Traditional education: refers to school education as opposed to modern education. Generally refers to the popular and influential educational ideas, systems and methods formed in a certain historical period. In the initial stage of the formation and development of educational tradition, it is basically realistic or progressive. With the changes of the times and the progress of society, it will gradually become outdated and backward to varying degrees. Among them, those that do not conform to the objective reality and social development are eliminated and abandoned; It is more scientific to affirm, inherit and develop what conforms to objective reality and social development as the essence.

Reverse education is a family education system with China characteristics, which was initiated by Mr. Tan through his painstaking research on the current situation of family education in China, the psychological problems of teenagers, juvenile delinquency, the history of human education, and the comparison between eastern and western education. Its characteristics are retrospection, introspective cultivation, compatibility with the essence of Chinese studies and direct access to the core of education. It includes five dimensions of reverse education: introspection, face-to-face, modesty, tolerance and normality. "Independent personality, ultimate value, university, authorized release, dialogue and interaction, empathy, intersection of * * * glory and driving spiral" are the eight gates of reverse education.