Education, enlightenment, self-cultivation, use the existing experience and knowledge to scrutinize people and explain various phenomena, problems or behaviors for them. Basically, it is to treat people with a relatively mature or rational thinking and make things close to their most fundamental existence. In it, people slowly reach the state of cognitive understanding from the touch of the senses to a thing, and form a relatively perfect or rational conscious thinking ... But at the same time, people have self-conscious thinking, and it also has its own sensory dimension, so the conscious thinking of any education is not necessarily absolutely correct, but should understand its thinking direction emotionally, as long as it does not deviate from the inherent essence of things; Education is also a teaching of thinking, and people have different thinking tendencies because of their own ideology. Therefore, education should educate people with the most objective and fair thinking, so that people's thinking will not be too biased, because thinking is rich and gradually mature and rational, thus moving towards the most rational self and having the most correct thinking cognition. Perhaps this is the foundation of education.

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 special education, including 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.

Inheriting and innovating human civilization, we call it cultural education, learning history and culture.

Teaching and developing human technology, we call it technical education and learning professional technology.

Teaching and developing human technology, for ordinary educatees, is to enable them to master certain technologies, serve and support society, and at the same time support themselves and develop themselves through education and training.

However, it is not the whole or even the most important part of education. The most important part is to inherit and develop human civilization. Only such education is the education of educating educators into adults. In short, it is human education, not tool education.