Education is a social activity to cultivate people purposefully, which is the fundamental feature of education that distinguishes it from other things, the qualitative stipulation of education and the characteristics of education.

The above content comes from "Primary Education", which was compiled by the Research and Development Center of Teacher Education Curriculum Textbooks of People's Education Publishing House (referred to as the Teacher Education Center) on the basis of summarizing the previous experience in the construction of primary school teachers' textbooks. First of all, in order to enable normal students to establish a correct educational concept and master the basic knowledge of pedagogy principles, this book appropriately strengthens the academic nature and improves the theoretical level. Secondly, strengthen the times, strive to reflect the new achievements of educational theory and practice, and provide some information about educational modernization for normal students.