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. Latin educare is the source of the word "education" in the west, which means "education".

Shan Zhi education

Basic education is reading, writing and calculating. According to the division of curriculum tasks, it can be divided into basic courses, extended courses and research courses. Among them, the basic course is a course with the core of cultivating students' basic academic ability and a basic education with the core of cultivating students to become basic citizens (reading, writing and computing), which is the main component of the primary and secondary school curriculum.

The instinctive function of education

Promoting human development is the instinctive function of education, and its derivative function is the social function of education. It plays a certain role by cultivating people to enter the society and become citizens of a certain society, and plays a role in adapting, transforming and changing the maintenance and development of society. Education can be divided into school education and family education. Generally speaking, school education plays a leading role in human development. People often say that "knowledge changes fate." "The book has its own golden house, the book has its own Yan Ruyu, and the book comes from a thousand bells." Now, for most people, the most effective way to acquire knowledge is school education.

The purpose of school education is very strong, and the school is an institution that specializes in cultivating people. Its activities, cultural creation and system construction are almost all around the purpose of cultivating people. School education is very systematic, which is mainly manifested in planning, organization, cooperation and comprehensiveness. School education is also highly selective and professional. Many thinkers and educators in history have affirmed the role of education in human development. Rousseau said: "The formation of plants is due to cultivation, and the formation of people is due to education." Kant said: "Man can only become a man through education, and man is the product of education." These viewpoints all affirm that education plays an extremely important role in human development.