From a certain point of view, the purpose of education is to make the educated prepare for the future life through the acquisition of survival knowledge and the improvement of survival ability. Social education is to achieve this goal through social means. For anyone, life can have two goals. One is to achieve or maintain a basic level of survival, and the other is to improve to a higher level. In order to achieve these two goals—in fact, they are integrated in life, and generally no one will cut them apart—any era, any region and social class will have a basic or minimum objective requirement of knowledge and ability for people living at the intersection of time, space and society as members of the society.
