The essence of education is the basic stipulation of things and the essential feature that distinguishes one thing from other things. The essence of education is the qualitative stipulation of education as a special social practice, and the question to be answered is "What is education". People's answer to the question "What is education?" can directly reflect his educational vision and generally determine his understanding of the extension, connotation, phenomenon and essence of education, which is a fundamental educational theory and viewpoint. The definition of educational purpose The so-called educational purpose is the result that people want to achieve at the end of educational activities that exist in their minds before they carry out educational activities. It points out the standards and requirements that education should meet, explains what education is for, and what kind of quality and specifications should be achieved in cultivating people to achieve educational goals. Pay special attention to the following aspects of talent quality training: 1. Innovative spirit refers to having a good knowledge base and scientific literacy, keen observation and accurate judgment, being able to effectively screen and quickly capture valuable information, make independent analysis and decision, and get the best benefits in the face of the complicated information world. 2. Practical ability is the ability to apply what you have learned in practice and solve problems, including the ability to directly produce labor and social practice. Applying what you have learned is not only the need to consolidate knowledge learning, but also the fundamental purpose of learning. Taking part in moderate productive labor and social practice is an important way to cultivate a new generation. 3. Open thinking is to change a single thinking reference standard, expand thinking space, be tolerant and open-minded, dare to accept new things, and especially have the ability to compare and analyze problems from an international perspective. 4. Great ideal, creative spirit and broad mind, only when combined with great ideal can there be a direction. The future not only requires the younger generation to have knowledge, ability, creative spirit and open mind, but also requires the younger generation to have a scientific world outlook, outlook on life and values, excellent moral quality and the spirit of striving for a better future for the country and society. The following relations must be correctly handled in the implementation of educational goals: 1. Educational goals Educational goals are formulated according to educational goals. The establishment of educational goals should not only consider the implementation of educational goals, but also combine the nature and tasks of schools at all levels, as well as the physical and mental development characteristics and laws of specific educational objects. The transformation from educational purpose to educational goal is the process of educational purpose from general to concrete. 2. The relationship between morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor. The educational purposes of these five aspects are not simply arranged in parallel, they are mutually restricted, among which moral education is the soul and plays the role of commander-in-chief; Intellectual education is the core, and physical education, aesthetic education and labor technology education are the necessary conditions. Therefore, the "five educations" have relative independence in the all-round development of education, and accomplish different specific tasks respectively, which is dialectical unity, mutual promotion and mutual restriction. 3. The relationship between all-round development and teaching students in accordance with their aptitude is actually a specific requirement for the unity of all-round development of educational objectives and personality development in China. All-round development is not equal to average development or plane development. Different individuals have different qualities and objective conditions in different environments, so they will form different personalities, interests and specialties. Therefore, we must teach students in accordance with their aptitude, give full play to each student's advantages and seek his all-round development. 4. Talents with all-round development and career orientation will eventually live in a certain society. In order to meet the needs of social development, education must cultivate talents for different social posts. Regardless of the nature and reality of different education, blindly emphasizing unified and all-round development will ruin the educational purpose of all-round development. 1. Control the development direction of educational objects. The purpose of education is the general requirement of society for cultivating talents. The activity of cultivating people according to the educational purpose is a kind of control activity for the educated. This control activity needs a long period and needs the cooperation of schools, society and families. The purpose of education stipulates the predetermined development direction of the educated, which can make all aspects control the educated together from beginning to end. Only in this way can the younger generation grow up healthily according to the requirements of society. 2. The purpose of education is related to the overall situation of education. It runs through all aspects of educational activities and plays a guiding role in educational work. All aspects of educational work are restricted by educational purposes and must meet the requirements of educational purposes. 3. Conducive to correct educational thoughts and promote educational reform. Educational thought is the fundamental viewpoint and view about education, and educational purpose is the core issue of educational thought. The purpose of studying and studying education is helpful for us to correct our educational thoughts and consciously invest in educational reform, thus promoting social reform and development. 4. Functional evaluation of educational purpose Educational purpose is the fundamental standard for measuring and evaluating educational quality and specification requirements. Check and evaluate the quality of education and teaching process, check the quality of teachers' education and teaching, evaluate the quality and effect of teachers' work, check students' academic achievements and development degree, and evaluate students' advantages and disadvantages, all of which should be based on the educational purpose. What needs to be particularly emphasized is that the summative inspection and evaluation of education quality must be carried out comprehensively and meticulously according to the educational purpose, which is wrong and harmful to deviate from the requirements of the whole educational purpose and only take one aspect as the standard.