The combination of five educations refers to the all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor.

The simultaneous development of five educations is an ideological proposition put forward by Cai Yuanpei, an educational thinker, that "military education, utilitarian education, civic moral education, world outlook education and aesthetic education can not be neglected".

1. The meaning of "five educations" at the same time is:

① Military national education: Cai Yuanpei believes that the main goal of military national education is to shake up the national spirit and cultivate a strong wind; Wartime is marked by resisting foreign aggression and defeating the enemy.

② Materialist education: The people's livelihood should be the key item of general education, and the relationship between education and national economic life should be emphasized, so as to cultivate national industrial talents and improve national survival and competitiveness.

③ civic moral education: strengthen the concept of the state, emphasize that "a state can become a state with more than four people", get rid of the idea of being loyal to the monarch and blindly follow, and cultivate civic awareness and national concept.

④ world outlook education: we should use a scientific world outlook to erect it in the minds of the younger generation and fundamentally change its world outlook.

⑤ aesthetic education: Cai Yuanpei established aesthetic education as an important part of school education for the first time, and placed its position among moral education, intellectual education and physical education, and viewed its significance from the perspective of people's all-round development.

2. The educational idea of "five educations" was put forward by Cai Yuanpei in "Opinions on New Education". In his opinion, there are three other educations, namely, ethics education, religion education and aesthetic education, which are collectively called "five educations". This thought embodies the democratic requirements of the bourgeoisie for education and the specific school-running policy.

It reflects the requirements of implementing democratic politics, developing economy, advocating science and technology and paying attention to cultural development, and it is a set of educational ideas with certain progressive significance. But this idea also has great limitations. For example, he understands that military sports and military training cannot be equated, but it excludes the position of military training in schools; Materialist education and vocational education are not the same concept, but vocational education replaces materialistic education; Especially, the view on religious education is biased. It is even more difficult to operate in implementation.

The enlightenment of the educational thought of "five educations" to modern education:

1. Adhere to the people-oriented concept. Modern education should focus on students' development, pay attention to cultivating students' innovative ability and practical ability, respect students' individuality and differences, and meet different students' learning needs and hobbies.

2. Emphasize the importance of quality education. Modern education should pay attention to the implementation of quality education, including the improvement of ideological and moral quality, cultural and scientific quality, physical quality, aesthetic quality and labor skills, and improve students' comprehensive quality and ability level.

3. Pay attention to the cultivation of practical ability. Modern education should pay attention to the development of practical teaching and activities, so that students can learn knowledge, master skills and exercise ability in practice, and improve their practical operation ability and problem-solving ability.

4. Strengthen cross-disciplinary integration. Modern education should strengthen interdisciplinary integration, promote mutual penetration and support between different disciplines, promote the coordinated development of disciplines, and provide students with more comprehensive educational services.

5. Advocate diversified evaluation methods. Modern education should advocate diversified evaluation methods, pay attention to the combination of process evaluation and result evaluation, encourage students to actively participate in the evaluation process, and promote students' self-reflection and self-improvement.