The concept of education refers to people's views on education and its relationship with other things. Specifically, it refers to people's understanding of educational elements such as educators, educational objects, educational contents, educational methods and their attributes and relationships, as well as people's views on the relationship between education and other things, and the views on the role, function and purpose of education derived from this.

The content of education

The information transmitted in educational activities, that is, educational content, mainly includes two aspects. On the one hand, it is the spiritual achievement of human civilization, which affects the spiritual world of the educated. Because human civilization is developing step by step, it must contain imperfect, defective and even wrong information, so some education can not bring positive effects, but may also bring negative effects. However, with the gradual development of human civilization, the previous shortcomings will be overcome. However, there may be new misunderstandings. For example, the cosmocentrism used to be the content of education for a long time, but it was later replaced by the heliocentrism, and now the heliocentrism has been abandoned. On the other hand, educators use their dominant position, sometimes a strong position, in educational activities to send inspiration, guidance information and reward and punishment information to the educated object, so as to influence their psychological state.