The purpose of China's education is based on the Marxist theory of all-round development of human beings, and it is proposed that education is mainly to cultivate socialist builders and successors with "ideals, morality, culture and discipline" and all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique and beauty.
China's educational policy: education must serve the socialist modernization, and must be combined with productive labor to cultivate builders and successors of the socialist cause with all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique.
Teaching is the basic way to achieve educational goals. Teaching is always instructive. Teaching is the central work of the school, and the school work must be based on education and arranged comprehensively. Curriculum is an important way to achieve educational goals, the most important basis for organizing educational and teaching activities, and the carrier to embody and reflect educational ideas and concepts. Therefore, curriculum is the core of education.
The purpose of education is to cultivate people's overall goal. It is related to the fundamental question of what kind of social role and quality the educated should be trained to be. It is the starting point of educational practice. According to the needs of certain social productive forces, production relations and people's own development.
Historically, it varies with different social systems, national cultural traditions and educational ideas. It has class nature in class society. The education in Athens, ancient Greece requires the cultivation of people with harmonious physical and mental development; Spartan education needs to cultivate brave and skilled people. China's feudal society demanded the cultivation of literati in Ming Dynasty.