The purpose of education is to educate people, and it is the responsibility of education to cultivate real people and all-round people. For all schools, teaching is the central task, but it is not an end but a means. The fundamental task of schools is to educate people. German educator Herbart pointed out that without moral education, teaching is just a means without purpose. Without teaching, moral education is the purpose without means. The concrete implementation of teachers' professional behavior is to cultivate, shape and transform people through teachers' labor and promote their all-round development.

The process of education starts from a person's birth and lasts for a lifetime, bringing lasting and profound changes to people. Some people even think that education can start earlier. Some parents influence the growing fetus in the uterus through external words and music, and carry out prenatal education, hoping to give their children a positive and healthy development.

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The word "education" comes from Mencius' "cultivating talents in the world" Latin educare is the source of the word "education" in the west, which means "education". Society chooses talents according to their education level. People realize the change of social status through education. Education comes into being with the emergence of human society, develops with the development of society, and always accompanies human society.

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Education can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense.

Education in a broad sense refers to all social practice activities that purposefully affect people's physical and mental development.

Education in a narrow sense refers to specially organized education, that is, school education, which includes not only full-time school education, but also half-time and amateur school education, correspondence education, publishing education, radio schools and television schools.

According to the reality and future needs of a certain society, it is an activity to guide the educated to acquire knowledge and skills, cultivate ideology and morality, develop intelligence and physical strength, follow the law of physical and mental development of the younger generation, train the educated to adapt to the needs of a certain society (or class) and promote social development.

The main functions of education are:

(1) The primary function of education is to promote individual development, including individual socialization and individualization;

(2) The most basic function of education is to influence the change of social talent system and economic development. Modern society emphasizes that the economic function of education mainly includes: providing a good background for the sustained and stable development of the economy; Improve the potential labor ability of the educated; Form ideas, attitudes and behaviors that adapt to modern economic life;

(3) The social function of education is to cultivate talents for the development of the country and serve the political and economic development of the country.

(4) The most far-reaching function of education is to influence the development of culture. Education should not only convey culture, but also meet the requirements of the continuation and renewal of culture itself.