Education is a unique dynamic activity for human beings to inherit culture. The formation and learning of all animal abilities are instinct. Thousands of generations have passed, and little has changed. Only human beings will carry out systematic and purposeful educational activities.
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Education can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense.
Education in a broad sense refers to all social practice activities that purposefully affect people's physical and mental development.
Education in a narrow sense refers to specially organized education, that is, school education, which includes not only full-time school education, but also half-time and amateur school education, correspondence education, publishing education, radio schools and television schools.
According to the reality and future needs of a certain society, it is an activity to guide the educated to acquire knowledge and skills, cultivate ideology and morality, develop intelligence and physical strength, follow the law of physical and mental development of the younger generation, train the educated to adapt to the needs of a certain society (or class) and promote social development.