Animals learn, but without education, education is social, and animals are not social. The transformation from apes to humans is due to productive labor, and apes gradually formed a main mechanism with brain and hand as the core. The brain can think and the hands can operate, which makes people different from ordinary animals and become "advanced animals".
The essence of human education is a purposeful social activity to cultivate people. Mainly manifested in:
1. Education is a unique social phenomenon of human beings.
2. Education is to cultivate the educated consciously, purposefully and consciously.
3. There is a relationship among educators, educatees and educational influence.