Main representatives: French philosopher and sociologist Little Knohl and British educator Percy Neng.

Key points: Educational activities exist not only in human society, but also in the animal kingdom. The emergence of human social education is a biological process, biological impulse is the main driving force of education, and human social education is the inheritance, perfection and development of animal kingdom.

2. Theory of psychological origin

The main representative: Lu Meng, a famous American educator, said that the origin of educational psychology was based on criticizing the origin of educational biology.

Main points: Meng Lu explained the origin of education from the perspective of psychology, and thought that the forms and methods of primitive education were mainly children's unconscious imitation of adult life in daily life.

3. Theory of labor origin

Main representatives: Soviet educationists Midinsky and Kailov. The theory of labor origin is formed under the guidance of Marxist historical materialism on the basis of directly criticizing the theory of biological origin and the theory of psychological origin.

Key points: human education originated from the needs of labor and labor process; Education is a unique social activity of human society; Education is restricted by the development of human language and consciousness; The function of education is to pass on the experience of production and life formed in the process of labor from the day it comes into being.

The biological origin theory of education is the first formal theory about the origin of education in the history of pedagogy, which marks the beginning of the transformation of the origin of education from myth explanation to scientific explanation.

The origin of education is attributed to the instinctive behavior of animals, which fails to distinguish the difference between human educational behavior and animal educational behavior, thus failing to grasp the purpose and sociality of human education.

The biological origin theory of education is the first formal theory about the origin of education in the history of pedagogy, which marks the beginning of the transformation of the origin of education from myth explanation to scientific explanation.

The origin of education is attributed to the instinctive behavior of animals, which fails to distinguish the difference between human educational behavior and animal educational behavior, thus failing to grasp the purpose and sociality of human education.