Education is a social activity to cultivate people purposefully, which is the qualitative stipulation of education. This stipulation mainly includes the following aspects:

(1) Education is a social phenomenon, which comes from the needs of social life and, in the final analysis, from productive labor.

(2) Education is a unique phenomenon in human society, which is not found in other animal kingdom.

(3) Education is a social activity to cultivate people, and its social function is to transmit production experience and social life experience and promote the growth of a new generation. At the same time, education is a purposeful social activity to cultivate people. Its purpose is to influence and promote human development and cultivate people's practical consciousness and ability. Whether or not to train people purposefully is the fundamental difference between educational activities and other social activities.

(4) Education is an eternal category of human society, which is always in harmony with human society. Moreover, with the development of society, human beings have accumulated more and more knowledge, and the role of education in human development and social development has become more and more obvious. Different people in different times have different understandings and choices for human survival and development, so they also have different purposes, different ideas and implementation for education. These educations are not all beneficial to human development and social development. However, from the general trend of the historical development of education, from the fundamental significance of education to human survival and development, especially from the basic characteristics of modern education and the basic needs of modern society, we can think that the development of education is basically consistent with the pace of human pursuit of liberation.

(2) Grasp the prescriptive significance of education quality.

Grasping the qualitative stipulation of education through various superficial phenomena of education will help people understand education more deeply and scientifically and develop it better.

Grasping the qualitative stipulation of education is conducive to better exploring human potential and cultivating more architectural talents who can educate themselves, keep pace with the times, develop in an all-round way and have creativity.

The qualitative stipulation of education fundamentally analyzes what is the essence of education, how it comes into being, and what is the difference between it and other animal instincts, which is of fundamental significance to the scientific education theory and practice.