The basic meaning of social education is divided into broad sense and narrow sense. Social education in a broad sense refers to various social activities aimed at consciously cultivating people and benefiting their physical and mental development; In a narrow sense, social education refers to the education of social members by schools, social and cultural institutions other than families and relevant social groups or organizations. Social education in a broad sense is almost the same as education in a broad sense. In fact, the earliest educational function in the history of education was realized through social education. In primitive society, before the formation of the family, the education of the younger generation was carried out in the joint work of all clan members. In daily social life, members of the clan commune taught the younger generation some simple production and life experiences through mutual words and deeds, or experienced elders taught them. Later, with the emergence of family and family education until the emergence of school education, social education in a broad sense began to gradually differentiate into three independent forms of education, namely, school education in a narrow sense, family education and social education.