Nordic education is community education. Nordic region (including Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland) is not only one of the highly developed regions in the world, but also the earliest region to carry out community education. It emphasizes that through the power of education, community people can consciously and independently participate in the process of improving community political, economic and cultural life. 1844 Danish mass educator Cromwell established the world's first mass middle school in Rodin, Denmark. He proposed to use the power of education to stimulate the national spirit, promote national self-improvement, and then achieve the goal of improving people's lives. He made up for the people's lack of education by living with humanistic spirit, and emphasized that mass middle schools should be "living schools". His school-running ideas and traditions have profoundly influenced the education in Northern Europe.

The term "strict community education" was put forward by Dewey, an American, at the beginning of the 20th century. As the most developed country in the world, the United States has the most perfect community college system in the world, which condenses the basic characteristics of its community education and establishes a vibrant talent mechanism for it. Community colleges have different educational functions from traditional regular universities. This is an informal social education service. Its most fundamental responsibility is to meet the needs of the labor market and skills development according to the national economic and social development trend, and it is the main provider of human resources development in the workplace.

The concept of social education in Japan is similar to "community education" and is defined as the main way of lifelong education. The Social Education Law promulgated by 1949 defines social education as an organized educational activity for all members of society in addition to the school education activities stipulated in the School Education Law. In fact, it is based on lifelong education, divided into pre-adult, adult and old age, and has various educational functions through social education in different periods; Educational institutions are established to promote people's social education activities. All organized and planned learning activities and radio and television education activities are carried out by various special facilities.