K 12, an educational term, is the abbreviation of preschool education to senior high school education, and now it is widely used to refer to basic education. K 12 or K- 12 is the abbreviation from kindergarten to twelfth grade, which means from kindergarten (generally 5-6 years old) to twelfth grade (generally 17- 18 years old).
These two grades are the first and last grades of free education in the United States, Australia, Britain and Canada, and K- 12 is the international collective name for basic education. K 12 is mainly adopted by the United States, Canada and other North American countries. Education in a narrow sense refers to specially organized school education; Broadly speaking, it refers to social practice activities that affect people's physical and mental development.
Educators carry out purposeful, systematic and organized education and training on the mental development of educatees according to laws, regulations and industry norms, according to school conditions and professional titles, and use existing experience and knowledge to teach people, explain various phenomena, problems or behaviors for them, and improve their practical ability. Basically, it is to look at things with a relatively mature or rational thinking.
In it, people gradually moved from the touch of the senses to the state of cognitive understanding, forming a relatively perfect or rational conscious thinking. But at the same time, people have self-conscious thinking and their own sensory dimensions, so the conscious thinking of any education is not necessarily absolutely correct, but should understand the direction of their thinking in a perceptual way, as long as it does not deviate from the inherent essence of things.
The significance of education:
The significance of education is to make people understand the responsibilities and obligations of a person to human society. Only when a person understands his responsibilities and obligations can he become a useful person, and only when he completes his responsibilities and obligations can he become a useful person. This is the purpose of education. And a person's responsibility and obligation are the main contents of education.
Education is a purposeful, organized, planned and systematic social activity to impart knowledge and technical norms. The fundamental value of education is to provide the country with talented people with lofty beliefs, noble morality, honesty and law-abiding, skills, knowledge and versatility, and to cultivate and bring up the labor force needed for economic and social development.