1. Education is a social activity to cultivate people and a basic way to inherit social culture, production experience and life experience.

2. Education in a broad sense refers to all activities that enhance people's knowledge and skills and influence people's thoughts, all of which have educational functions.

3. In a narrow sense, it refers to social activities with the direct goal of influencing people's physical and mental development, mainly referring to school education, which is an activity that educators exert influence on the physical and mental health of the educated purposefully, planned and organized through school education according to certain social requirements, and urge them to change in the expected direction.