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Connotation of educational concept
The connotation of the concept of education is to cultivate people's conscious activities, and the extension (the scope of education) is: education in a broad sense and education in a narrow sense; Formal education and informal education; School, family and social education.

Education in a narrow sense refers to specially organized school education; Broadly speaking, it refers to social practice activities that affect people's physical and mental development. Latin educare is the source of the word "education" in the west, which means "education".

Educators carry out purposeful, systematic and organized education and training on the mental development of educatees according to laws, regulations and industry norms, according to school conditions and professional titles, and use existing experience and knowledge to teach people, explain various phenomena, problems or behaviors for them, and improve their practical ability. Basically, it is to look at things with a relatively mature or rational thinking.

In it, people gradually moved from the touch of the senses to the state of cognitive understanding, forming a relatively perfect or rational conscious thinking. But at the same time, people have self-conscious thinking and their own sensory dimensions, so the conscious thinking of any education is not necessarily absolutely correct, but should understand the direction of their thinking in a perceptual way, as long as it does not deviate from the inherent essence of things.

The definition of "education" can be divided into different levels.

1, broadly speaking, all activities that enhance people's knowledge and skills and affect people's ideology and morality are education. "Education" is regarded as a subsystem in the whole social system, which distributes and undertakes certain social functions.

2. Narrow sense: refers to individual spiritual sublimation. This definition emphasizes the influence of social factors on individual development. Defining "education" from a personal point of view is often equivalent to an individual's learning or development process.

3. In a narrow sense, it mainly refers to school education, which refers to the activities that educators exert influence on the body and mind of the educated in a purposeful, planned and organized way according to the requirements of a certain society or class, and cultivate them into people needed by a certain society or class. This mainly refers to the exam-oriented education in China campus.