1. All activities that improve people's knowledge and skills, develop people's intelligence and physical strength, and influence people's thinking can be called education.

2. Basic elements of school education: educators; Educated; Educational influence.

3. Educational influence: all information that educators act on students in the process of education, including both the content of information and the form of information transmission and feedback, is the unity of form and content.

4. The characteristics of primitive society and primitive education: low education level. There is no institutionalized educational institution, the educational content is poor, and the educational methods are mainly word of mouth and practice imitation; Education has no class. Education is closely related to primitive religion or consciousness.

5. Characteristics of modern education: the emphasis and intervention on modern education have been strengthened, and public education has risen. Popularize compulsory primary education. Secularization of education. Emphasize the rule of law. There is a dual-track system. Modern school education system.