1. Education is a purposeful activity to cultivate people, which stipulates the development direction of people.

2. Education, especially school education, has a comprehensive, systematic and profound impact on people.

3. The school has specially trained educators-teachers.

Characteristics of school education:

1, function specialization.

The educational function of the school is to train people, and the school is a place to train people. Compared with social education and family education, the main difference of school education lies in its particularity. The particularity of school education is mainly manifested in the single-mindedness of tasks.

The only mission of the school is to cultivate people, and other tasks are realized around cultivating people. There are special educators-teachers in school education, who have undergone strict selection and special training.

Such educators are not only knowledgeable and virtuous, but also know the laws of education and master effective educational methods. School education also has special teaching equipment and special educational means. All these fully ensure the effectiveness of school education.

2. Organizational rigidity.

Education is characterized by purposeful, organized and planned influence on people. School education embodies the characteristics of education. The purpose and planning of school education are embodied in strict organization. School education is institutionalized education. School education has a strict organizational structure and system.

From a macro perspective, schools have various institutional structures; From the microscopic point of view, the school has specialized leadership positions and educational and teaching organizations, specialized institutions engaged in ideological and political, teaching, general affairs and logistics, and cultural and sports activities, and a series of strict educational and teaching systems, which are not available in social education and family education.

3. Comprehensive function.

The role of school education in human development is comprehensive. The influence of social education and family education on people's growth is somewhat accidental, and the scope of influence is often concentrated in some aspects.

School education is an activity to cultivate people in an all-round way. It should not only care about the growth of the educated's knowledge and intelligence, but also care about the formation of students' ideological and moral character and the healthy growth of the educated. It is the unique duty of school education to cultivate and shape all-round and complete social people. And this responsibility can only be borne by school education.