First, improve the overall quality of mankind. Let all people be educated, so that all people can get some cultural and scientific knowledge. Through education, people can inherit the research results of predecessors and lay the foundation for promoting the progress of human civilization.

Second, mold the human soul. Human beings need education to guide right and wrong, good and evil. If people are not educated, people's concept of right and wrong may be the same as that of primitive people, or they may be no different from animals. In their view, robbery may be right. Because animals are a predatory world, they never talk about dedication, they only like plunder.

Third, tap the potential of human wisdom. Education can fully tap people's talents, fully tap people's potential, and make people's intelligence level reach their own limits, so that human beings can create greater value and contribute more to society.

4. An international student, studying abroad, playing with the country's money, the people support her, but she doesn't want to serve the country and repay the people. Instead, he made comments on the media platform, insulting the motherland and insulting the people, which caused extremely bad influence. It can be seen from this incident that the core of our education should be patriotism education and ideological and moral education.

The essence of education

1, superstructure theory holds that education is the superstructure of society. Reason: Education is a kind of ideological culture, and its nature and changes are determined by and serve the socio-economic foundation. Education is restricted by productivity, but it must be mediated by economic base.

2. Productivity theory. It is believed that education is productive force, education can produce labor force, and it is labor force reproduction; The development scale, speed, teaching content, means and form of education are restricted by productivity; Education is determined by relations of production, but all relations of production and superstructure are ultimately determined by productive forces.

3. Dual attribute theory. Education has both the attributes of productivity and superstructure.

4. Compound phenomenon theory. It is believed that the essence of education is "multi-quality", with the nature of superstructure and productivity, and has the functions of serving class struggle, developing economy, spreading culture and promoting human development.