(1) School education is an important part of social environment. It is a special environment and is organized according to the special needs of people's physical and mental development. Compared with genetic quality and environment (referring to the social environment around the family and children's lives), education plays a leading role in children's physical and mental development.

(2) The reasons why education plays a leading role in people's physical and mental development include:

First, education is a purposeful, planned, organized and systematic activity to cultivate people.

Second, education is conducted by specially trained teachers or educators.

Third, education can bring genetic quality, spontaneous environmental influence and the possibility of individual subjective efforts into the educational track to promote the development of young children.