Social attribute of education

(1) Eternity. Education is a unique social phenomenon of human beings. As long as human society exists, there is education.

(2) Historicity. In different societies or different historical stages of the same society, the nature, purpose and content of education are different. Education in different periods has its different historical forms and characteristics.

(3) the inheritance of education. The inheritance of education refers to the successive arrival of education in different historical periods, and the education in the latter period is the inheritance and development of the education in the previous period.

(4) The long-term nature of education. The long-term nature of the education of "planting trees in ten years and educating people in a hundred years" means that it takes a long time from the completion of an educational activity to the educational growth of individuals.

(5) relatively independent. Education is restricted by political and economic factors in a certain society, but as a social activity to cultivate people, education has its own laws and is relatively independent. In addition, the relative independence of education is also manifested in the fact that a specific educational form is not necessarily consistent with its social form at that time, but there is a phenomenon that education is ahead of or behind.

(6) productive education. The productive nature of education means that education is always a productive activity. Compared with other production activities, it has its own particularity in object, process and result.

(7) the nationality of education. The nationality of education means that education is carried out in a specific nation or country, and it has its own national characteristics in terms of ideas, systems, contents, methods and means, especially in teaching in its own language and imparting its own cultural knowledge.