Why is it that the fundamental difference between modern education and traditional education lies in attaching importance to cultivating students' innovative ability?

Traditional education takes the stability and oneness of teaching content as the basic starting point and the memory and reproduction of knowledge as the basic learning goal. It emphasizes the quantity and accuracy of knowledge and the memory of past knowledge. Therefore, in traditional education, mastering knowledge itself is the teaching purpose, and the teaching process is understood as the process of knowledge accumulation. In this teaching process, the cultivation of innovative ability is not and cannot be valued.

In modern society, the rapid pace of knowledge creation and renewal is changing the educational activities aimed at knowledge learning and accumulation. Learning knowledge has become a means to understand the nature of science, train thinking ability and master learning methods. In the teaching process, the emphasis is on the process of "discovering" knowledge, not simply obtaining results, but creative problem-solving methods and forming the spirit of inquiry. In this teaching process, students' adaptability and innovation ability are cultivated and developed in the process of solving problems.