Education in a broad sense refers to all activities that enhance people's knowledge and skills and influence people's ideology and morality. "Education" is regarded as a subsystem in the whole social system, which distributes and undertakes certain social functions.
Education in a narrow sense refers to the sublimation of individual spirit. This definition emphasizes the influence of social factors on individual development. Defining "education" from a personal point of view is often equivalent to an individual's learning or development process.
Pedagogy is a social science that studies human educational activities and their laws. It exists widely in human life, and the general law of education is revealed through the study of educational phenomena and problems.
Therefore, pedagogy came into being only when education developed to a certain stage, so it did not come into being and develop with human beings.
The main function of education
(1) The primary function of education is to promote individual development, including individual socialization and individualization.
(2) The most basic function of education is to influence the change of social talent system and economic development. Modern society emphasizes that the economic function of education mainly includes: providing a good background for the sustained and stable development of the economy; Improve the potential labor ability of the educated; Form ideas, attitudes and behaviors that adapt to modern economic life.
(3) The social function of education is to cultivate talents for the development of the country and serve the political and economic development of the country.
(4) The most far-reaching function of education is to influence the development of culture. Education should not only convey culture, but also meet the requirements of the continuation and renewal of culture itself.