Mythology: It is the oldest view of human beings on the origin of education, and all religions hold this view. This view holds that education, like everything else, is created by a personified God (God or Heaven), and the purpose of education is to embody the will of God or Heaven and make people convert to God or obey Heaven. This view is fundamentally wrong and unscientific.
2. The biological origin theorists believe that human education originated from the survival instinct activities of various animals in the animal kingdom, and its main representatives are Torno, Spencer and Percy? It can wait. The origin theory of educational biology is the first formal theory about the origin of education in the history of pedagogy, and it is also the theory that put forward the academic problem of the origin of education earlier.
Psychologists believe that education originates from children's unconscious imitation of adults, and the main representative is American educator Monroe. This theory is regarded as a criticism of the origin theory of educational biology by academic circles.
4. The origin of labor theorists believe that education originated from labor and the dialectical unity of social production needs and human development needs in the process of labor, and its representatives are mainly educational historians and educators such as Midinsky and Kailov of the Soviet Union. The direct theoretical and methodological basis of labor origin theory is Engels' book The Role of Labor in the Transformation from Ape to Man.