Traditional educational functions include preaching, teaching and dispelling doubts.

Traditional education includes preaching, teaching and solving doubts.

To preach and teach is from Han Yu's Teacher's Theory: "Ancient scholars must have teachers. Teacher, so preach by (through "grant") industry also. People are not born knowing, who can have no doubt? Confused, if you don't follow the teacher, you will be confused and finally confused. "

Today's understanding: preaching is to teach people to be human beings and convey values and political thoughts. Teaching to solve doubts is to impart knowledge and skills and answer doubts.

Most of the work done by education is the above content, which can be summarized as: teaching and educating people. Teaching and educating people is the bounden duty of teachers. However, besides preaching and teaching, education has other essential characteristics.

First, education has the characteristics of the times, that is, different times have different definitions of the nature of education. Second, education is national, and different nationalities have different views on the nature of education.

Let's take a look at the different sources of the definition of education in the east and the west: the word "education" comes from Mencius' "educating the world's talents" Focus on teaching. Latin educare is the source of the word "education" in the west, which means "education". Emphasis is placed on guiding, stimulating and guiding human potential.

After that, different times and different countries have different definitions of education. After all, education is influenced by politics, economy, social class and culture, so people will have different definitions of education.