1, the concept is different: social education, broadly speaking, refers to social education activities that affect individual physical and mental development in parallel with school education and family education; In a narrow sense, it refers to all kinds of cultural life knowledge education activities carried out by social and cultural education institutions for teenagers and the public. School education is education in schools. Family education is generally regarded as the education of parents (first of all, parents) to their children in family life.

2. Different functions: social education is conducive to ideological and moral education for students, increasing knowledge, developing ability, enriching spiritual life and developing hobbies and specialties. School education determines the level and nature of individual socialization and is an important foundation of individual socialization. The role of family education is reflected in promoting individual development, supporting school education and promoting social civilization.