Principles of public welfare in education:

The public welfare of compulsory education is the stipulation of the value orientation of compulsory education, that is, the implementation of compulsory education system and activities is not to realize the self-interest of specific actors, institutions or social systems, but to realize the interests of the whole society. Public welfare is not only the normative feature of compulsory education, but also the factual feature of compulsory education, which is the unity of normative and factual.

To understand the connotation of public welfare of compulsory education, we should grasp the fairness, non-profit and non-competition of compulsory education. The non-profit and non-competitiveness of compulsory education comes from public welfare. Under the premise of ensuring the basic nature of public welfare of compulsory education, natural persons and other social organizations outside the government provide services in the compulsory education stage, which is conducive to expanding the supply of degrees and satisfying educational choices. However, this kind of participation cannot be profit-making and competitive, otherwise it will not only violate the public welfare of compulsory education, but also lead to the destruction of compulsory education ecology.

In order to ensure the full realization of the public welfare of compulsory education, it is first necessary to clarify the main responsibilities of party committees and governments at all levels. Compulsory education is a basic project related to the national quality and the future development of the country. Party committees and governments at all levels should deeply understand and effectively protect the public welfare of compulsory education, provide sufficient resources, and clearly assume the main responsibility for ensuring the public welfare of compulsory education, and cannot push this main responsibility to the market or push it to the market in disguise.