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Title:: The Tension between Man and Machine：A Philosophical Reflectionon the Function of Education Equipment

Keywords:: education equipment; instrumental rationality; value rationality; unity of human and machine

Abstract:: The value of education equipment is in the use of technology to enhance the effectiveness ofeducation and teaching，thus having distinct features of scientificity and efficiency. The ultimate goal ofusing education equipment is to promote the development of human beings. Its application should take intoconsideration both the efficiency of machines and human autonomy，and avoid enslaving human beings tomachines. The bondage and enslavement of human beings is due to the alienation in the use of educationequipment. Therefore，the most urgent issue concerning the current allocation and application of educationequipment is to eliminate the widespread blind worship of technologies and utilitarianism，avoiding an absolutetechnicalism. In the final analysis，the machine is to serve the people，and the basic logic in using educationequipment is to uphold a humanistic thought and achieve the unity between man and machine.