2. The concept of "education" is a cornerstone of constructing pedagogy theory and a key to understanding various educational theories.
3. Cultivating developed people's ideals and theories from ideal to practice is the primary and basic feature that distinguishes modern education from previous education.
4. The word "education" in English, French and German all comes from the Latin word "education", the prefix E means "out" and the root is "educare". Together, the two words are "Chu", which means to guide something hidden in people through certain means and make it become a reality from potential.
5. In China, the word "education" was first seen in the sentence "Educate outstanding people in the world, enjoy three pleasures" in Mencius.
6, "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" is interpreted as "teaching, applying it, and making it work; Education, raising children to make it good. "
7. Defining "education" is the beginning of rational understanding of educational phenomena.
According to the extension of the definition of education, educators in China and the former Soviet Union divided it into "broad sense" and "narrow sense".
9. According to the statement of the definition of education, Chevreux, an American educational philosopher, divided the complicated and diverse definitions of characteristic education into descriptive definitions, programmatic definitions and prescriptive definitions.
10. Descriptive definition refers to appropriately describing some key features of the defined object or pointing out the method of using the defined concept in a certain situation, such as "education is the activity of cultivating people" or "education is the best way to develop people's intelligence".
1 1, the prescriptive definition refers to the author's own definition and always abides by it in his own educational discourse, such as "In this paper, I define education as a social system that directly supports and maintains purposeful teaching and learning."
12, programmatic definition is a compound form of descriptive definition and prescriptive definition, which not only reveals what the defined object is, but also explicitly or implicitly indicates what the defined object should be, such as "education is a means for the social development of the younger generation to understand the goodness and value in life".