It embodies the essential attribute of education and purposefully cultivates people's social activities.

Cultivating people's social activities purposefully is the fundamental feature that distinguishes education from other things. In other words, educational activities have a purpose, so it shows one of its characteristics: consciousness, while educational activities are social activities, which shows its second characteristic, consciousness.

Human education is social and purposeful, which is essentially different from animal instinct education. There is a relationship among educators, educated people and educational influence.

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Judging from the development history of human society and education, education emerged with the emergence of human society and is unique to human society. From the first day of its birth, education has already possessed the two most important and basic functions of transmitting social production experience and social life experience. People and society rely on productive labor to maintain their lives, and rely on education to transmit the experience of social production and social life.

Without education, no society can produce and reproduce material wealth and human beings themselves. It can be seen that education is a necessary condition for the existence and development of human society, and an indispensable means for the material materials of human society and the reproduction of human beings themselves. In this sense, education is a universal and eternal category of human social life, which is eternal.

The existence and development of society can not be separated from education for a moment. Education is an eternal cause, an eternal job and an eternal social phenomenon.

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