The Outline of Human Educational Cognition

As regards human educational cognition, our epistemology should pursue the answers to the following questions. First, how does the field of educational cognition come into being? Does it go hand in hand with educational activities? Second, what is education as the object of education cognition? Third, what does "educational cognition" as a verb mean? What does it pursue? Fourth, how should we perceive the subject of educational cognition? As a response to the above questions, we start with examining educational cognition in the secular sense and use the method of philosophical speculation to obtain the following basic judgments about human educational cognition: "educational world" is the complete object of educational cognition in the sense of philosophical epistemology; educational research is the basic mode of human educational cognition in terms of its origin and system. Educational cognition is the creative labor connected with human existence and development. Thus, education-cognizers should be endowed with the rationality of labor and know that they work for the knowledge of education and the use of education, that they must discover, invent and create, and that they should obtain the truth of education through educational cognition.