Educational consultation is a systematic discipline serving educational decision-making. Its purpose is to better provide theoretical guidance for educational consultation activities, solve theoretical and practical problems encountered in educational consultation activities, and help reduce mistakes in educational administrative decision-making. It is a comprehensive frontier discipline that studies the consulting phenomenon, the essence and general laws of consulting activities that are ubiquitous in all levels of education.
Because of the unique organizational characteristics of educational organizations, it is impossible to solve the problems completely by drawing lessons from enterprise consulting, so it is possible to study the system theory of educational consulting and even educational consulting.