"Education must be combined with productive labor" is a basic principle of socialist school education. However, this principle has not been well implemented in our school education for a long time. Without social life and the combination of escape and productive labor, students can't really go deep into social practice and experience the colorful real society. They are more likely to gather in schools to study books and dogmatism. "pedantic" learning style, lost the initiative of learning activities, so that our school education lost vitality and vitality.

Although the students we have trained have a relatively comprehensive and complete subject knowledge system, it is an indisputable fact that students' practical ability, practical operation ability and innovation ability are generally not high or strong. We say that the whole function of knowledge is to be effectively applied to various social practices; Moreover, if any existing knowledge is not fully used in practice, it will lose its value as knowledge and will not automatically produce new and useful knowledge. From this perspective, if school education is divorced from social practice and does not pay attention to the combination with productive labor, students can only learn static knowledge in books.

For students, what they learn from books at school is only the "preparation stage" of "acquiring ability"; A person's "real talent and practical learning" should be gradually acquired in practice and in the process of solving practical problems by using what he has learned. Only in practice can we get the wisdom to solve practical problems. And this is very important for a person who is determined to devote himself to his career.

We say that a person's knowledge gained in school must be re-examined by social practice and must go through a process of "deconstruction" and "reconstruction" before it can really play its role. Without such a process, any owner of book knowledge can't really adapt to society, practice society and benefit society. This is the essence of "education must be combined with productive labor". Therefore, those teachers and learners who despise "education must be combined with productive labor" actually don't know what kind of education is really useful to life. The author believes that this kind of "real education" should be practical education and creative education; Only education combined with practice is vivid and creative education. This is "real education" and "useful education".

School education, especially higher education, cannot be divorced from social practice and must be combined with productive labor. Entering the society, the factory and the countryside is the only correct direction to combine education with productive labor. Labor creates knowledge, labor creates wealth and labor creates happiness. Any education that is divorced from practice and despises productive labor is not conducive to the lively development of the younger generation and has no real future, so it is impossible to cultivate Socialism with Chinese characteristics builders and successors with both ability and political integrity.