Educational need includes the individual’s need for knowledge, ability and good conduct and the society’s need for qualified citizens and professional workers. Educational need is to be inspired and intensified as it is being satisfied and is also to be satisfied as it is being inspired and intensified. There are complex relations between moral, intellectual and physical, internal and external, social and individual, purposeful and instrumental, manforming and workerforming , universal and special, realistic and longrun, and succeeding and innovating educational needs, and even more complex relation between complex educational needs and complex material and spiritual needs. So a proper knowledge and treatment of these complex relations is of considerable importance to satisfying, inspiring and guiding people’s educational needs to develop reasonable educational demand to improve the quality of men and promote social development.

educational need; educational value; reasonable education