(1) Education is the process of transforming natural person into social person. This shows that education is a unique social phenomenon of human beings. Animals feed the next generation, but animals have always existed in the form of biological entities.
(2) Consciously, purposefully and consciously carry out education and training. This is the essential difference between education and other social phenomena, and other social phenomena also have an impact on human development. For example, social production also has a great influence on human development, but it does not consciously and purposefully affect human development.
(3) In the activity of cultivating people, there is a contradictory movement among educators, educatees and educational content (reflecting and embodying social requirements).
In addition, education also has social attributes such as eternity, historicity, inheritance, long-term, productivity, nationality and relative independence.