If you want to live a happy life, you must receive education. Through education, I learned knowledge, cultivated my ability, increased my wisdom, acquired professional skills, entered the labor market to participate in the distribution of wealth, and became a vested interest of a certain social class, thus getting the material life I wanted. Obviously, education has the characteristics of "tool" and is an important "tool" for us to obtain happiness. In ancient times, there was a saying that "everything is inferior, only reading is high" and "learning to be excellent is an official". There is "reading changes fate" in modern times, which shows the "instrumental" characteristics of education.
In addition, through education, we can improve our cognitive level, expand the breadth and depth of our thinking, and deepen our thinking about the meaning of life. Keep asking, "Who am I? Where is the land I come from? In the process of going there, I understood the multiple values of life and formed a correct outlook on life and values. Look at problems more rationally in spirit and value, and get spiritual and emotional satisfaction, thus forming a full spiritual world, a meaningful world and a happy life growth. Material wealth does not necessarily bring happy emotional experience, only the common satisfaction from material to spirit can produce truly happy emotional experience.
Therefore, the interaction between the two major functions of education, namely "tool" function and "value" function, can realize the ultimate goal of education. Let's talk about the goal of education from the narrow concept of education for the time being. It is natural that the instrumentality of education makes it aim at utility. However, at present, the utilitarianism of education in China has alienated the instrumental function, magnified and extreme the instrumental function of education, and put instrumental rationality above value rationality, which needs to be corrected.
The utilitarian tendency of education obscures the all-round development of students, disturbs the educational process, gives birth to educational overload, and causes educational anxiety of all parties. For the sake of grades and enrollment rate, some deformed inspirational slogans came into being: "As long as you don't learn to die, learn from the dead", "Increase 1 kill thousands of people" and so on. The "output" of education may be an "exquisite egoist" without ideals and beliefs. Without a sense of social responsibility, the maximization of personal interests is their only motivation, which is extremely harmful to social progress and development. Education can't just be a "high score diploma", as long as the starting point is not the end; Education can not only play the role of individual economic benefits, talent selection efficiency and social resource allocation; Education should not only pay attention to the results but despise the process connotation; Education can't be vicious circle in the competition of comparison.
In fact, "utilitarian" people will not have a happy life. It is difficult to stop the pursuit of utility under the urging of desire, and the rising new desire is always "present continuous tense" The value of life needs a "dream" and a little "higher quality than daily necessities". It must be corrected to emphasize the "instrumentality" of education and ignore the "value" of education, because it hinders the realization of the ultimate goal of education. The utilitarian tendency of education is the reflection of the instrumentalization of social education concepts in the field of education in China, and it is the "collusion" of all social members, which cannot be attributed to a certain professional group. The collective reflection and action of the whole society can correct the direction of education, realize the ultimate goal of education and improve the quality of happy life.