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.
Educational essence
Marxist pedagogy holds that education is a social phenomenon and a unique activity of human beings.
Education is a unique social phenomenon in human society. Although there are similar phenomena of "education" and "teaching" and "learning" in the animal kingdom, especially in the higher animal kingdom, these two seemingly similar phenomena are essentially different.
1. The so-called "education" and "teaching" of animals are completely spontaneous behaviors based on survival instinct, not acquired behaviors.
2. Animals have no language and do not have the ability to accumulate individual experience and pass it on to others.
The result of so-called animal education is nothing more than that of small animals adapting to the environment, maintaining life and living independently, while the result of human education is far more than that.