No, education is a unique social phenomenon of human beings. Human education is social and purposeful, which is essentially different from animal instinct education. The essence of human education is a purposeful social activity to cultivate people. Mainly manifested in ① education is a unique social phenomenon of human beings. ② Education is to cultivate the educated consciously, purposefully and consciously. (3) There is a relationship among educators, educatees and educational influence.

The so-called "education" in animals (if it must be called education) is mainly to solve the adaptation and survival problems of individual animals in the natural environment, while human education is based on subjective consciousness from the beginning, not only for the survival and adaptation of individuals, but also for the needs of transforming the environment and developing themselves.

In a word, sociality and activity consciousness are the essential differences between human beings and animals, and also the essential differences between human educational activities and so-called "educational" activities of animals.