That is, the same materialized education. Formal education means that educational activities have been divorced from social production and life and become a special form of social practice, with fixed educators, educatees, educational places and relatively standardized educational content. School education belongs to formal education.

Formal education is equivalent to what we usually call exam-oriented education (cramming education), which refers to an educational concept and model that is divorced from the needs of social development and violates the laws of natural development, and aims at taking exams. It is a concentrated expression of the disadvantages of education.

Second, institutionalized education.

Which is formal education. The typical feature is the establishment of academic system. With the interactive development of education and society, the relationship between education and society is getting closer and closer. In modern society, people generally realize the important value of education and invest huge social resources to develop education, making education a complex three-dimensional network system. In order to make education run in a high-speed and orderly way, many countries regulate the content, form and method of education through laws. This is institutionalized education. Since the capitalist mode of production came into being, with the gradual expansion and complexity of the scale of education, education began to enter the institutionalized form. The school education system (academic system for short) is a typical manifestation of institutionalized education.

Three. similarities and differences

Education can be divided into informal education, formal education and institutionalized education according to the different degree of regularization of education itself, that is, the different forms of education. Among them, informal education and formal education are collectively called non-institutionalized education.

Formal education: It means that education should attach importance to cultivating functions and developing abilities, and imparting knowledge is irrelevant. Students mainly cultivate memory, logical thinking and perceptual ability through grammar, language and mathematics, ignoring the connection between education and social life, which is a one-sided education model.

Institutionalized education: replacing individual teaching system with class teaching system, the formation of education system, the popularization of education, the advancement of "institutionalization" of education, the progress of educational research and the accumulation of educational experience. In order to put an end to the anomie of educational activities, when possible, the system makers tend to make the rules and norms contained in the system more dense and make the system complete, which is the tendency of "institutionalization". Institutionalized education pays attention to scores and pursues the rate of enrollment. In classroom teaching, teachers instill and emphasize students' obedience. In bureaucratic education, it pursues the power of education.