A: There are different opinions about the origin of education, and a unified theoretical consensus has not yet been formed, but the main viewpoints are biological origin theory, psychological origin theory and labor origin theory.

(1) theory of biological origin. Biological originators believe that human education originated from the survival instinct activities of various animals in the animal kingdom, and education existed widely in the animal kingdom before the birth of human beings. Torno, Percy Neng and others are representatives who advocate the theory of biological origin.

The biological origin theorists of education attribute the origin of education to the instinctive behavior of animals, and to the innate biological behavior similar to animal instinct. The educational process is an instinctive process according to biological laws, completely denying the difference between humans and animals and the sociality of education.

(2) Theory of psychological origin. Psychologists believe that education originated from children's unconscious imitation of adults. The main representative of psychological origin theory is American educator Monroe.

The founder of educational psychology avoided the mistake of biological origin theory, and proposed that imitation is a new educational origin theory, which has its reasonable side. However, the mistake of this view is that all education is attributed to imitation behavior in the unconscious state, and it is still wrong to understand that all human activities are purposeful behaviors under the control of consciousness.

(3) Theory of labor origin. Marxist pedagogy holds that education originated from labor, specifically, it is produced from the dialectical unity of social production needs and human development needs in the process of labor through the scientific analysis of the history before and after the emergence of human ancestors and the manufacture of tools.