The essence of education refers to the fundamental characteristic that education, as a social activity, is different from other social activities, that is, the question of "what is education". It reflects the inherent stipulation of educational activities, that is, the fundamental characteristics of educational activities.
Education has two basic laws, one reflects the dialectical relationship between social development and education, and the other reflects the dialectical relationship between human development and education.
Education, enlightenment, self-cultivation, use the existing experience and knowledge to scrutinize people and explain various phenomena, problems or behaviors for them. Basically, it is to treat people with a relatively mature or rational thinking and make things close to their most fundamental existence. In it, people slowly reach the state of cognitive understanding from the touch of the senses, and form a relatively perfect or rational conscious thinking ... But at the same time, people have self-conscious thinking, and it also has its own sensory dimension, so the conscious thinking of any education is not necessarily absolutely correct, but should understand its thinking direction emotionally, as long as it does not deviate from the inherent essence of things; Education is also a teaching of thinking, and people have different thinking tendencies because of their own ideology. Therefore, education should educate people with the most objective and fair thinking, so that people's thinking will not be too biased, because thinking is rich and gradually mature and rational, thus moving towards the most rational self and having the most correct thinking cognition. Perhaps this is the foundation of education.
No matter how things develop, there is always something immutable, so this immutable thing can be summarized as the "Basic Law". To sum up, the law that determines the development direction of things is the basic law.