Education is a unique social phenomenon of human beings. Human education is social and purposeful, which is essentially different from animal instinct education. Animals learn, but there is no education. Education is social, but animals are not. The transformation from apes to humans is due to productive labor, in which apes gradually formed the main mechanism with brain and hand as the core. The brain can think and the hands can operate, which makes people different from ordinary animals and become? Advanced animals? . The so-called animals? Education? Education (if it must be called education) is mainly to solve the adaptation and survival problems of animal individuals in the natural environment, while human education is based on subjective consciousness from the beginning, not only for the survival and adaptation of individuals, but also for the needs of environmental transformation and self-development.

Education is a unique social activity of human society; Education is restricted by the development of human language and consciousness; Fourth, 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 theory on the origin of education formally put forward in the history of pedagogy, which marks the beginning of the transformation of the origin of education from mythical interpretation to scientific interpretation. 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.

Representative figures are French philosopher and sociologist Little, and British educator and philosopher Pei Xineng. People think that education exists not only in human society, but also in the animal world. Education comes from animal instinct. Animals, especially higher animals, are born with a potential educational ability derived from heredity, so that future generations can continue to reproduce. The most obvious mistake of biological origin theory is to equate animal instinct with education and deny the sociality of education. American psychologist Lu Meng believes that education originates from children's unconscious imitation of adults, and puts forward the concept of education from the psychological point of view. Psychological origin theory? .

In primitive society, children constantly imitate the work of adults by observing their activities such as gathering, hunting and weaving, and accumulate life experience, thus gaining various survival skills. The theory of psychological origin regards education as a simple imitation and fails to achieve the purpose of education. Although Meng Lu made progress, he pointed out that education is an attribute that only humans have, but animals don't. But in essence, he still thinks that education is unconscious, that is, instinctive, which also ignores the sociality of education.