There are also teachers and students in the field of insects. Survival competition and natural instinct are the basis of education. It is based on the natural instinct of survival and reproduction that animals impart "knowledge" and "skills" to young animals. This behavior is the original form and origin of education. Later, human education only inherited the existing educational forms in the animal kingdom and made it acquire new attributes. The founder of psychology believes that education originated from children's unconscious imitation of adults, and the main representative is American educator Monroe.
From the perspective of psychology, according to the primitive historical facts that there were no schools, teachers and textbooks in primitive society, Meng Lu thought that education originated from children's unconscious imitation of adults. In the textbook History of Education, he wrote that education in primitive society "generally adopts simple and unconscious imitation", while "primitive society has only the simplest form of education, but in the early days, the educational process has all the basic characteristics of the highest stage of education", that is, it is the initial education to admit that children unconsciously imitate adults.
According to the theory of labor origin, education originated from labor, which is the dialectical unity of social production needs and human development needs in the process of labor. Its representatives are mainly educational historians and educators such as Midinsky and Kailov of the former Soviet Union. In the book History of World Education, Midinsky pointed out that the origin of education can only be understood from Engels' famous principle of "labor creates man himself". Education originates from the unique productive labor of human beings.