Educational value refers to the usefulness or "utility" of educational activities, and it is people's view and evaluation of the usefulness of educational activities when they consciously master, utilize, accept and enjoy education. When people examine and judge the value of education, they always take certain interests and needs as the basis.

Education is the activity that people form themselves and the self-formation of people's values. The value of education lies in discovering, excavating, exerting, forming, guiding and limiting people's value. Spiritual value is the highest value of human beings, the fundamental difference between human values and other things, and its essence is the value of knowledge, ability and ideology. To form people's value through education is to form people's spiritual value through valuable knowledge, ability and moral education.