All activities that enhance people's knowledge and skills and affect people's ideology and morality are education. "Education" is regarded as a subsystem in the whole social system, which distributes and undertakes certain social functions.

2. In a narrow sense:

Refers to the spiritual sublimation of individuals. This definition emphasizes the influence of social factors on individual development. Defining "education" from a personal point of view is often equivalent to an individual's learning or development process.

3. In a narrow sense:

It mainly refers to school education, which refers to the activities that educators exert influence on the body and mind of the educated in a purposeful, planned and organized way according to the requirements of a certain society or class, and cultivate them into people needed by a certain society or class.

Extended data

Education is a practical activity to promote individual socialization and social individualization under a certain social background. If defined around the basic elements of educational activities, education can be defined as a social activity in which people consciously transmit information to others through various methods and media, hoping to influence their spiritual world or psychological state and help or hinder others from acquiring certain concepts, qualities and abilities.

People in the former role are called educators, while people in the latter role are called educational objects. This definition accords with all human educational activities and can be used as the basic definition of education.

The highly developed nervous system of human beings is the material basis and prerequisite for the emergence and development of education. It provides complete thinking functions such as feeling, memory, association, imagination and reasoning, which makes people's consciousness influence and spread each other.

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