This paper is a normative inquiry which discusses the essence and position of education as praxis in the horizon of Practical Philosophy. The real praxis of education is an action for human beings to cherish goodness and it is also a fundamental way to pursue the good life and the excellence of humanity. Educational action and its purpose are united and constitutive. It is an action based on rationality, morality and internal purposiveness. Only when education has these characteristics can it be the real praxis. As one of the highest forms of human practice, the purpose of education is ultimate, not instrumental. The instrumentalization, formulization and technicalization of education turn it into a technical process which makes the praxis degrading and distorted. Thus returning to praxis is a necessary appeal for education to become the practice which pursues its internal purpose consisting of good, ethical and rational actions.