The purpose of education is to guide people to do good, improve the moral level of the whole society and promote social harmony and stability.
Different ways. Education is systematic and normative, and usually needs to be implemented through specialized educational institutions and teachers; Education pays more attention to nature and practicality, and more influences others through their own words and deeds in life.
Function of education
Macroscopically: Enlightenment? The power to win people's hearts. In the Confucian model of politics and religion, politics can only be carried out by means of enlightenment. Therefore, there is an absolute advantage in enlightenment. "Good governance is not as good as good education. Good administrators fear it, while good educators love it. Good governance gains people's wealth, and good education wins people's hearts "(Mencius, p. 2765), which just illustrates this truth.
Compared with reasonable education, good teaching has unlimited advantages, mainly in the degree of "winning the hearts of the people"; Although good governance can also "increase the people and enrich the people", people are afraid of it. Good teaching is loved by the people, so it can win their praise. Therefore, a good education plays an incomparable role in rallying people's hearts.