In the animal kingdom, especially in the generation of higher animals, there are indeed similar phenomena to "teaching" and "learning" in human society-but they cannot be equated-and similar behaviors between animals and humans are essentially different.

Instinct and subjectivity

It is an instinctive need for animals to love, care for and nurture their offspring, but the basis of human education is not instinctive need, but social need realized through human subjectivity.

Language and consciousness

Without language and consciousness, animals can't accumulate their own experiences and pass them on to their companions, nor can they summarize and classify their own experiences, making them the shared wealth of their companions. Because of language and consciousness, human beings can accumulate their own experience and pass it on to their companions with common language or body; You can also rely on language and writing to transform personal experience from "hidden experience" that can only be understood but cannot be expressed into "explicit experience" shared by human beings.

Adapt to nature and transform the environment

The so-called "education" in animals (if it must be called education) is mainly to solve the adaptation and survival problems of individual animals 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 transforming the environment and developing themselves.

Sociality and consciousness

Sociality and activity consciousness are the essential differences between human beings and animals, and also the essential differences between human educational activities and so-called "educational" activities of animals.