(1) Consumption is an economic behavior that human beings satisfy their own desires through consumer goods, including the expenditure on purchasing goods and services. Therefore, people's educational expenditure for acquiring scientific knowledge, cultural knowledge, increasing knowledge, skills and experience belongs to consumption.

(2) Investment means that people gradually accumulate rich experience, knowledge and experience in the process of acquiring knowledge, increasing knowledge and learning experience in order to gain income or capital appreciation in the foreseeable future, and expect to earn more funds in the future and realize capital appreciation, which is a long-term investment behavior.

2. "Education" is a process of teaching others to think with knowledge as a tool, thinking about how to use what they have to create higher social wealth and realize self-worth. Teaching: what is painted on it is also effective. Education: adopting a son makes it better.

3. Education is a practical activity that consciously affects people's physical and mental development and cultivates people, and promotes individual socialization and social individualization under a certain social background.

(1) Education in a broad sense is all activities that enhance people's knowledge and skills and affect people's ideology and morality.

(2) Education in a narrow sense 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); In a narrow sense, it sometimes refers to ideological education activities.

4. Education is divided into formal education, adult education, technical education, second generation education and lifelong education.