1. Education is eternal. Education is a unique social phenomenon of human beings. As long as human society exists, education exists.

2. Education is historic. In different societies or different historical stages of the same society, the nature, purpose and content of education are different. For example, the typical feature of education in the Western Zhou Dynasty was "learning in the official", while the decline of official learning and the rise of private learning in the Spring and Autumn Period broke the restriction of "learning in the official".

3. Education has relative independence, that is, education has its own operating rules and development characteristics, which are mainly manifested in the following three aspects: First, education has qualitative stipulation, that is, the essential attribute of education, which has been described above and will not be repeated here; Secondly, education has a historical heritage, and education in different historical periods is in the same strain.

For example, calligraphy, poetry and other contents were reflected in China's past education. Here, candidates need to distinguish the historicity of education: historical inheritance emphasizes the similarity of education in different periods, and historicity emphasizes the differences of education in different periods.

Finally, education is unbalanced with the development of social productive forces and political and economic systems, which shows that education is ahead of or behind the development of society.

For example, India's higher education has developed rapidly, but the low employment rate is the embodiment that education lags behind economic development; The emergence of Marxist educational thought under capitalist conditions is the embodiment that education is ahead of economic development.

The essential attribute of education should grasp the following three points:

1. Education is a unique phenomenon of human beings. In the animal kingdom, the phenomenon of raising offspring such as "mother monkey teaches little monkey to climb trees" and "mother duck teaches duckling to swim" is not education.

2. Education is a process of cultivating the educated consciously, purposefully and consciously. All human instinctive activities, such as sucking and blinking, are not education.

3. Educational activities have three elements: educators, educatees and educational influence, among which educational influence refers to educational content and means. Educators are the link between educational influence and educated people.

Educated people are the objects that educators choose and exert educational influence. Educational influence is a bridge between educators and educatees and an intermediary between educators and educatees.