1. Family education refers to the education of parents or family elders to the younger generation or family members, which is carried out on the premise of purposeful and conscious. Family education can also be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. Family education in a broad sense refers to the purposeful and conscious influence of family members other than themselves, which usually lasts for a long time or even affects a lifetime. Family education in a narrow sense refers to a person's purposeful and conscious education by his parents or family elders before he becomes an adult.

2. School education refers to a teaching activity with training objectives, management system and teaching content, which is conducted by specialized teachers in a fixed place.

3. Social education can also be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. Social education in a broad sense refers to all education that affects personal physical and mental development, while social education in a narrow sense refers to all cultural education except school education.

4. Formal education Formal education means that educational activities have been divorced from social production and life and become a special form of social practice, with fixed educators, educatees, educational places and relatively standardized educational content. School education belongs to this form.

5. Informal education Informal education refers to the primitive form of combining educational activities and existing forms with social life and production. There are no stable educators and educated people, and there are no fixed educational places and standardized educational contents. Education in primitive society belongs to this state.