The theory of substantive education attaches importance to the practical function of teaching. Substantive education believes that the main task of general education should be to acquire valuable knowledge, and learning knowledge itself includes the cultivation of ability, and ability does not need special training.

His ideas came from Herbart in Germany and Spencer in England. Compared with formal education, substantive education holds that the main task of education is to enable students to acquire knowledge. It is the bourgeois educational theory about setting school curriculum and choosing teaching materials for general education.

Main viewpoints of substantive education theory

According to the theory of entity education, the main task of teaching is to teach students useful knowledge for life, such as physics, history, geography, astronomy, chemistry and law. As for students' intelligence, there is no need for special cultivation and training.

Substantive education holds that the main task of teaching should be to teach students useful knowledge for production and life, while the cultivation of ability is irrelevant. This is why they attach importance to mechanical technology and natural science knowledge.

Refer to the above? Baidu Encyclopedia-On Entity Education