How Far is Educational Theory from Practice? ——Understanding from Educational Development

The fact that just simply consider the relation between educational theory and practice as “association or “divorce is unilateral to some degree. In brief the relation between educational theory and practice is a spiral progress from natural unification to mutual divorce to re-unification. After the subject-differentiating stage of educational-research development, no matter whether it is association or unification, a certain difference must exist between educational theory and practice. With view of development of educational science, we can have a better understanding of such a process.