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The basic characteristics of education are
The essential characteristics of education include the following aspects:

(1) Education is a conscious social activity unique to human beings and a historical category of human activities;

2) Education is a unique form of cultural transmission and dissemination in human society, which has the function of transmitting and disseminating human production and life experience;

(3) Education is a social activity that consciously affects people's physical and mental development and plays a leading role in people's physical and mental development;

(4) All education is always influenced by social economy, politics, culture and other aspects at that time, and at the same time, education has a negative effect on these aspects.