Philosophy tells us: essence is the thing that makes a thing be exactly that thing. It is the fundamental attribute of things and the internal connection of basic elements of things. It used to be an important topic of education to observe education according to the mirror of Essence. This paper discusses the issue of educational essence from the aspects of mirror, observed mirror, mirror as a whole and how the practitioner does it.

Fei Sun. Essence and Mirror - Reflection on Educational Essence Research. Frontiers in Educational Research (2020) Vol. 3 Issue 10: 66-70. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2020.031015.

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