Education refers to the purposeful activity of cultivating people, which is the fundamental feature and essential attribute that distinguishes education from other things. At the same time, education is a unique conscious activity of human beings, and it is an activity that human beings use to transmit knowledge and social experience.

Activities that affect people's physical and mental development may be conscious and purposeful, or unconscious and aimless; If the activities that affect people's physical and mental development are aimless and unconscious, then it cannot be called education.

The historical inheritance of education means that the education of each era has a certain relationship with the education of the previous era. Education has its own law, which is an objective existence independent of human will, and people can only know and use it more and more.