Karl jaspers is a German existentialist philosopher, psychologist, educator and psychiatrist, and he is the representative of existentialist educational thought.

Jaspers once served as a professor of psychology in the Department of Philosophy of the University of Heidelberg, an honorary assessor of the University of Heidelberg and a professor in the Department of Philosophy of university of basel.

During his tenure as a professor of psychology at Heidelberg University, Jaspers suffered a storm of dismissal, but it showed the world his unwavering commitment to love.

After the Nazis came to power, Jaspers was implicated because of his wife's Jewish identity, his work was stopped and his works were banned from publication.

His wife took the initiative to ask Jaspers to give up herself in order to regain the publishing rights and works of the book, but he refused this request and replied affectionately:

"If I give up on you, all my philosophy will lose its meaning."

Jaspers has rich works in his life, and his main representative works are: The Idea of University (1923), Mental State of the Times (193 1), Reason and Survival (1935) and Philosophy of Survival (/kloc).

Among them, What is Education published by 1977 is an anthology of Jaspers' educational discourses, which reflects his existential educational thoughts.

According to statistics, this book has been cited by HowNet for 3787 times, and it is one of the most influential foreign educational masterpieces in China.