The essence of education refers to the fundamental relationship between the internal elements of education and the fundamental characteristics of education as a social activity that distinguishes it from other social activities. As opposed to "educational phenomenon".

Education is an activity to cultivate people. Education has existed since human society. Its function is to transmit social production and life experience, promote human development and cultivate talents needed by society according to the requirements of a certain society. This basic feature exists in various social education activities and distinguishes it from other human social activities.

The significance of education:

Education is a conscious social activity aimed at influencing people's physical and mental development. Educational activity is a conscious social activity with people as the direct object, which is different from other social production activities with material products or spiritual products as the direct object.

There is a difference between education and other conscious activities directed at people. Education aims to influence people's physical and mental development. In this way, educational activities are different from medical activities aimed at protecting people's physical and mental health and resisting the harm of diseases to people's physical and mental health and social service activities aimed at meeting people's various needs.