Explanation: The function of education determines that education is eternal.

The essential attribute of education:

Education is a social activity that cultivates people and shows essential attributes different from other things.

Attribute meaning:

1. Education is the process of transforming natural person into social person.

2. Education and cultivation of people are carried out purposefully and consciously.

In the process of educating people, there is a contradictory movement among educators, educatees and social requirements. As a result of this movement, educated people have undergone expected changes in body and mind according to the direction required by society and become people needed by society.

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Social attribute of education:

1. Education is eternal. Education is an eternal category of human society. Education is eternal because it has two social functions: one is to adapt the new generation to the existing productive forces and use it as a tool for production struggle; The second is to make the new generation adapt to the existing production relations and use it as a tool for class struggle in class society.

2. Education is historic and a class in a class society. Education is also a historical phenomenon. In different social fires or different historical periods of the same society, the nature, purpose and content of education are different, so education is historic. In a class society, education must reflect the interests, wishes and requirements of the ruling class, showing a distinct class nature.

3. Education is relatively independent. This independence is mainly manifested in: education has its own inheritance relationship; Education is influenced by other social ideologies; The imbalance between education and political and economic development.