Abstract: China has experienced a century-long process of western learning and takes the word “Pädagogik” as “Pedagogy”. However, we have been unaware of the similarities and differences between “Pädagogik” and “Pedagogy” for a long time. As a result, it is not uncommon to see the heated debates on “pedagogy” issues from foreign perspective and local as well as the criticism on the achievements of Chinese “Pedagogy” from the perspective of “Pädagogik”. This study tries to reveal the crux in the construction of “Padagogik” by the comparison of Chinese and western education culture, so as to improve the confidence of educational culture in China to some degree and understand the “Pädagogik” and western learning in a way which differs from “Pedagogy”.

Key words: Pedagogy, Pädagogik, education, cultivation, Western learning