1. Education aims at promoting human development and social progress, and cultivating people's social activities by imparting knowledge and experience. The whole process of training a new generation to prepare for social life mainly refers to the process of training children, teenagers and young people in schools.

Broadly speaking, all activities to enhance people's knowledge and skills and improve people's ideological and moral level are education. Education in a narrow sense mainly refers to school education, which means that educators exert purposeful, planned and organized influence on the body and mind of the educated according to the requirements of a certain society (or class) and cultivate them into people needed by a certain society (or class).