1. education in a broad sense: all activities that enhance people's knowledge and skills, develop people's intelligence and physical strength, and affect people's ideology and morality are education. It includes social education, school education and family education. For example, listening to you is better than studying for ten years; The hardships of life have educated us, and these examples have had an impact on people. So they all belong to education in a broad sense.

Second, education in a narrow sense: it mainly refers to school education, which is an activity that educators exert influence on the educated purposefully, planned and organized according to certain social requirements, and urge them to develop in the expected direction.

The role of education in people

First, for human beings, the role of education is the inheritance and development of culture and values; Second, for a country, the purpose of running education is to improve the quality of its citizens, provide human resources protection for national construction and enhance national competitiveness; Third, for the educated, the main purpose of receiving education is to pursue the happiness of life, whether spiritual or material.

For all mankind, regardless of race, the function of education is to inherit and develop national culture and values. Education comes into being with the emergence of human society, develops with the development of human civilization, and always accompanies human society.

Third, regarding history and culture, especially the values and moral norms handed down by ancestors, we should persist in making the past serve the present, bring forth the new, treat them differently, discard the inheritance, and strive to make use of all the spiritual wealth created by the Chinese nation to educate people with literature. Education enables the national spirit to be passed down and further developed, which is the most important significance of education.

Four, for a country, the main purpose of the government to spend money on education is to improve the quality of the people, provide human resources protection for national construction, and enhance national competitiveness. "A century-long plan, education-oriented". Education is the foundation of the country and the engine of national prosperity. Strong education enhances comprehensive national strength. We must give priority to the development of education for the sake of the country's abundant talents and the vigorous development of various undertakings.