1. Education is the development as a "subject", not as a "means".
Educational activities are practical activities, and the educational process is a bilateral activity process of pedagogy. Therefore, there is a "double subject" in educational activities, that is, in teachers' "teaching", teachers are the subject, students are the object, and knowledge is the medium; In students' "learning", students are the subject, knowledge is the object and teachers are the media.
The essence of education is to improve and develop students' subjectivity, so that students can gradually change from free people to social people. In this process, students themselves are the main body of development and transformation. Recognizing and respecting students' "subject" status is the premise of implementing quality education, which is geared to all and allows students to develop in an all-round and positive way.
The development of students in educational activities is achieved through self-design, self-construction and self-effort. Only by taking oneself as the object of cognition and transformation at the same time and solving various contradictions in one's subjective world can we achieve real development. If we regard people as pure objects, we are not developing the subject people, but developing the "means of production".
2. Education is the improvement of innovation ability, not the improvement of replication ability.
The essence of education is to transform the superior achievements of human civilization into internal psychological structure. The purpose of education is not to make students "copy" knowledge, but to make knowledge the main ability of students.