1. The definition of education:
Education: Educators educate and cultivate the physical and mental development of the educated purposefully, planned and organized, use the existing experience and knowledge to examine people, explain various phenomena, problems or behaviors for them, and increase their ability and experience. Basically, it is to treat things cognitively with a relatively mature or rational person's thinking and make things close to their most fundamental existence. In it, people gradually change from sensory touch to cognitive understanding, forming a relatively perfect or rational self.
Education is also a process of teaching and educating people, which can teach others the most objective understanding, and then gain their own values in their own life experience. Education is a practical activity to improve people's comprehensive quality.
2, the introduction of education:
The process of education starts from a person's birth and lasts for a lifetime, bringing lasting and profound changes to people. Some people even think that education can start earlier. Some parents influence the growing fetus in the uterus through external words and music, and carry out prenatal education, hoping to give their children a positive and healthy development.
3, the source of the word education:
The word "education" comes from Mencius' "cultivating talents in the world" Latin educare is the source of the word "education" in the west, which means "education". Society chooses talents according to their education level. People realize the change of social status through education. Education comes into being with the emergence of human society, develops with the development of society, and always accompanies human society.
4, the connotation of education:
Education can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense.
Education in a broad sense refers to all social practice activities that purposefully affect people's physical and mental development.
Education in a narrow sense refers to specially organized education, that is, school education, which includes not only full-time school education, but also half-time and amateur school education, correspondence education, publishing education, radio schools and television schools.