1. Viewpoint: Education comes from the survival instinct of animals.

2. Representatives: Percy Neng and Little Nuo.

3. Evaluation: The theory of biological origin is the first formally put forward theory of educational origin, which indicates that the origin of education has begun to shift from mythical explanation to scientific explanation. However, the theory of biological origin only discusses the origin of education from the perspective of external behavior without internal purpose, and fails to distinguish the qualitative difference between human educational behavior and animal rearing behavior. Therefore, the unscientific point of biological origin theory is that it does not grasp the purpose and sociality of human education, but discusses the origin of education from the perspective of biology.

(B) the theory of psychological origin

1. Viewpoint: Education originated from children's unconscious imitation of adults in daily life.

2. Representative: Meng Lu

3. Evaluation: The theory of psychological origin has certain progressive significance. Although seemingly different from the theory of biological origin, it is not far from the theory of biological origin. If the theory of psychological origin holds that education originated from children's unconscious imitation of adult behavior in primitive society, then this unconscious imitation is not acquired, but genetic, not cultural and social, innate rather than acquired, that is to say, instinctive, and this instinct is human instinct, not animal instinct, so it has certain progressive significance.