2. The educational goal is relatively stable;

3. There are relatively stable venues and facilities for activities;

4. Form a series of cultural communication activities;

5. An independent form of social activities composed of the above factors.

Formal education 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.

Extended data:

From a certain point of view, substantive education basically includes all forms of education (school education, family education and social education) before the arrival of the information age.

In substantive education, it is mainly face-to-face communication between teachers and students. In class, the teacher's language, body movements, gestures, blackboard writing, demonstrations, etc. Affect students, that is to say, teachers' every move, words and deeds may become the objects of students' imitation and learning.

Teachers' attitudes and methods, talent, personality and world outlook will exert a subtle influence on students. While imparting knowledge, teachers set an example for students with their own personality charm. In this respect, virtual education is incomparable.