Abstract
Cultural education is closely related to individual development and the needs for economic, social, and technological development, which, while aiming at improving students’ overall professionalism, respects their subjective consciousness and initiative, highlights the development of personality and individual potential, and designs and improves educational activities that are characterized by cultivating people’s ability to make innovation, start a business, and form a healthy personality. Taking problems existing in the cultural education in vocational colleges as the cut-in point, this paper explored the inner driving force of cultural education in the new era and tried to discuss the concept, objectives, content and mechanism of cultural education by pivoting to individual autonomy, expertise, and development goals, with the hope that the inner driving force of cultural education could be effectively carried out.