First, the characteristics of the nature of education
Education is a unique phenomenon of human beings and has educational significance. This feature distinguishes human educational activities from animal learning activities. For example, dynamic activities such as mother cat teaching kittens to catch mice and gorilla learning to walk cannot be called education. Education is a process of consciously and purposefully cultivating the educated. This feature emphasizes the difference between education and other aimless, unconscious, accidental and instinctive activities, such as baby sucking, knee-jerk reflex and Newton's accidental discovery of apple landing, thus inventing the law of gravity. These accidental phenomena do not belong to education. There are three elements in educational activities: educators, educatees and educatees. These three elements are independent and interrelated, and they are the intermediary or bridge between educators and educatees. For example, self-study is not equal to education, because there is no educator, no educated person and no educational influence.
Two. conclusion
In a word, education only exists in human society, and there is no education among animals. The attributes of education include not only the above-mentioned essential attributes, but also social attributes, namely, eternity, historicity, inheritance, relative independence, long-term, class nature, nationality and productivity. For example, eternity emphasizes that people have education, and education and people are always together. Historicity means that the nature, purpose and content of education are different in different societies or different historical stages of a unified society. The purpose of slave social education is to cultivate ruling talents who oppress civilians, while modern social education is to cultivate all-round talents.