Education is a unique social phenomenon of human beings. Human education is social and purposeful, which is essentially different from animal instinct education. Animals learn, but without education, education is social, and animals are not social.
The essence of human education is a purposeful social activity to cultivate people. Mainly manifested in:
1. Education is a unique social phenomenon of human beings.
2. Education is to cultivate the educated consciously, purposefully and consciously.
3. There is a relationship among educators, educatees and educational influence.