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What is education? What is the purpose of education?
Education refers to social practice activities that affect people's physical and mental development. The purpose of education is to meet the overall requirements for the quality and specifications of the people to be trained, that is, to solve the problem of what kind of people to train and form a relatively perfect or rational conscious thinking.

Education is a kind of thinking teaching, and people have different thinking tendencies because of their own ideology. Therefore, education should educate people with the most objective and fair thinking, so that people's thinking will not be too biased, and gradually mature and rational because of the richness of thinking, so as to move towards the most rational self and have the most correct thinking cognition. This is the foundation of education.