(1) Education in a broad sense refers to all activities that improve people's knowledge, skills and physical health and influence people's ideas. It includes family education, social education and school education, which not only have their own connotations, characteristics and functions, but also are interrelated, infiltrated and restricted.
(2) Education in a narrow sense mainly refers to school education, which is an activity that educators exert influence on the educated body and mind purposefully, planned and organized according to certain social requirements, and urge them to change in the expected direction. School education is the product of social development to a certain stage, and its basic conditions are the development of productive forces and the production of characters. The concept of "education" used in general pedagogy is this narrow sense of education. Its characteristics are that its target is mainly the new generation, and its task is to realize individual socialization; This is carried out under the guidance of teachers with special vocational training; It is organized, planned and purposeful.
(3) Pedagogy is a science that studies educational phenomena and problems and prompts educational laws. Educational phenomenon is a basic summary of educational activities and an external manifestation of various educational activities; Education is a contradictory and conflicting educational phenomenon. The law of education is an essential and inevitable connection between Zhuge Liang's factors in education and between education and other things. The significance of pedagogy lies in revealing educational laws and providing theoretical basis for educational practice by studying educational phenomena and problems.