1. Education is a purposeful activity. As a purposeful activity, education plays a leading role in people's physical and mental development.

2. Education can promote people's all-round development. As a social activity to cultivate people, education aims at promoting people's all-round development.

3. Education is a necessary condition for the growth of the younger generation, and everything on which society depends. The object of education is the younger generation, whose growth is the main symbol of social development and the necessary condition for the existence and development of human society.

The conditions for education to play a leading role in people's development are: education is a purposeful activity, education can promote people's all-round development, and education is a necessary condition for the growth of the younger generation and social survival.

The essence of education:

The essence of education refers to the fundamental relationship between the internal elements of education and the fundamental characteristics of education as a social activity that distinguishes it from other social activities. As opposed to "educational phenomenon". Education is an activity to cultivate people. Education has existed since the beginning of human society, and its function is to transmit social production and life experience, promote human development and cultivate talents needed by society according to the requirements of a certain society.

The essential feature of education is a stable and universal feature that reflects the laws of things. The essence of education is the characteristic that runs through all education. As long as educational activities exist, they will always play a role.

Education is a unique form of transmitting experience in human society. Humans have language and writing. With the help of the information carrier function of language, human experience can exist not only in the individual system, but also outside the individual consciousness and independently of each individual.